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 Adriaan Bouman

Adriaan Bouman

@adriaanb

Dev/hacker from Holland living in Barcelona, ⛏️ on different side projects.
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What are your personal goals for 2021?
Adriaan Bouman
@adriaanb

Someone wrote some advice for a morning routine a couple of weeks back. And that person had the rule 'no input before output'. Which is a nice and not too hard goal.

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What are your personal goals for 2021?
Adriaan Bouman
@adriaanb

Thanks for the advice Marc. User feedback and revenue are great motivators and I have to focus more on that. I end up tweaking things way too much and need to stop this :)

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What are your personal goals for 2021?
Adriaan Bouman
@adriaanb

Love the calm wake-up routine. Is there an app for this? Would really need something to calm me down...go straight into online mode when I wake up.

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No app. I just sit on the couch with a cup of coffee and a notebook.

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Adriaan Bouman
@adriaanb

Someone wrote some advice for a morning routine a couple of weeks back. And that person had the rule 'no input before output'. Which is a nice and not too hard goal.

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What are your personal goals for 2021?
Adriaan Bouman
@adriaanb

This year I started kettle-bell training and I am doing 3 day workouts and one rest day. After a week I found a routine which I really like: warm up > kettle-bell workout > core training workout > stretching > 5 minute laying down mindfulness/conscious breathing. Keep continuing this for as long as I like it.

I stopped drinking alcohol completely and smoke a little of my homegrown CBD-weed in the evenings.

The last 6 months I haven't been studying modular synths that much, mainly because the money I could spend on it dried up and was a bit overwhelmed by it. So, I decided to take things easy and want to spend 30-60 minutes a day without forcing myself too much and only buy modules I really need.

Last year I haven't been hiking or surfing. So, this year I want to do a +10 day long distance hike and multiple surf trips with my girlfriend.

Work-wise, I want to launch quicker and more often. Most of my projects has been +3 months projects and kind of failed or lost interest in them. I hope WIP can help me stay focused and motivated to keep on pushing things forward. This year, I want to make at least 2K MRR, so I don't have to fallback on freelance gigs anymore.

I also have some ideas I would love to work on, but seem a bit out of reach from a business perspective (no business model) and lots of time. Hopefully, I can work on them when I have some recurring revenue. Let's see :)

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Some great goals here!

One thing I can share about losing interesting in projects after 3+ months is that I felt and to some extent still feel the same way. It was with BetaList that I decided to push through the less exciting parts and now I've been running it for 10+ years! So it's certainly possible.

I've also learned what keeps me motivated to keep doing. They are customer feedback (people are using the product and have an easy way to reach me), and revenue.

So to me a new project feels like a race where I try to get consistent user feedback and/or revenue, before the novelty of the new project wears off.

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Adriaan Bouman
@adriaanb

Thanks for the advice Marc. User feedback and revenue are great motivators and I have to focus more on that. I end up tweaking things way too much and need to stop this :)

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