{"id":2722,"date":"2018-12-31T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2018-12-29T18:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T22:23:56","slug":"2018-recap-and-2019-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/2018-recap-and-2019-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Recap and 2019 Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone is enjoying their New Year&#8217;s Eve. In reading last year&#8217;s recap, I realized that our household was in quarantine with the flu and right now I&#8217;m trying to fend off whatever feels flu-y. It&#8217;s sort of comforting to know that it&#8217;s a trend. A ton of things happened in 2018 that I&#8217;m extremely proud of, but that&#8217;s for another day! Reflecting on how much I accomplished from my goal list, I feel incredibly happy with what I managed to do.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to everything I accomplished, I also won Best Academic Solution at DevLearn 2018&#8217;s DemoFest, I delivered my first full-day pre-conference certificate workshop (and received pretty darn good feedback), bought a new house with my husband (and sold our first home &#8211; which was a PROCESS!), visited one of my besties, Erin, in Aspen, got to spend an entire week with my best friend, Rachel in Vegas (she will be my new Vegas pal&#8230;AMEN!), and accepted a new job that I hope will become my career. It&#8217;s been wild!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2018 Recap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Personal goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>Slow down and enjoy the present<\/del>; &#8211; <strong>I have made this goal for many years in a row and I SUCK at achieving it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Maintain a consi<del>stent exercise schedule<\/del>; &#8211; <strong>This is a half-achievement. In July I tore my medial meniscus in my left knee, so exercise has been just a nice thought since then and until post-surgery (whenever the heck that will be&#8230;AMEN to universal healthcare).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Be more mindful of the food I&#8217;m putting into my body and make positive dietary changes; &#8211; <strong>I completely forgot that this was a 2018 goal, and I actually achieved it. This past year I went gluten-free, which has been both a blessing and a curse. I hate to admit that it&#8217;s been effective with my migraines and visual auras&#8230;because GF pizza crust just isn&#8217;t the same, but I&#8217;m sticking with it!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><del>Run the Bluenose Half Marathon and participate in a relay race (should be do-able since I won&#8217;t be attending ATD ICE this year)<\/del>; and &#8211; <strong>This didn&#8217;t happen because I did end up going to ATD ICE (which was amazing).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Travel to Toronto with my husband for the Blue Jays Home Opener and plan and execute an epic 5-year anniversary vacation. &#8211; <strong>Went to the home opener. They got crushed. It was still great! Executed a 5-year anniversary vacation to Portugal, and it was beautiful.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Business Goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase business income by 25%; &#8211; <strong>Business income has been blown out of the water.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Attend 2 conferences; &#8211;\u00a0<strong>I actually attended 3: ATD ICE, ATD Core4 Toronto, and DevLearn 2018.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Speak at 1-2 e-learning conferences; &#8211; <strong>I spoke at 2 conferences: ATD Core4 Toronto and DevLearn 2018.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><del>Participate in the e-learning heroes community challenges (period &#8211; not regularly, just participate)<\/del>; &#8211; <strong>I&#8217;ve realized that to do this, I need to discover cloning technology&#8230;I would LOVE to participate, but have been swamped.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Blog regularly; &#8211; <strong>This definitely happened!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Break 1,000,000 views on the blog; and &#8211; <strong>The blog has hit 1,025,000 thereabouts! And I cannot believe how much love and support (from you folks) that I get for this blog and the content I produce. When I hit 1 million, I actually teared up. I&#8217;m not crying&#8230;you&#8217;re crying!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Get more courses up on Sprout. &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sproutelearning.com\/courses\/essentials-of-instructional-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Essentials of Instructional Design<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sproutelearning.com\/courses\/articulate-storyline-360-Essentials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Articulate Storyline 360 Essentials<\/a> both launched and have been enjoying a very successful learner-ship!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2019 Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Personal Goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slow down and enjoy the present;<\/li>\n<li>Have knee surgery to repair the torn meniscus;<\/li>\n<li>Rehab the knee and then return to a maintaining a consistent exercise schedule;<\/li>\n<li>Make additional dietary changes (maybe get rid of dairy?); and<\/li>\n<li>Hit the cottage at least four times for max relaxing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Business Goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WORK LESS;<\/li>\n<li>Work smarter &#8211; implement processes that will make my work-life easier and more efficient;<\/li>\n<li>Hire an accountant (something that I&#8217;ve been long overdue for);<\/li>\n<li>Maintain relationships with my existing clients;<\/li>\n<li>Invest in sprucing up the blog;<\/li>\n<li>Blog regularly; and<\/li>\n<li>Continue to grow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sproutelearning.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sprout E-Learning<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone is enjoying their New Year&#8217;s Eve. 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