Since writing down goals worked so well last year, I’m going to do it again. So here are my comedy goals for this coming year.

Side note: I recommend everyone write down their goals (not necessarily comedy) somewhere and not look at them for six months. You’ll be surprised how much of them you’ll have achieved.

Performing:

• Get on stage 450 times this year
• Do at least 8 road gigs
• Perform at 3 different colleges
• Perform at Rutgers University twice
• Bark only 1-2 nights per week while having spots 6-7 nights a week
• Average 4 spots per weekend night
• Get passed at 2 different clubs in NYC
• Practice my full set at home daily
• Enter 5 comedy contests, place in 3 contests and win 1
• Enter 5 comedy festivals, get accepted and perform in 2
• Perform in 15 improv shows
• Perform in 3 sketch shows
• Act in 20 web videos
• Give my motivational speech 20 times (details coming soon!)
• Get booked to 2 commercial / modeling gigs
• Get a TV / Film credit

Producing:

• Produce my own weekly show where the average attendance is 30 people
• Start or join an improv group
• Run a weekly open mic

Writing:

• Write every morning
• Get up to having 45 solid minutes of stand up
• Write 75 blog posts that are not performance critiques
• Write a performance critique of every set within a week of the performance
• Write 52 sketches
• Write a spec script
• Write a pilot for my original sitcom

Learning:

• Take 3 improv classes
• Take 2 film acting classes
• Take a commercial auditions class

Traffic, Marketing and Finances:

• Get my facebook fan page up to 1,000 fans
• Get to 200 RSS subscribers
• Get 2,000 unique visitors a month to the blog
• Earn $8,400 from comedy this year
• Find a 20 hour a week job that pays $40 an hour (doesn’t have to be comedy)
• Have my ebook downloaded 5,000 times (details coming soon!)

Holy crap, I just set 35 goals! I can barely count that high. Last year I had 14 goals and achieved 12 of them. Here’s to achieving the same proportion of goals this year!