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2026 Goals: The Stats

2026 Goals: The Stats

Current goal status is:

Status Count
āœ… Green (complete) 21
🟔 Yellow (in progress) 39
⚪ No color (not started) 35
Strikethrough (dropped) 5
šŸ”“ Red 2 Total 102

Body

āœ… Try to add other oils back to diet
āœ… Improved Balance
āœ… Lower Caffeine Intake
🟔 Improved Wrist functionality
🟔 Improve Grip Strength
🟔 Measure Breathwork success and cardio improvement
⚪ Try to add Xanthan Gum back to diet
⚪ Flexible enough to throw some good high kicks
⚪ Improved upper and lower body strength
⚪ Be able to sit cross legged with knees near the ground
⚪ Comfortable Standing Forward Fold
⚪ Take a functional mobility course
⚪ Feel more confident being photographed
⚪ Address all real vanity projects
⚪ Get Blood work done two times this year

Breath

āœ… Complete a breathwork class
⚪ Nauli Stomach vacuums (Rickson Style)
⚪ Practice Ecstatic Breath

Buddhism

āœ… Begin Ngondro
🟔 Daily meditation
⚪ Learn Classical Tibetan basics

Career

āœ… Get a good raise at work
āœ… 1:1 Coaching: 3 clients or make 10k
āœ… Velvet Rope Policy
āœ… Curate Capsule Wardrobe for Work Travel
🟔 Fully launch Center of Excellence across the company
🟔 3 small entrepreneurial projects
🟔 Solve 3 "Cold Cases" at work
🟔 Utilize the Team Like Irregulars
🟔 Work outside my house 1 day a week
Develop 3 GPT's
Study Up on AI Governance

Community

āœ… Host 3 parties
🟔 Minimum monthly chat with good guy friends
🟔 Find 2 people who need mentorship
⚪ Host a Fight Night or Famous Fight Rewatch Night

Diet

āœ… Learn 5 more meals
⚪ Make Sauerkraut

Dog

🟔 Low reactivity when guests enter home
🟔 5 More Commands

Fortune

āœ… Max retirement savings
šŸ”“ Pay off HELOC
šŸ”“ Begin Building the Warchest

Home

āœ… Be even sweeter and more engaged with Mary
āœ… Get a Family Doctor this year
āœ… Improve automation of personal tasks
🟔 Create systems to keep desk, bathroom cabinet, and bedside table tidy
⚪ Office Aesthetic on point

Learning

āœ… Another Sex Education Course
āœ… Improve Presentation Skills
⚪ A legit Pain Cert
⚪ Another Neuroscience course or book

Martial Arts

āœ… 6 takedowns and flow between
🟔 Leg lock system knowledge
🟔 Razor Sharp Mount Control and Finishing
🟔 Razor sharp Headlock sequence (BB level)
🟔 Tai Chi Push Hands Jams
🟔 High-level Guard Passing
🟔 Improve as a Coach
🟔 Just a little Muay Thai (10 classes)
🟔 Study 3 jiu jitsu instructionals
⚪ Tai Chi Movements

Memorization

🟔 Memorize 2 Chapters of Magic Dance
⚪ Memorize Dart Sutta

Mind

🟔 Crush creative resistance at all turns
🟔 Regularly play Awareness Games
🟔 Improve Dead Reckoning ability
Construct a 50 location Mind Palace
Situational Awareness Drills

Movement

🟔 Do a handstand for at least 15 seconds
🟔 Complete a KB program
⚪ Pelvic Floor strengthening
⚪ FRC Self-Study Course Completion
⚪ Learn to sneak

Music

🟔 Jazz piano intro class completion
🟔 Write 5 Ableton songs
🟔 Consistent Piano practice
🟔 Harmonica basics
⚪ Lead Sheet competency on Piano
⚪ Play "Pop music" songs with chords
⚪ Speaking Voice Lessons
⚪ Singing Voice Lessons
⚪ Complete Konnokol Class
Beginner Finger Drums Course Completion

Play / Arts

🟔 Develop 10 distinct character voices
🟔 Once a quarter, spend 30 minutes with one art piece
🟔 Improve art-critique language and terminology
⚪ Learn to pick the locks in my home
⚪ Learn Hot Hand
⚪ Learn manual hair-raising

RPGs

āœ… A lot of Arden Vul
āœ… 10 TTRPG sessions

Reading

🟔 Sci-fi Reading: Vote for Hugo!
🟔 Nietzsche, Dewey, Foucault
⚪ Slush Reading
⚪ Read 3 great books

Self

🟔 Dress for success
⚪ Improve my homewear

Writing

āœ… Do Morning Pages for 3 months
🟔 Write 20 poems
⚪ Publish regularly on Substack
⚪ Publish a Poetry Chap book

2026 Goals: Mid-Year Update

2026 Goals: Mid-Year Update