Q1 Review and Q2 Targets

“I’d shoot for the moon but I’m too busy gazing at stars." Not Afraid, Eminem

My first quarter of foraying into personal OKRs is complete. I absolutely loved having these OKRs and use my OKR document as the centralizing piece of my personal life. Without further adieu, a review of Q1 and a look forward to Q2.

2019 Q1 Objectives - Review

• Put myself out there – this was my most successful and biggest failure of an objective. I was committed to writing more (Twitter/this website) and doing a stand-up comedy class. The stand-up comedy class was one of the best things I have ever done - extremely challenging and very rewarding. However, the time impact of attending class and preparing sapped the time I would like to have devoted to writing. 
• Get my finances in order – closed out a lot of my tax stuff and started the house buying process in the UK. Not a perfect result, but overall pleased with where I ended up.
• Epic Productivity – this was my most successful OKR as I pushed my body to new physical boundaries (completed a 3 mile open water swim, 60 mile bike ride, and multiple 15 mile + runs), completed a 5-day fast and got significantly better at skiing. I failed at doing any coding but hoping to rectify that this quarter. 

What stands out most in the past 3 months:

• Stand-up comedy class and performance - an experience I would recommend for everyone. Check out Hoopla in London if you are interested.
• The power of habit - I made working out a daily habit and it enabled me to hit all my goals. I didn't make writing a habit but rather a big beast that I needed the perfect conditions to even "start". This was dumb. 
• Favorite books - Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins, Mindset by Carol Dweck, and Endure by Alex Hutchinson
• Favorite new things - discovering 2 new podcats that I love - Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard and The Moment with Brian Koppelman. Both are great interviewers and tackle a plethora of issues from their unique vantage points. I also have been experimenting with a meat-free keto diet and have been using Keyto to track my ketosis levels - great tool so far. 

2019 Q2 OKRs 

• Work on my writing - after the epic fail that was Q1 in the writing department, I'm placing a renewed focus on writing this quarter (without any comedy). I've started writing 500 words every morning about any topic just to get in the habit of writing. I'm going to focus more on putting my writing out there with twitter and this website. My goal this quarter is consistency (habit) over quality.
  
• Continue Financial Planning - The main goals for this quarter are to (1) close out the home buying process; and (2) close out all my American accounts and consolidate all my accounts in the UK. I'm also considering giving up my American citizenship, so I'll see where that path takes me. Blog post on the topic coming for sure.
  
• Personal Improvement -  In line with my writing focus, this is the quarter that I want to put together my personal mission, vision and values.
  

What I am most excited about in the next 3 months:

• Seeing friends and family all over the world - I've got trips to LA, San Francisco, Barcelona and Ireland with some of my best friends and then close it out with a family wedding in Poland.
• Triathlon - I'll be doing my first full triathlon ever at the end of June (this one). I have previously done a sprint triathlon in 2014, albeit very slowly. 
• Personal values creation - I think this will be a fun exercise. We did something similar at work recently and I think writing these concepts down really crystallizes them. 
• Launching our first international country at work - live with our first customers in our first international country by the end of Q2. Going global.