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what's up everybody how's it going in

this video i want to share with you the

four

goals or new year's resolutions that i

have

for myself for 2021. i know that a lot

of people

don't like new year's resolutions they

always say like if you have something

that you want to do to start doing it

now and i actually

agree with them these are things that i

have kind of started working on

but i do think that there is a merit to

having some sort of mental list of

things that you want to accomplish

especially

in the new year it just gives you a

sense of purpose a sense of you know

direction

and to be honest this is something that

i wanted to do last year i wanted to do

a video like this

i didn't do it for many reasons but this

year i've decided to do it

keep myself accountable and the goal

will maybe be to react to this video

a year from now so a year from now i'll

try to do reaction video to this video

to see if i actually hit my goals

if i actually accomplished and stuck to

my new year's resolutions

and you will keep me accountable so

without further ado

let's jump into the first goal or new

year's resolution

and it is for me to get a haircut

obviously i'm kidding but seriously like

my hair is starting to get

so long like it keeps coming out of the

sides here

i need to get a haircut i'm kind of like

scared to go get a haircut right now but

i probably

just should get one and just be careful

anyway i'm gonna do that in like the

first month of the new year but

seriously my first new year's goal

or resolution this one is more of a goal

but it has to do with

algo expert my company i'm sure that a

lot of you expected this and by the way

if you're preparing for coding

interviews or

systems design interviews then do check

out my company i'll go expert go to algo

expert dot io and use the

code clem clem for discounted platform

but so algo expert

has been doing really really well in

2020. the business

grew beyond our wildest imagination to

give you an idea of how much it grew as

far as revenue and sales are concerned

compared to 2019 the business has

effectively

6x so we grew by a factor of

six which is just insane i really didn't

expect this

the start of 2020. even in the middle of

2020 we actually did some financial

projections like in may

or june and we far surpassed them you

know projections for the end of 2020 the

second half of 2020

but so now looking ahead at 2021 i'm

still very excited

we've been really growing the team

lately like hiring people you know we

hired a couple of instructors

we actually have a few other people that

might be joining or that might have

already joined wink wink and that will

announce in 2021

a lot of exciting stuff and so the goal

for 2021

is to 2.5 x the business from here

2.5 x meaning multiply and grow our

sales and revenue figures by

roughly two and a half times i think is

a

lofty like it's a pretty big goal

because remember a business can't just

like

double in size every year if that were

the case and businesses would just

keep growing and like insanely at an

insane pace right that's not gonna

happen

but i think 2.5x is like pretty high but

also

reasonably attainable i think we could

do it

um it'll be very exciting to see and you

know i'll let you know

a year from now my second goal or new

year's resolution this one actually has

a resolution to it and the goal comes

after

has to do with uh my social media as

again you might expect

so that's youtube linkedin and even

actually twitter

so just to give you a tiny bit of

context back in 2020

when i was prepping my mental goals or

resolutions for 2020

i wanted to give myself a challenge

related to

how frequently i posted on my social

media so i remember i wanted to give

myself the challenge of posting

twice a week on youtube twice a week on

linkedin a tweet a day something like

that

and i actually stuck to it i didn't

actually do the challenge but

i stuck to it for uh youtube and

linkedin

did not do it for twitter and i also had

one for instagram didn't do it at

all and what do you know i've grown a

lot on youtube and linkedin

in 2020 but not at all on twitter if you

follow me on linkedin you might have

seen my post about consistency this is

a perfect example of that but so this

year i want to do this challenge

the challenge is going to be for youtube

and linkedin just keep doing what i'm

doing

roughly two posts a week maybe one post

a week sometimes

but then for twitter i want to give

myself the challenge because i've

started tweeting lately and i actually

enjoy the platform a lot lately

i want to tweet once a day now i'm not

going to

actually you know hold myself

accountable to exactly two videos a week

or exactly one tweet a day

no the point is for it to be roughly

like that

because there are some weeks like even

this past week where

i just couldn't film a youtube video for

