Building A Breakthrough Year

The first instalment of a guide to making 2024 the best year yet

Rome, famously not built in a day. (Photograph by the author.)

January: Set the breakthrough goal

A key goal for a given year

In 2019 I witnessed and experienced a breakthrough that few believed would happen and some even said was a miracle (too personal to share the details). It also happened to be my Breakthrough Goal, that is, the one thing I was determined to achieve above all else in 2019. A goal I put the majority of my energy and focus into.

The underlying idea had come from a book read in 2018. Encouraged, I tried setting a Breakthrough Goal again in 2020, which was to make a certain amount of money every month. That was achieved by getting a job — but that’s taken up so much of my time and energy over the past three years that goal-setting hasn’t been centre stage.

The job is good in ways, but I have a terrible manager now.

Fleeing the vampire

I thought about writing more about my “Demon Boss”. But I decided against that after reading this sentence from How to Handle a Narcissist: Understanding and dealing with a range of narcissistic personalities by Theresa Jackson : “Even if you believe the person you are dealing with is diagnosable with NPD [narcissistic personality…