Week 2023#41: 100% completion, review and repeat

It's the end of the year - time to celebrate

Tarmo from Surfcafé runs amazing coffee tastings and when the topic of “Is there good instant coffee?” came up, he shared Kohe, which features stunning images of the crystals found in coffee.

Scoring the “year”

The last round of accountability! The 12 Week Year is over!

The singular goal: reach a turnover of 5000 EUR for Decode Estonian.

Currently, I’m sitting at €3,711.23, out of which €46.73 was earned in Week 41.

The new income is from paid subscriptions on Substack.

The progress tracker is still here if you are curious about the details.

Week 41 had the worst execution score: 16.67%

Taking to-be-paid-out ticket sales into account, the actual turnover looks like this: €4,512.23.

That’s 90% of what I was shooting for.

I’m genuinely surprised that…I did it 🤯

What happens next

Week 42 is for celebrating, reflecting, and creating a plan for the next “year”.

Having the first one under my belt, I decided to extend work towards more than one goal.

The next year features three goals:

1. Grow Decode Estonian further

2. Reach Hungarian B1

3. Get ready for a new roof in Sweden

Growing Decode Estonian further

The actions here are:

• more workshops - one per week, -3 for holidays in December/January and -1 for my trip to Budapest next week

• develop one reference card per day for the new teaching materials

• prepare one grammar post per week for paid subscribers on the Substack - they pay, I want to deliver

👉 actually giving workshops turned out to be the most important thing for generating turnover and it didn’t feature in my last plan, so this time I want it to be reflected.

Developing card-based reference materials works towards two goals: more revenue (the deck of cards can be sold) and allowing me to conduct the workshops without a computer.

The latter is really important because it unlocks summer for business - with the reference cards workshops in nature, involving hikes or sitting at a lakeside become possible.

Reach Hungarian B1

Why? I feel like I am close already and Estonian is still the only language I learned to a respectable level.

In other words, I feel like I’ve rested on my laurels for too long, and especially now that I’m telling people how to learn a language, I should practice what I preach and demonstrate that it leads to success.

Concretely this means:

• listening to 5 minutes of Hungarian per day - this is difficult for me because I don’t have patience for podcasts in any language, so 5 minutes seems like a reasonable start.

• translate Hungarian for 15 minutes per day - this is easy to execute once I commit to doing it - all the study material is on my desk at home, I just need to sit down there for 15 minutes before leaving the house.

• Once a week, I’ll have a 30-minute conversation in Hungarian either in person or remotely. I’ll also transfer all of the vocabulary I encountered during translation into a spreadsheet to make progress more visible.

Get ready for a new roof in Sweden

Why? The existing roof can break at any moment, so I actually want to tackle this next year.

What? The new roof is likely going to cost somewhere between 40k and 50k EUR. I can get a loan for 30k EUR in Estonia. That means I still need to find 10k EUR before May next year.

How? Just saving more :) I’m already saving money for unexpected expenses around the house, so I’ll just increase my savings rate.

Once a week, I’ll transfer 350 EUR to my Byvägen 7 savings account.

Doing it weekly reminds me of the importance of this and makes saving feel “more active”.