He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans.
– Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The general idea this year is to make and do things. I plan a lot but I end up finishing very little. As such, I've decided to reduce the amount of things I do so that I can finish more things. This time, I will share the actions for each section.
Health
My weight is the main problem here, so the main thing I will be focusing on this year is my diet and eating habits. Exercise will be a secondary focus and I'm sure it'll also help a bit. The main reason I'm including exercise is that it makes me feel good.
Actions
DONE Create exercise habit in Life Management System(LMS)
DONE Create spreadsheet to track weight
DONE Start "weight loss" project
Productivity
I've always known that willpower is finite but I acted as if mine wasn't. Limiting the things I do within a day has been helpful so I'm going to keep doing that. The main thing I will be focusing on here is finishing personal projects. Last year I started more than twenty personal projects but I finished maybe two. I'm going to try to not start any more personal projects and finish some of the current projects instead.
Actions
DOING Finish three personal projects
TODO Build three digital products
Programming
I spent a lot of time programming last year. Most of it was not focused practice or learning though, I was just trying to get things to work. I learned new programming languages but I'm still not good at any of them. I started learning OCaml for advent of code so I'll still keep learning that but I won't be learning any new programming languages this year.
Actions
DONE Create leetcode habit in LMS
DOING Finish programming boost
The programming boost is a project I created to "get good" at the programming languages I already know and DSA
TODO Finish ThreeJS Journey course
TODO Read Writing An Interpreter In Go
Relationships
I was a bit more proactive in my relationships last year. This was a big improvement from previous years. This year I want to spend more time with people I care about. There are a lot of cool people I know that I want to be closer to but I didn't make time for them. On the romantic side, I wasn't as proactive as I could've been so I'm going to do that this year.
Actions
DOING Go out with friends at least ten times [0/10]
TODO Ask at most ten girls out on a date
The goal is to get a girlfriend but I do not want to go on a date with more than ten people.
Money
Like I said in my 2024 review, people are weird about money so I'm not going to talk about concrete amounts. The overall goal is to double my current income.
Actions
DONE Create client acquisition habit in LMS
DOING Start a business
I've mostly been using platforms like Fiverr and Upwork but I think it's time to start a business proper.
TODO Get a salary increase
Other skills
Last year the goal was to focus on Graphic Design and UI/UX Design. I ended up doing too many things instead. This year I'll be focusing on UI/UX Design and playing guitar.
Actions
DONE Create UI/UX Design learning habit in LMS
DONE Create classical guitar learning habit in LMS
DOING Finish three design projects
TODO Learn how to play three pieces
Conclusion
This list seems more doable than what I had last year. I also made the mistake of adding some goals to my plans but because they weren't very actionable I didn't do anything.
There are other things I want to do but they don't fit properly into any of the categories and some are a bit sensitive so I'll keep those to myself. If I end up doing them, I will post about it on my Twitter and/or Instagram.
Happy New Year.