various reasons

sometimes you don't want to tweet on a

particular day but the point is

if overall you're roughly at an average

of a tweet a day

overall you're roughly at two videos on

youtube a day or a week

sorry then that's what i want you can

definitely keep me accountable for that

if you want and so the goals that come

out of this

little challenge or resolution that i've

given myself here

are number one for youtube i would love

to grow to 750

000 subscribers which is a little less

than 3x from here right now at 270

000 i think last time i checked and it

seems

pretty daunting because right now i'm

only gaining like you know only 500

subscribers a day roughly which just

definitely does not put me on track for

750 by the end of the year

but you never know when a viral video

can hit

growth tends to be pretty exponential

i've seen other comparably

tech channels grow to that kind of like

size

in about a year so that's the goal i'm

giving myself for linkedin i would love

to

also almost 3x so right now i'm at about

125 000 followers

i would love to hit 300 000 followers

i've actually noticed that my growth on

linkedin is

faster steeper than uh my growth on

youtube but so that's the goal

and then for twitter no real goal i

don't really know what to expect from

twitter i just want to tweet

roughly once a day and if you're not

following me on twitter then follow me

okay so the third goal this one is a

little bit more

nuanced a little bit more nebulous

basically

i want to in 2021

find some sort of new

hobby or interest or

endeavor passion something

that i can do that i can work on that

brings me happiness excitement

fulfillment

joy whatever you want to call it that

isn't

some of the stuff that i already do so

basically like let me explain here

lately and i've had this conversation

with my girlfriend with my brother

um lately i've been feeling a little bit

like kind of down not really you know

sad

certainly not depressed you know i don't

want to like exaggerate you know my

feelings here but

i've just been feeling a little bit down

a little bit um

just like just content if that makes

sense

and i have no idea if it's a combination

of you know being

maybe a little bit burnt out or maybe a

little bit like bored of doing

too much of the same because you know so

that you can understand

this year of 2020 and even you know the

few years before 2020

i have been like only working

and when i say working it's not even

just working it's like i've been only

doing i've been

all consumed by algo expert

by my youtube channel which is very much

related to algo expert into software

engineering and coding interviews and

entrepreneurship and so

it's just been a lot of the same thing

like every day you know

at my computer and you know doing

algorithms systems design

front engineering uh prepping youtube

videos you know for

all of you and i i really enjoy it but

at the same time i don't know there's

something like lately

that's been kind of like lacking for me

um i'm having a hard time pinpointing it

and that's why

you know i think that in 2021 i would

love

to have as a goal by the end of 2021

to have found something maybe that

something is

a second business to work on maybe it's

a completely new

hobby or some sort of new passion like i

remember

back in college in high school and even

like a little bit after college

i was really really really into lifting

specifically like powerlifting

i still am like i still go to the gym

all the time the gym is kind of like

part of my

life at this point but i'm not as

focused on

certain accomplishments there as i was

before like i'm not really

that into breaking like personal records

on the bench press or on the squat or

whatever as i used to

and maybe that's kind of what i'm

missing right now um

you know i don't know if what i said

conveys to you what i'm trying to convey

uh hopefully it does maybe some of you

can relate to what i'm describing

but yeah i'm trying to find some little

spark

um this year and i'll let you know at

the end of 2021

if i have found that spark and maybe

i'll let you know earlier in the year if

i find it and if it's related to youtube

or

or whatever last but not least uh

resolution number four or goal number

four this one is kind of a fun one

it's actually kind of related to the

third one to the one about

kind of like wanting a bit of excitement

in my life and stuff

uh basically i've realized also that

i am in dire need of some sort of

vacation and when i say vacation it's

not necessarily

like being able to relax and not work

because you know i work on my

on my own you know i don't really have a

boss right so i can work whenever i want

and it's not that i feel really

overworked but it's more like i feel

like i need a change of

scenery i haven't had a genuine vacation

in a completely different kind of scene

like you know maybe a resort at the

