Hello everyone! Today, being almost February, I achieved my end of 2019 goals! I finally uploaded 1000 reviews and got 100 million views on my photos.
Last year in December when I realized I was pretty close to getting to 100 million views on my photos I set the goal to achieve it by the end of the year… As if I could do something to get more views, fast, besides uploading photos and hoping some of them get featured, right? 
It isn’t the first time I do something like that, though!
At the end of 2018 I also set the goal for myself to reach 50 million views by the end of the year, and I didn’t make it, either! But I was “close”.
The truth is… I still remember what is was like to reach the first million and even the first 10 thousand views because its such a long process. When set a goal for number of views, and the deadline is close, all you can do is hope! Adding a bunch of photos last minute, as good as they seem to be, doesn’t do much unfortunately. And don’t just upload any photo, take this article into account: What photos should I share on Google Maps?
About setting the goal of reaching a number of reviews, it requires you to visit a lot of places, so it takes a long time too. Even if you travel a lot!
I could have achieved my goal of 1000 reviews in 2019 because of how many places I was able to visit on my trip to Connect Live, but honestly reviews take a lot of energy from me, and I also feel like I have to be in the right mindset to write them or I could end up writing something not as detailed and specific as I would like, which I think it’s not useful for others. Now, I would never write something spammy like “Nice place.”, but I do like to be specific, I always try to give advice and recommendations, as I love so much to read it on reviews.
Having said all this, I’m taking this double accomplishment as a great way to start this Local Guides year 
My 2020 goals are based on quality and used as a motivation and a way to focus on contributing in a certain way, and not really about achieving it on a certain time frame.
My next goals are:
- Getting that precious Master Director badge!
Yep, but I won’t be disappointed if I don’t get it this year. I still have a lot of videos to upload and a lot of views to get. I’d rather not rush and upload videos of everything, but focus on quality videos when I feel it makes sense to record.
- Uploading more 360 photos
I might not set an specific views goal, but I do like getting lots of views on my photos and 360s usually are pretty popular. I can only dream of reaching @TorM 's amount of views… but I can surely try! I might have to follow his steps and visit lots of shopping malls to take photos of each store 
- Improving my already published lists, and keep publishing more (quality) lists!
I want to make sure my lists are the best quality they can be. I will follow the recommendations Maps gives on every single one of them. What most of my lists are in need of are good descriptions of each place, for sure.
- Achieving more with our One Accessibility alliance
I don’t have any specific plans yet, but we do want to achieve more and get more involved with our local communities! I want to focus on that and try to see what I can do to improve accessibility in my region.
- Keep the Argentine community growing
Get more people to join the programs in meet-ups, but this is more about trying to get the Argentine community more connected with each other so hopefully meet-ups can be done as frequently all over the country, and not just in Buenos Aires. Having other provinces organize as much meet-ups as we do in Buenos Aires someday would be amazing!
How to do that? We have been doing it with teamwork, planning, and proactive attitude of Local Guides in our community like @FaridTDF until not so long ago, and now @Cecilita 
, @AdroGran , and more.
Maybe I come up with more goals throughout the year!
What about you?
- What are your next Local Guides goals? Comment them on @KarenVChin 's post: Dare to Join My Local Guides Goals Challenge
- Have you ever set a goal for number of views before a certain date and realized you couldn’t do much to achieve it?
- Is there something you are just focusing on this year, with no deadline?
Let me know in the comments!
!! This is wonderful to start the new year right with hitting your first goal in before the first month ends. I know with the wind behind your back you will accomplish ALL your 2020 Local Guides Goals by the end of this year!
! You have my admiration 
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That’s the easy part unfortunately. Once you already did those, think about the needs of people in your life, friends or family. And then even strangers you see on the street. You can be specific, so you can create an “Accessible parks” list, an “Restaurants to go with kids”, “Pet friendly shopping malls”, or “Cafes with gluten-free options”.