Checking In

Today marks four months of daily posts. I thought that I'd take the opportunity to go through the goals that I've set for myself and give an update on each of them. Things haven't been progressing as fast as I first imagined they would but they are slowly moving forward. By now I was hoping to have several videos released and be starting to promote my YouTube channel, it will happen, it's just not going to be as easy as I first thought.

Here are the goals that I have set myself so far:

1. Start Blog - Completed 19 July 2018 
2. Start YouTube Channel - Built but no videos as yet 
3. 70,000 steps each week - my average steps since getting the fitbit is roughly 47,000 steps per week. Over the last three months it is just under 54,000 per week, with the last month averaging just over 70,000 per week. I'm not going to mark this one off until a full year has passed and then I'll just look at the last 6 months.
4. 10,000 subscribers within the first year - 4 subscribers and I still haven't launched the channel yet.
5. Earn $1000 in one month by second year - $0 biggest month
6. Earn $5000 per month by the fifth year - $0 avg per month
7. Meet YouTubers who have inspired me - 0 met
   
8. Weigh less than 90kg by Christmas - currently 107kg. This goal won't be achieved by Christmas but I still want to achieve it.
9. Shoot intro videos by end of August - Completed 14 September
10. Publish 20 videos in a year - 0 videos published
11. Be a better Husband and Dad - I think I've been a better Dad and I've been doing more house work so maybe a better Husband too.
12. Motocamp to Bourke - Nothing planned
13. Adventure Motorcycle Training by Oct 2019 - Nothing planned
14. Burn an average of 4.6K calories each day- achieved one week but then the vertigo struck again.

So there is still a lot to look forward to and I fully plan to try and meet all of these goals if at all possible. I've been watching some really successful YouTube channels lately and some of them are still making great money from YouTube and also have some great sponsors that help them out. I'd love to get to the stage where I could work part time at my current job and part time on YouTube. Who knows, maybe one day I can just do YouTube and nothing else.

I noticed today that I forgot to tally up the previous week in my "Weighing In" post on Saturday. I've updated the post now but the figures for the week were:
Total steps this week: 51,360
Average daily calories burnt: 3,713
Not really that bad for a week of not trying at all.



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