beach or something like that

in a very long time like over

two years or something uh a year and a

half or something

and obviously like with the pandemic

right now that's not really doable or if

it is i'm not really

you know in the mindset to do that with

this pandemic but so my goal is

probably at the end of 2021 to do

or go on some sort of long relaxing

exotic vacation maybe at a resort at the

beach or in the mountains or something

like that

and maybe that's where i will do the

reaction video to this video

and just to look back on how 2021 went

so

that's my fourth goal i know it's kind

of silly but you know i'm putting it as

a goal because i want it to happen

and we'll see if it does i will make

sure that it happens anyway

those are my four goals i hope that you

have your own goals and resolutions for

2021 if you don't i would encourage you

to

kind of think about them you still have

a few more days and you can always start

you know even after the new year starts

doesn't really matter

but think of what you want to accomplish

and try to

keep yourself accountable in some way

shape or form maybe by posting a comment

on this video

what are your goals for 2021 what are

your resolutions

and if you made it this far i really

appreciate it that means that you

probably

care a little bit about my goals and

resolutions so genuinely appreciate it

don't forget to smash the like button

subscribe to the channel if you haven't

already

follow me on all the social media

handles that i talked about earlier

and otherwise i will see you in the next

video

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
resolution /ˌrɛzəˈluʃən/ B1	noun - a firm decision to do or not to do something
accountable /əˈkaʊntəbəl/ B2	adjective - responsible for one's actions and decisions
lofty /ˈlɒfti/ B2	adjective - ambitious or idealistic
attainable /əˈteɪnəbəl/ B1	adjective - able to be achieved or accomplished
consistency /kənˈsɪstənsi/ B2	noun - the quality of being consistent
exponential /ˌɛkspəˈnɛnʃəl/ C1	adjective - relating to or characterized by a very rapid growth
nuanced /ˈnjuːɑːnst/ C1	adjective - characterized by subtle shades of meaning or expression
endeavor /ɛnˈdɛvər/ B2	noun - an attempt to achieve a goal
fulfillment /fʊlˈfɪlmənt/ B2	noun - a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved something
excitement /ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/ B1	noun - a feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness
scenery /ˈsiːnəri/ B1	noun - the natural features of a landscape considered in terms of their appearance
exotic /ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/ B2	adjective - originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country
entrepreneurship /ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜːrʃɪp/ C1	noun - the activity of setting up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit
powerlifting /ˈpaʊərlɪftɪŋ/ B2	noun - a strength sport that consists of three attempts to lift a maximal weight on three different exercises
pinpoint /ˈpɪnpɔɪnt/ B2	verb - to identify the exact location or cause of something

Key Grammar Structures

• i know that a lot of people don't like new year's resolutions they always say like if you have something that you want to do to start doing it now and i actually agree with them

  ➔ Present Simple with 'always' for habitual actions

  ➔ The phrase 'they always say' uses the Present Simple with 'always' to indicate a habitual action.

• but i do think that there is a merit to having some sort of mental list of things that you want to accomplish

  ➔ Present Simple with 'do' for emphasis

  ➔ The phrase 'but I do think' uses 'do' for emphasis in the Present Simple.

• the goal will maybe be to react to this video a year from now

  ➔ Future with 'will' for a prediction

  ➔ The phrase 'the goal will maybe be' uses 'will' to express a future prediction.

• compared to 2019 the business has effectively 6x

  ➔ Present Perfect for a past action with present relevance

  ➔ The phrase 'the business has effectively 6x' uses the Present Perfect to show a past action (growth) that is relevant now.

• i think 2.5x is like pretty high but also reasonably attainable

  ➔ Adverbial clause with 'but also'

  ➔ The phrase 'but also reasonably attainable' is an adverbial clause that contrasts and adds information.

• i've grown a lot on youtube and linkedin in 2020 but not at all on twitter

  ➔ Present Perfect for past actions with present results

  ➔ The phrase 'I've grown a lot' uses the Present Perfect to show past actions with present results.

• i would love to grow to 750,000 subscribers

  ➔ Modal verb 'would' for a wish or desire

  ➔ The phrase 'I would love to' uses 'would' to express a wish or desire.

• maybe that's kind of what i'm missing right now

  ➔ Present Continuous for a current state or action

  ➔ The phrase 'what I'm missing right now' uses the Present Continuous to describe a current state.