For 12 years or so I have sat down to map out my year. From personal goals to professional I have found that writing out the things I want to accomplish in a year publicly helps me stick to my plan. It also is nice to reflect on where I was a year ago.

Often, I find that my areas of focus change and it’s fun to look back and see what was important to me the prior year and what is important to me now.

2021 was a good year for me. I exceeded my own expectations in a few areas and had some major wins personally and professionally. More importantly, I saw myself change in good ways that weren’t necessarily part of the plan. In this new year, I am hoping for more growth in all areas. But first, let’s recap 2021.

2021 Recap

(results in Bold)

Self Improvement

Improve sleeping habits Calm app definitely helps me get to sleep faster, now I just need to get in bed earlier.

Drink more water Consistently drank about 1/2 gallon a day.

Continue to work out regularly. Did a good job with this once I got my basketball hoop together

Choose primary physician Got a number, need to make the call

Set and stick to daily social media limits. Failed miserably

Read 12 books Bought books, read none of them

Step out of my comfort zone more It’s a pandemic so I wasn’t in the streets but made a lot of new contacts online/via phone in places I wouldn’t normally allow myself to.

Work on Spanish regularly Failed miserably

Career

Complete at least 4 more courses towards Master’s. Accomplished. 5 actually

Shoot 4 Big professional shots I shot 2 and 2 fell in my lap through school.

Continue to network Huge strides here.

Connect, and follow up. Reach out without need. Help where I can. Had a great year here

Writing

Keep running award and movie lists all year. List is running. Did not do the 2020 awards as planned. Need to release my lists at least. lol

Get back to writing for external publications. I did. Fell off of one completely but still have the other.

Grow the Brand

BibsCorner.com

Huge milestones were hit on the site this year but I can go bigger.

Over 5362 views on the website for the year. (2020 total) Hit 6116 despite barely posting.

Over 10,000 views (Big goal)

Over 864 views on a single post (current best) Hit 1063 on a post.

Over 3372 visitors to the site for the year (2020 total) Hit 3542 visitors

5000 visitors to the site

Over 1500 visitors reaching the site through search engines (808 in 2020) Hit 1302 visits through search engines. Not the goal but a big leap nonetheless

Post more indie movie news on the site.

• 12 posts at the worst Only 3 posts. School derailed my goals here
• 24 posts preferable

Bib’s Corner Podcasts

Cross 17,000 streams on Bib’s Corner: Sports (keeping pace from 2020) 19,957 Between Bib’s Corner Sports and the Mavs Outsiders

Cross 25,000 (Big Goal)

Cross 2,000 streams on Bib’s Corner: Film (Just started, still growing that side) Only hit 472 here. Was not consistent with the content at all.

Cross 5,000 (Big Goal)

Bring on 1 guest per month on each podcast, minimum. EW

Secure 10 major interviews between both podcasts. EW

Reach out to and secure sponsors. Did reach out to a few but more importantly was approached by a network who made us an offer we couldn’t refuse.

Youtube (I did the youtube thing for like 5 minutes and didn’t like it. That is not the medium for me.)

100 Subscribers

500 Subscribers

1000 Subscribers (Major Goal)

2000 watch hours

4000 watch hours (Major Goal)

Post at least 50 videos

Post 100 videos

Bonus

Got my first official IMDB credit

Made Central Track’s list of “Must Follows” on Mavs Twitter

2022 Mission

Self Improvement

Improve sleeping habits

Drink more water

Continue to work out regularly

Cook more

Choose primary physician

Less mindless scrolling on social media

Read 12 books

Step out of my comfort zone more

Work on Spanish regularly

Style upgrade (drip or drown)

Make more time for the people that matter

Career

Secure the Master’s

Secure full-time entertainment industry job

Hit minimum salary goal

Continue to network

Connect, and follow up. Reach out without need. Help where I can.

Writing

Keep a running award and movie lists all year.

Start a running TV awards list all year

Get back to doing movie reviews

Start making recommendation lists on the website

Post awards winners for 2020 (long overdue)

Post awards winners for 2021, bring back guest judges

(Ambitious goal) Get back to screenwriting

Grow the Brand

BibsCorner.com

I did very little but accomplished a lot last year. Based on that, this year could be huge if I actually put the work in.

Over 5362 views on the website for the year. (2021 total)

Over 10,000 views (real goal)

Over 20,000 views (big goal)

Over 1063 views on a single post (current best)

Over 3542 visitors to the site for the year (2021 total)

5000 visitors to the site (real goal)

Over 10,000 visitors to the site (big goal)

Over 1500 visitors reaching the site through search engines (1302 in 2020)

Post more indie movie news on the site.

• 12 posts at the worst
• 24 posts preferable

Monthly recaps of everything I’ve done the past month (reviews, podcast episodes, podcast appearances)

Podcasts

Cross 40,784 streams on the Mavs Outsiders Podcast (25,000 new streams)

Cross 55,784 (Big Goal)

Cross 1,000 streams on Bib’s Corner podcast (moving movie content over)

Cross 5,000 (Big Goal)

Bring on 1 guest per month on each podcast, minimum.

Make a guest appearance on a podcast every month

Reach out to and secure sponsors.

Social Media

Bibscorner Twitter account to 10,000 followers

Clean up accounts

Become proficient in making graphics

Become consistent on at least one other app

Bonus

More IMDB credits (Producer credit is the big goal)

Accomplish additional offline Mavs Outsiders goals

I am not worrying about formatting this a certain way to look nice. This is mostly for me.

Thanks again to anyone who took the time to check this out. Here’s to you reaching all of your goals this year as well.

-Bibs