2020: New Year, New Deglutenizer

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Happy New Year! It’s now 2020, and I’m working on my game plan for this year. I have some new goals for my personal life, professional life, and for my Deglutenizer content. Don’t miss the video above for a quick Q&A about the new year.

So it’s a little cliché to use the beginning of a new year to review your progress on your goals and reassess, reevaluate, and plot new courses to reach your destination, but there’s also no better time to do it. That’s what I’ve been working on with my personal goals, my career goals, and my intentions for my content this year. I didn’t make as much progress last year as I was hoping, so I know I can make a choice for setting goals this year:

Make my goals more realistic and achievable. I can phrase this year’s intended achievements to work with my expectations for time limitations, funding capabilities, my personal skills and abilities, etc.
Extend my goals beyond any limitations and constantly chip away at the work necessary to eventually meet and exceed them.

Honestly, when setting objectives for myself, I like to combine these strategies. I set my end goal first, then break down the steps to achieve that big goal into smaller achievements like a video game. I also like to tell people what I hope to achieve when setting goals for accountability. Astrology is a load of baloney, but my Aries self loves proving people wrong when they tell me I can’t do something.

Without further ado, let me tell you my plans for 2020!

Work

I’m working my way up the ladder at work! My goal at work is to keep absorbing new skills and gaining access to new programs. I want to make myself as valuable as possible to either transfer within the company, or to get the best offer possible from a similar company when I move to Tampa after this season…

hopefully. My GM wants me to stay through the end of next season, so I also want to be valuable enough where whatever offer my company makes to keep me through the 2021 season, the company and I see the agreement as mutually beneficial. I really want to leave where I currently live sooner rather than later, though, and Port St. Lucie isn’t exactly commutable from Tampa.

Deglutenizer Content

I have so many things I want to do with The Deglutenizer. This year, I’d like to start earning enough money from my content for a net zero balance with the cost of producing the content. I know that means I’m going to have to regularly self-promote across multiple platforms to grow my followership and support base.

As far as my actual content goes, I do want to produce some travel content when I get some time off from work. I may be able to take some weekend trips around Florida during baseball season, and I will be traveling back and forth a few times when I finally do move to Tampa. I also want to feature more variety in the recipes I make in videos and on streams, and maybe do some non-food content like PC-building for when I update the computer I use to produce my content.

Finally, I am hoping to update my equipment with more cameras, a semi-permanent streaming rig, lavalier mics, and some studio lighting to improve the quality of the content I create. It will be an ongoing process throughout the year, but I expect that each change will be a marked improvement over what I had before.

Personal

So clearly my biggest personal goal this year is to make the move to Tampa. I love the Tampa area, the cost of living is better, and it’s more metropolitan without being a soul-sucking major city like Orlando or Miami. I don’t know how the gluten-free eats are in Tampa yet, but I’m looking forward to the experience.

Besides that, I want to finally have a cat again, and buy her all the toys she could possibly ever want. And buy myself a few toys like an electric smoker so I can start barbecuing all the delicious meats I could possibly ever want…

But I’m trying to eat less meat. I recently saw The Game Changers on Netflix about vegan athletes, and it raised some interesting points. I’m already largely cutting beef out of my diet, but if I could be vegetarian most of the time and only eat meat one or two meals per week, it would probably be healthier for me. I mean, at the age of 30, I’m on a beta-blocker. I should be looking at more heart-healthy options with my diet. I’m still not entirely giving up fried chicken, though. You can pry fried chicken out of my cold dead hands.

Otherwise, though, most of my personal goals are just to appear to be a responsible adult. Pay off some stuff to fix my credit, be seen going for a morning run by my neighbors (but not let them see me dying after I turn the corner), give away stuff I bake instead of shoveling it into my own face, and try to find some work-life balance where I can maintain my relationships with friends while I get that gluten-free bread.

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