Written by Colin
Published on: 2025-08-10
I am terrible at setting goals and accomplishing them. They are either too big, or too small, and I always end up in a never-ending cycle of wanting to do so much but getting nowhere.
There are a few default accomplishments in life (some of which are extremely meaningful to me), such as graduating high school, college, buying a house, etc. However, those were never really something I wrote down or focused on ahead of time, they were just expected. It’s clear to me that I never really set a long-term goal for myself, made a plan to accomplish it, and did it. I’ve just never formally done it before, and if I ever said I was going to do something (“run a marathon”), I had no plan to do it and it never happened. Now, I’m at a point where I feel like if I do actually set a goal, it is inevitably going to end in failure.This is not a good way to think of course, so I’m starting from scratch. Whether it is desperation or drive, I’m leaning into it.
Some may say that if everything is going fine in life, setting other goals for yourself is unnecessary or signals some kind of discontent with the life you’re living. Now that you mention it, I guess we should just stop growing and chasing our dreams! Why didn’t I think of that?!
For now, I prefer to go for it. Try something and fail at it, even if it takes up my time or I lose sleep doing it. Make a plan to do something I’ve never done before and stick to it. Show myself that it’s okay to fail, or to make the slowest imaginable progress toward something worth doing. Complete a project that’s so mediocre, there’s probably millions of other people that did the exact same thing, but better.
I’m not the first person to feel this way, but it’s the first time I’m choosing to focus a little more. I could just go out and do it and not overcomplicate things, but that would be too easy. Rather than using someone else’s strategy, I’m going to make my own. That’s where Fifty Feats comes in…
Fifty Feats is just an idea right now, but eventually it will be a tool for anyone to accomplish a one year goal. It might not work, but I’m testing it out on myself to see what happens. There’s a lot of flaws with the logic (too rigid, too long of a timeframe, not enough room for flexibility, etc), so it may end up being just another goal-setting app that doesn’t get you any closer to what you want to accomplish. There’s also a lot of benefits (singular focus, a documented plan with milestones and momentum, public accountability, and many more), and that’s where the real success can happen.
My first focus is to build Fifty Feats. I guess I’m going to give myself one year to do it, starting August 9th, 2025. By August 9th 2026, fiftyfeats.com will be a functioning app you can use to accomplish your own one year goals. I don’t have the full plan mapped out on day one, so it’s going to be messy at first. I have a feeling this first goal of mine won’t truly follow the Fifty Feats framework, so don’t be surprised if it doesn’t quite look organized yet. I’ll dive into the details soon, and if you follow along, you’ll hopefully see the site come to life. I’ll leave one hint below to set up what this is all about.
At it’s core, Fifty Feats is a framework to complete one year goals using the following milestones and activities:
FOCUS > PHASES > FEATURES > FEATS > FLOW
