My Goals for 2024 (Update #5 - June)

Happy June everyone! I hope you are making progress towards your goals!

It was a busy month for me at work as I am learning a lot every single day in my new position. After 4 weeks, I'm finally feeling like I'm slowly understanding and have a grasp on what's going on. It should get easier and easier as I go along.

Continue reading below for my 5th update to my 2024 goals!

1) Personal Development Goals

For my personal development goals, I want to challenge myself to do new things and continue to grow!

a)?(ON TRACK, 4,100 minutes) Exercise for 10,000 minutes on Peloton (excluding walking)

For 2024, I want to focus on more active exercising through Peloton. I set a goal of 10,000 minutes on Peloton excluding walking classes. This means that I will need to do strength training, cycling, or running for at least 30 minutes every day.

I exercised even more in May to now be back on my pace to my goal. I exercised for 1000 minutes in April!

I will keep up the good work!

b) (ON TRACK: 7.5 pounds) Lose 15 pounds from 188.5 lbs

In May, I started at 183.3 pounds and I lost 2 more pounds to be at 181. I ate a lot healthier in May, so that contributed to my weight loss.

c)?(BEHIND): 10 paid coaching clients and 4 paid speaking opportunities

For 2024, I want to double the number of paid coaching clients as well as the number of paid presentations from 2023. To help with getting these opportunities, I've been sharing weekly tips for shy introverts (more updates below).

In May, I didn't have any speaking opportunities. However in June, I will be officiating my friend's wedding! I need to get my presentation ready!

Previous presentations:

2/8: MC for the Applied Materials Lunar New Year Festival

2/21: How to Build Confidence for Networking at San Jose State University

2/26: My Public Speaking and Content Creation journey for Theta Tau Rho Delta at University of Nevada, Reno

3/14: My Career Journey at the Piedmont Middle School Career Day

4/11: My Career Journey for the Applied Materials Momentum Fund.

If you know of any organization that would benefit from presentations about LinkedIn, content creation, or building confidence as an introvert, let me know!

d)?ONGOING: Learn Japanese (and then another language)

In 2024, I am continuing to learn Japanese on Duolingo. This month, I learned words and phrases related to the news, chores, people's jobs, business, cooking, hospital visits, and celebrations!

2) Professional Development Goals

I want to continue to gain new skills and knowledge to grow professionally!

a)?Continue to learn in my job

Now that I am starting a new position at Applied Materials, I'm going to stop focusing on learning data analysis, Python, and Excel scripting and focus more on learning for my new role!

I have a lot to learn about chemistry and how different layers are deposited to make a chip. I also have to learn how to lead a new program, how to lead various functions to take customer requirements, come up with new ideas, test them in the lab, get feedback from the customer, create a Bill of Materials, and deliver multiple systems to our customers!

I'm super excited for this new role and I wanted the challenge of learning all of these things!

3) Content Creation Goals

For 2024, to be more consistent with creating content on LinkedIn, I have been posting weekly tips for shy introverts to build confidence! You will see my posts at 7AM Pacific time every Monday! Make sure to follow my hashtag #stephenhelpsyou and #shyintroverttips.

Here are my posts from May!

Week 19: How to Succeed in Your First Job

Week 20: Build Confidence to Start Posting on LinkedIn

Week 21: How to Be Professional while Posting

Week 22: How to Connect with Someone More Senior than You

How are you progressing towards your goals? Share in the comments!