My goals for 2025

I don’t really do goals.

Or rather, I make a giant list of more or less important and ambitious goals in December, try things out, and re-prioritize somewhere around my birthday (end of March) for what will be the closest thing there is to an actual yearly goals list.

For 2024, I had 8 goals. I achieved two, failed one, and the other five just… disappeared. On December 25, 2024, I can report that they are fully irrelevant: there’s getting a promotion at work (I quit in August), doing a triathlon (I nuked my knee in January and have been struggling ever since), or being very involved in a project that I realized, two months in, was not worth risking burnout for.

For 2025, I have 14 goals in my original draft. Here’s the public list.

Movement and wellbeing:

• Work out three times a week. Currently my preference goes to bodyweight strength training and roller derby, but that could change (and there’s the matter of finding alternatives when roller derby is cancelled, or my knee hurts too much to skate). I’d like to move to 4 workouts per week around the end of the year, if my physical shape allows, but 3 is already 3 more than two years ago.
• Go into the mountains 12 times.
• Keep upgrading my wardrobe with durable, ethical, comfortable, and professional clothes. (This also means not buying things I won’t wear or don’t need.)
• Avoid news outlets and video essays if they don’t actually bring me something good.

Computers:

• Finish my computer science class (almost there!) and move on to another, more advanced or specialized, course.
• Build one computer science project from my ideas log.

Culture and education:

• Listen to an audiobook in German.
• Read 4 books in Italian.
• Keep learning German and Italian, although the group class might not be the right format for me, so that requires exploring other formats.
• Watch 12 movies I’ve never seen before, and go to the cinema 6 times (these 6 times don’t count in the 12).

Self-esteem:

• Publish 52 book reviews on this blog.

Let’s see how many of these still make the list in a couple of months.

Feel free to share resources, advice, encouragement, or suggestions, and to also share your own goals if you’ve chosen to have some!