I usually don’t plan ahead in my life, but when I do, I just ignore them and I do whatever pleases me at that specific moment.
But this time, I am gonna try to plan ahead, and I am gonna try to stick to it (yeh sure). I am gonna try to make 2025 a year of change (not really), a year of growth (Its biologically impossible in my age), a year of learning (this one is actually true), a year of new experiences (third day of the year and already happened), a year of new challenges (but not to challenging).
But most importantly, I am gonna try to make 2025 a year of happiness (I am already happy, so I guess I am done).
But anyway Im gonna write down some commitments that means nothing to noone but me, and we will see how it goes. No promises, no expectations, just a list of things that I would like to do in this year.
One might wonder why; I was walking around at work and I heard people talking about their new year resolutions, and I thought to myself, what will I respond if anybody asks me about my new year resolutions. And I realized I don’t have any. Then I made up some goals on the spot, but nobody asked me, so I thought I should write them down and share them with the world. But that’s my alternate reality and not the one you are reading this piece.
Also I enjoy writing. I do that on a daily basis, for documenting my work and my personal life. I try to journal an eventlog of everything that I care to remember. So here we go, my 2025 goals, in no particular order:
1. Read a lot of books (no number specified)
I seriously committed on my goodreads account to 52 books (while maintaining a straight face) because I thought that number should be something you’d never reach normally. But at least I’m gonna try to double the amount compared to 2024 which I don’t remember how many it was and didn’t track properly. But that’s not the point. The point is at this time I’m enjoying reading stuff and I will continue to do so as long as it’s fun. Audiobooks are also a huge help to be honest when focusing becomes more difficult every day.
2. Write more public stuff: 12 blog posts
This one should be easy, I am currently writing this one, so I am already 1/12th done. But historically speaking, this goal looks like an impossible thing to do.
As a person who writes a lot of stuff for living and maintaining mental health, writing for public consumption shouldn’t give me this amount of friction but it does.
So this gonna be a practice to ease in to make it a habit and then I can write thousonds pages of novels and write technical Medium articles and make money and get rich and buy my yellow sports car for my midlife crisis. But first, 12 blog posts.
3. Stop being financially stupid
Someone should have said this to my face, but people are too worried about offending other people which I think is irrelevant and counterproductive.
Anyway I have no idea where money comes from and goes to and I rarely think twice buying unnecessary stuff. I am not in a bad financial situation but you need to be prepared for the fight against the machines era. (You know, the enemy, skynet, Artificial Superintelligence).
For that I decided to do some budgeting, some investing, some saving, some learning about money and some other boring stuff that I dont want to do but I have to.
For Budgeting I found a cool app called YNAB and it looks like those late 2000s accounting softwares with better user experience and I liked it. It could be just an Excel sheet which I made before but YNAB supposed to make it easier. We will see.
4. Get good at my simulated racing journey: Win 5 races
In 2024 I started sim racing as a completly new hobby and invested an insane amount of money in hardware to buy my way in but it does’nt work like that. One does not simply jump in and drive a car on the limit of laws of physics. It needs a lot of practice like any other craft that anyone want to master.
And being a competitive person, it hugely sucks to lose, and believe me I lost a lot. I can confidently say this was the most humbling experience of my life. I couldn’t even finish a lap at a decent pace at the beginning without crashing or spinning.
Then I invested the time to practice and learn and opted in to a driving academy which is cool and all. But I’m still a competetive person, and recently noticed im just practicing and avoiding the races because I dont want to face the reality of testing my skills.
But knowing that satisfactional feeling of standing on a virtual podium in such a difficult sport (yes I did it twice last year!), I’m gonna grind through it with blood and sweat to improve it to 5 new wins.
5. Do more sports
Of course there is no list complete without the cliché. The most boring stuff is usually the necessary ones.
I already developed swimming as a weekly thingy, but it requires a lot more stamina and muscle development which means I need to go back to the gym and do the tedious nonesense of lifting weights instead of the fun part of floating in the water.
Also I tried Padel (I thought its Paddling too when I signed up for it!) with colleagues and I’m ironically starting to like it. It’s kind of lazy version of tennis, that fits my personality.
Again at work at some point, I’m probably going to re-join to the weekly office workout which is a mix of fun, crossfit ,kick boxing and getting tortured by the meanest trainer in the town (actually she is very nice for doing this for us) (don’t hold it against me, I never signed any papers).
6. Learn to make a video game
Yes I like living my dreams and I usually do, except this one that doesnt require being a billionaire like other dreams I have (owning a car racing team for example).
As a person that living in his own alternate version of reality, I have to suppress my creative energy to be able to function in the real world. But I think I can channel it to something I always loved and make a video game.
But this is just a day dream (not even an actuall full fledged medically certified valid dream but it stil counts). I recently tried Godot game engine and im fascinated by its simplicity and power.
I’m gonna try to make a simple game and see how it goes. Actually I already made a stonishing complex rippoff of Mario (dont sue me Nintendo) and shared it here on X. (oops I just revealed my identity, [Dr House oopsie gif here]) I can’t wait to plan for my actual Idea and draw some sketches and make it come to life.
It still lacks the wow factor but eventually I’m gonna find it. The point is to learn, not to sell millions of copies on the first day. (that gonna be for 2026)
7. Start a new side project/side hustle
I’m not even sure about this one. The market situation sucks for a new business and I’m not sure if I still have my crystal ball to predict the future like I used to. But it won’t hurt that much to try anymore. At the same time, it’s kind of the best opportunity and tons of startups are using this golden age of bullshit.
8. Learn to meditate
I was talking to a friend about my neurological issues with focus and distractions and got a recommendation to try to manage it off with meditation. I always thought meditation was for stressed or angry people and I’m too chill to do this nonsense. But I looked it up and it seems like a good idea to try it and see what happens.
I have’nt slightest idea how should I do that but Im gonna figure it out and learn how to control my thoughts when they want to go wild and roam free when they should not to.
9. Keep my Journaling habit going
My Blog is kind of a journal itself but my private journal got a lot of new entries in 2024 for the first time in years and It actually helped me a lot to keep my sanity in check. Sometimes I get surprised by the things I wrote while writing it and that experience changed me a little bit and I’m grateful to myself for that.
P.S. I’m not gonna share my journal in my blog, it’s massively private and could destroy lives.
P.S.S. I wont disgrace myself with using AI tools to speelcheck, grammer check or rephrase my words for me and lets keep it with errors and mistakes as authentic and handmade as it gets.