{"id":3378,"date":"2020-12-19T14:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T04:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2020-12-28T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T05:14:02","slug":"my-fail-list-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2020\/12\/19\/my-fail-list-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"My Fail List of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last few years, I was in this place where I felt like I was doing everything right and everything was going fine for me in my career. <\/p>\n

I've got a great job - I worked at one of the largest tech companies in the country. I was working with smart people, making an impact and delivering business results. I was also getting a hang of public speaking, and had spoken internationally multiple times a year. My writing had reached and helped tens of thousands of people in the tech industry. <\/p>\n

And then I thought, is that it? Is that all I could be doing? How come I didn't feel like I was learning and growing then? <\/p>\n

But then I realised, I wasn't challenging myself enough. I was only doing things that I was proficient in. I applied to speak at events that I knew I'd be selected for. I wrote for publications that would accept my content. I understood what they were looking for, and wrote just that.<\/p>\n

So in 2020, I decided to take a slightly different approach and intentionally start doing things that I knew I'd fail. <\/p>\n

And here is the result. My fail list of 2020. <\/p>\n

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  1. I launched an online Career Development Program<\/a> for Women in Tech and had zero signups. <\/li>\n
  2. I applied to speak at a few major events like TedX and didn't hear anything back. <\/li>\n
  3. More than ten of my medium articles<\/a> were rejected by popular publications. <\/li>\n
  4. I failed to reach more audience using a different mean than writing. (My YouTube channel<\/a> looks very sad.)<\/li>\n
  5. I stopped writing in my Gratitude Journal after a week.<\/li>\n
  6. I didn't learn any new professional skill.<\/li>\n
  7. I didn't do sketchnotes of my books<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. I have more than five projects that I started, but didn't finish.<\/li>\n
  9. I read less than 5 books properly this year. <\/li>\n
  10. Out of 9 goals that I set for myself in 2020, I achieved 2, failed 4, and deferred 3. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And you know what, I am ok. In fact, I am more than ok. It shows that there are more things I can do and learn and be better at. <\/p>\n

    Here is to a new year and to never giving up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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