2024 Goals - Review

Well, I didn’t blog at all last year other than my first post. I will try to be better about writing at least a few times this year. Anyways, here is a recap of my 2024 goals.

Financial

• Max out Roth IRA, 401(k) and HSA accounts
  • Completed
• Have a savings rate of at least 40%
  • Almost, savings rate was 35% in 2024.
• Purchase another rental property
  • Did not complete, but we are in the process of searching for one currently. May have a post on this sometime this year if it comes to fruition.

Personal

• Travel at least 3 times out of state (or country)
  • St Lucia (Honeymoon)
  • Alabama (Visiting family)
  • New York (Babymoon)
• Complete 4 mountain bike races
  • Only completed 2 this year.
• Workout at least 3 times a week
  • Hah!
• Read at least 8 books
  • Including my professional development books I hit this goal. Need to work on being better at reading this year, have plenty of books on my want to read list.

Professional

• Read at least 3 professional development books
  • I read 2
• Complete more code reviews
  • 25% code reviews
• Attend a development conference
  • Did not complete
• Write more tests for the code I am shipping
  • Completed
• Improve performance
  • Hard to gauge, but believe I did.
• Reduce bugs
  • Again, hard to gauge. I did work on fixing quite a few existing bugs, so I’ll count this as completed.

And the biggest thing to happen in 2024… we had a baby girl! What an amazing blessing she has been, we love her so much!