After my last post, I have left myself to my own devices and not enforced any structure onto my day-to-day routine. I think for the first couple of weeks off from my working life in a long time is a fine thing and while my professional goals have slipped from my focus, I have managed to get myself into a decent exercise routine. I am currently running three times a week with a goal to completing a couch to 5K program as well as cycling three times a week preparing for the Dirty Boar which I am doing in September.

Inevitably I may have to begin planning my days a bit more thoroughly to ensure that I do not waste my time and continue to move forward with my goals. In the meantime I am quite happy that I have managed to complete the majority of my blog post for Ghost setup which I will post soon as well as purchasing a lot of Udemy courses which I plan to work through (probably allotting x hours per day/week to work through them).

I am buoyed by my progress with fitness goals, especially during probably the hottest few weeks the UK has ever seen. Hopefully I can continue with those goals and begin to work on my professional goals over the next week.

I have said goodbye to my now former colleagues and I am now alone with my thoughts from 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. Hopefully this blog will chart my progress towards smashing some career relevant goals and getting my personal fitness back on track as well as giving out some great nuggets along the way.

The blog itself is Ghost hosted by me on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Free Tier and I plan to make a post about how I set it up and any issues encountered along the way.

#Goals

I guess I should probably lay out what I hope to achieve and in what sort of time frame, as well as how I hope to achieve my goals.

I'd like to get some certifications on my CV, to reinforce the experience I already have. I'm interested in the following:

1. AWS Certifications - up to DevOps Engineer
2. Recertify my CCNA?
3. CompTIA Security+
4. Hashicorp Terraform Certified Associate
5. PRINCE2 Practitioner
6. Ansible/Linux Certs?
7. Kubernetes?

I am hoping that as I learn the above, I'll be encouraged to take on small projects on Cloud based infrastructure to help transfer my skills over to cloud from my very on-premises hardware way of thinking.

#PersonalGoals

I want to get fitter - bit of a personal goal, but I would like to consistently train my running and cycling to the point where I feel good doing both again. I don't have any specific goals in mind for this currently.

Video Game creation - I started making a small Go Karting game and it would be cool to finish it.

Declutter - I have acquired way too much stuff and need to sell some things!

Make things - I'd like to make an Arduino based Wheel of Fortune. It might happen.