It’s 2020 now! Cool Number… notice that you only get to see once a repeated number in the year in a lifetime (20).
I usually do not set specific goals in order to get them done by the end of the year and this has made me a little bit of a procrastinator. I want to change that, as you know, anything that gets measured gets managed! Remember that you gotta be SMART when establishing your goals:
- Specific (simple, sensible, significant)
- Measurable (meaningful, motivating).
- Achievable (agreed, attainable).
- Relevant (reasonable, realistic and resourced, results-based).
- Time bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive).
I could do this to myself but I want to make it public so you guys know what are the plans for my project “chemical engineering guy”. I want to be more open and transparent… I think this makes more authentic my website!
Anyways, these are my goals, in order of priority:
Create more Courses!
Yep, more courses… I get a lot of requests of new courses, some broad courses (Chemical Engineering Equipment) and other are very specific (polymerization of X material under Y conditions using Z equipment).
I will try to make my best to do applied theory courses, seemingly, the audience is more interested on that rather than specific solved problems.
My promise – at least 6 Courses of the following topics:
- Batch Distillation
- Binary Distillation
- Vapor-Liquid Equipment
- Liq-Liq Extraction
- Reaction Kinetics for Chemical Reactors
- Chemical Reactor Engineering – Isothermal (Part I)
- Chemical Reactor Engineering – Nonisothermal (Part II)
- Energy Balances
- Oil & Gas Industry related courses
- HYSYS – Bootcamp
- HYSYS – Oil & Gas
By the way, I will also try to improve/renew/update the following courses:
Start Vlogging
I should have been started video blogging since I started back in 2014… Back then I was very shy and didn’t know if this project was going to work. This scared me a lot! Now I feel more prepared and, honestly, I really don’t care that much about others opinions!
Since I was a student I remember the lack of material to study from on the internet, mainly YouTube. I really thought that by now there will be lots of resources, but I see that is yet not true! Its pretty hard to find some vloggers talking about ChemE!
Not only that! I keep watching channels of very niche applications (gaming, makeup, fashion, slow travel, fast travel, video making and so on) yet, I don’t see any new Chemical Engineering content.
The Internet needs some quality vlog on Chemical Engineering, I hope I can achieve such standards!
I might create a 2nd channel or do it directly on my existing one.
Achieve these milestones
Very simple stats, yet powerful:
- 50K YouTube Subscribers – currently I have 35K subs, growing at 700-900 subs per month… I will need to grow at least 1200 per month!
- 5K Newsletter Subscribers – Currently, I have 3K which I have obtained in about 3 years… lets see if I can get 2K in this year alone!
- 3x Website Traffic – Status quo of my website is approx 3K visitors per month. I will then need to achieve 10K per month! It is a great challenge but I’m confident that with more blog posts I will make this possible!
Post more on my Blog
As you can imagine, in order to achieve the tripling of my website traffic I will need more blog posts! I need to commit to posting at least 1 per week!
That makes 52 posts per year!
Doesn’t sound that much but if at least each post gets 120 visits per month, then I will be able to get to 10K visitors per month at the end of the year!
Talking about posts, most probably I will be uploading to my LinkedIn as well as LinkedIn Groups.
Any ideas of blog posts are welcome, please mail them here
Write Two E-Books
I love E-Books! Those are great to read, specially at work hehe… I’m going to prepare a Free and a Paid E-book:
- Surviving Engineering – The Complete Guide
- Free E-book on tips and guidelines to survive studying engineering: school, hobbies, projects, networking, internships, resources, etc… Get on the waiting list here!
- Learning Process Simulation – A Comprehensive Method
- An E-book showing some of my video-courses. Meant for those who hate video lectures. Get on the waiting list here.
More Instagram!
I will also try to increase my Instagram activity. Specially Instagram Stories + Posts. Let it be: 52 posts + 12 stories!
Increase Membership in Groups
As you may know, I have created several groups in order to create communities related to chemical engineering. These are:
- Aspen Plus & HYSYS Forum – Facebook Group: Goal – From 4.4K members to 8K
- Aspen Plus & HYSYS – Q&A Support and Forum – (Unofficial) Goal – From 115 Members to 1000.
Start a Patreon!
Yep, I’m preparing a Patreon Account, still haven’t work that much in it, but I will be launching it soon for those willing to support my work outside courses and e-books 🙂
Got any idea? Please contact me here
Those are my goals of 2020… those are not written in stone, but will definitively work towards that!
Please feel free to send me your suggestions, comments or even doubts!
Let’s own 2020!