Q2 2025 Check-in: How did you do fulfilling your quarterly goals?
For those who don't know:
Instead of New Year's resolutions, I set goals at the beginning of each quarter to accomplish in the next 90 days and evaluate them at the end.
What were your Q2 goals, and how did you perform at maintaining them?
Feel free to share your successes.
Here's a rundown of what I accomplished (or didn't accomplish) in Q2:
My goals for Q2:π Record 30 YT shorts according to scripts I created
β 30 videos recorded (accomplished it in 2 weeks in June). π₯΅
π Edit at least 10 of them
β Not at all, this will be a difficult nut to crack, so I wanna accomplish it in Q3.
π 30 Twitter posts (research, write them, preparation)
β Completed during May.
π Prepare a strategy for growing the newsletter in terms of paid subscribers
β Nope, gonna do in Q3.
π Write at least 2 articles (in collaboration with someone)
β Had 2 collaborative writers, here you can read those articles:
How to benefit from SEO on social media?
How to Start Earning Money By Writing Online
π Co-organise an offline event
γ°οΈ Still in progress.
π To be interviewed for a videocast/podcast
γ°οΈ One guy interviewed me, promised to launch it between May/June βΒ but he didn't deliver. π
π Start a new project
β Not really.
π Keep exercising, learning 3 languages and reading
β Very modest but still stick to this.
P.S. Tomorrow, I will share my upcoming goals for Q3. Let's prepare too.
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Love that you're working in 90-day sprints - that's such a powerful approach for maintaining momentum and actually getting things done.
If you're open to some advice, I noticed a few things that might help you crush Q3 even harder:
1. Focus on 3-5 needle-moving goals: You had 8+ goals this quarter, which is ambitious but can spread you thin. Try picking 3-5 that will really move the needle for your business/brand.
2. Work backwards from your yearly vision: Did you plan out where you want to be at the end of 2025 and work backwards to set these quarterly goals? Having that north star helps ensure you're purposefully working toward your bigger picture.
3. Make your goals SMART: Some of yours were great (like "Record 30 YT shorts"), but others could be more specific. SMART = Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound.
For example, instead of "Prepare a strategy for growing newsletter paid subscribers," try: "Research 3 competitor newsletter strategies and create a written plan with 5 specific tactics to test by July 31st."
Or "Start a new project" could become: "Launch beta version of [specific project name] with 10 test users by August 15th."
The more specific you get, the easier it is to know exactly what "done" looks like.
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@rohulpΒ The first point is something I considered as well. This time, I would like to complete those that I wasn't able in Q2 :)
@busmark_w_nikaΒ I'm actually building something for exactly this - turning vision into actual goals and staying accountable. Happy to give you free access if you're down to give feedback.
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@rohulpΒ What is the tool?
@busmark_w_nikaΒ The tool is called claritysmb. It still pre-launch but I am looking for business owners to test drive and provide feedback. Happy to set something up.
@rohulpΒ This is great feedback. I am gonna use your advice for my own goal setting.
IXORD
I have too many plans, I haven't accomplished them all π
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@ixordΒ Can you share at least one point (goal) you set for yourself? :D (if that one was achieved, you will get little bonus points.)
Clueso
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@ashutosh_rajΒ Thank you! Today, I will be posting about Q3 goals. Feel free to share them so in Q4, we can make check in :D What were your Q2 goals and achievements? :)
This is a good approach, and you may be aware of this already - but you're very close to doing OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). If you haven't heard of OKRs, check them out at https://www.whatmatters.com/. Similar concept to your approach, but you dig a little deeper into why you want to do certain things.
For example, rather than a goal of "30 Twitter Posts", you add the desired outcome for aspiration and inspiration, e.g. "Develop a consistent and scalable Twitter content marketing plan, so that I increase engagement on Twitter". Then, one of your Key Results would be to increase Retweets, Likes or something like that by a given percentage or number.
As Rohul commented, add SMART goals in to help with the Objectives and you start to build out meaningful and aspirational goals vs checklists.
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@montooth_designΒ I like to set numbers and time frame so definitely the goal needs to be SMART, not vaguely described! :D