My professional life requires that I create and provide roadmaps, recommendations and detailed designs for a large financial institution. I released during the end of year holiday break that I have never documented my personal roadmap. My first attempt is to articulate a high-level set of goals of which I might detail in a later post.

The Goals

I thought it would make sense to create ceatgories on areas that I want to improve. Below is my attempt to articulate my goals for the next twelve months in their corresponding categories:

Community & Family

• Grow the Elastic Dallas Community participation by 10%.
• Go on dates with my wife and achieve a minimum bi-weekly cadence.
  • Since this might be labor intensive to track and dilute the importance by tracking, I will ask my wife to provide a pass/fail at the end of the year.
• Attend “Feed the Community” events atleast once a quarter.
• Create a blog post atleast once a month on codeless.me.
• Work with my son and daughter to revitalize our 1999 Miata.
  • Repair hail damaged body panels
  • Wrap body panels with voted upon color. Hoping for Riveria blue
• Take the family camping and hiking at a Texas State Park
• Play a board/card game atleast once a month a month
• Expand holiday lighting animations to orchestrate a scene.
• Attend family centric conventions such as the following:
  • PAX South
  • Dreamhack
  • Minefaire
  • BrickLive

Knowledge

• Aquire 5/10 available Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certifications.
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
  • AWS Certified Security - Specialty
• Modernize and update my homelab infrastructure.
• Migrate existing deployed applciations from Azure to AWS. Reduce costs by 30% for hosted solutions.
• Migrate homelab applications from virtual machine to Kubernetes.
• Read the following:
  • Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor
  • Never Split the Difference,“Execution: The Disciple of Getting Things Done.

Physical & Mental Health

• Complete the C25k and C210k training programs.
• Run an official 5k and 10k events.
• Participate in a 30 day challenge to eat a plant based diet (vegan) in an attempt to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol.
• Take a family trip to Key West, Florida as part of larger goals.
• Read the following:
  • The Land: Monsters
  • Fate of the Fallen
  • Babylon's Ashes
  • Persepolis Rising
  • Tiamat's Wrath
  • Auberon.

Stretch Goals

• Run a half marathon.
• Eat a plant based diet for 80% of the year (292 days).
• Take the family to Japan or Spain as part of larger goals.
• Study and aquire the GCIH certification.
• Sutdy and aquire the CISSP certification.
• Enroll in a local university to continue my education.

Final Thoughts

Since this is my first attempt I ask that you be kind, but provide constructive feedback. I will follow-up periodically throughout the year to update on progress.