Around this time each year, I start to create a final punch list of all the things I’m hoping to accomplish before the next year begins. If you aren’t familiar with a punch list, it’s a document that lists all the tasks that need to be completed before a project can be considered finished. Sometimes this kind of end-of-year list just involves wrapping up my annual goals, but this year I decided to create a list of things that feels a bit more comprehensive.
Here are all the things I have on my list to wrap up before the end of 2024:
- Go on a work trip in late October to Arizona
- Replace my laptop
- Finish my class on coaching clients with ADHD
- Get through the election
- Finish some revisions and submit a final report for a project at work
- Take a trip to Los Angeles over the Thanksgiving week to see some family
- Complete my remaining annual goals including:
- Reading 24 books each month
- Reading the remaining books on my 24 books in 2024 list
- Completing my boxset challenge
- Completing my monthly TBR videos
- Completing my monthly alphabet challenge to keep reading books I already own
- Completing 20k minutes on the Peloton app
- Completing 1800+ coaching experience hours
- Offer feedback on the submissions to my co-edited collection on coaching in higher ed
- Wrap up 2024 content including:
- 10 podcast episodes
- 10 blog posts
- 4 YouTube videos
- 2 monthly newsletters
- Launch my new website
- Launch the PM by Design standalone website
- Wrap up 2024 programming including:
- Finishing 2 coach training classes
- Finishing Slow Hustle
- Grading all coach training assessments
- Updating my course completion records for coach training
- Find out who our new chancellor will be at my institution
- Complete fall commencement activities
- Finish my 16 week run/walk plan (I’m currently wrapping up week 6)
- Prep 2025 programs and services over my winter break retreat including:
- Updating the Prolific events calendar
- Creating course shells for all 2025 programs
- Adding content creation tasks to Asana
- Drafting my coach training syllabi
- Drafting the PM by Design syllabi
- Making progress on a Top Secret Project that I hope to wrap up by the end of the calendar year
What’s on your punch list for the remainder of 2024?