Closing down 2020 and approaching 2021

2020 was quite challenging for everyone. We made our way through the pandemic so far, and I hope this post finds all of you healthy. That said, I want to look back at 2020 share some numbers and do a quick a forecast for 2021.

Blog statistics

I am pretty satisfied with my blogging habits in 2020. But I did not publish consistently. I maintained a backlog of topics that I wanted to cover over the year. However, sometimes I struggled finishing articles. English is not my primary language, and creating posts takes more time than it actually would in German. Anyways, let’s have a look at the numbers:

• Published 34 posts in 2020 (including this one)
• Reached an average of 17.393 page views per month
• Obviously, people from all over the world read my blog. For 2020 the top three countries were
  • 🇺🇸 United States - 25,01%
  • 🇮🇳 India - 9.30%
  • 🇩🇪 Germany - 6.62%
• Pushed 221 commits to the blog repository
• According to the raw stats, the top three posts of the year are

Top Terminal Commands

I use my iTerm daily. Across all commands, I used those 5 commands most often in 2020

1. kubectl
2. docker

If you want to find your top terminal commands, check out this command I shared on Twitter a couple of weeks ago:

Find your top terminal commands

Personal statistics

• I visited New York 🗽 for the 10th time in February
  • Was an amazing trip. Just me and my oldest daughter 💕
• I placed 66 orders on Amazon
  • The cheapest item I bought was A4 Printer Paper - 500 sheets for 4.49 Euros
  • The most expensive item was the Apple Watch Series 6 for 543.87 Euros
• I completed 57 runs (some on Strava others using Nike Run Club)
  • The shortest distance was 1.48 kilometers recorded in June
  • The longest distance was 12.26 kilometers recorded in January
  • My comfortable pace is currently 5:45 per kilometer
• Regarding Apple Activity
  • I hit my daily move goal (target 600-750 active calories) 76 times.
  • I wore the Apple Watch only 214 of 365 days
  • Logged 522 kcal/day from activities like running or functional fitness (exclusing all the soccer trainings)
  • Increased cardio fitness - as of today at 44.5 VO2max
• Regarding weight, I gained almost 5 kilograms since the 1st of January 2020.
  • Unfortunately, I had to deal with several injuries over the year.
  • I struggled a lot during lockdowns. I wasn’t able to focus on sports. Sometimes I felt mentally exhausted, although I know that running helps myself to recover

Goals for 2021

Now that we looked at some numbers from 2020, it is time for a forecast. Across all metrics, I want to establish consistency. So what are my goals for 2021?

Goals for the blog

Consistently publishing new articles is the key to increase reach and page views. That said, I want to

• publish four posts per month
• increase the number of page views by 20%
• top the best performing post from 2020
• find a sponsor for this blog

Personal goals

Consistency is also a high priority goal for my personal life in 2021. A couple of weeks ago I had a chat with my boss about sports (especially running). He said that my sports activity is binary. Once I started running, I go all in. However, it lasts only for six to eight weeks. And he was right.

So my personal goals for 2021 are:

• Stay healthy
• Rebuild my home office in the basement
• Complete at least two runs per week (sums up to 104 runs) follow me on Strava or let’s compete on Apple Activity
• Finish a Freeletics training journey (I started a six-week journey on 27th of December 2020)
• Wear my Apple Watch daily
• Loose 8 kilograms of body weight and eat fewer sweets
• Place fewer orders on Amazon, compared to 2020

Conclusion

That was a quick run through 2020 and my goals for 2021. What are your numbers for 2020 and your goals for 2021? Join the thread on Twitter! I would love to read about your achievements and goals.

2020 Achievements and goals for 2021