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Some of mine are: reading 52 books, going for a walk at least once a week, getting a new piercing, and doing my budgeting every week instead of waiting multiple weeks, etc etc
What's everyone else's? Maybe comrades with similar goals can be accountability buddies 
Make it to 2026
Trans my gender more, maybe start HRT (I had a stupid hallmark ass movie christmas involving reconnecting with my also non binary formally somewhat estranged sibling, which was nice and put things in perspective but also a whole thing)
Stick to the bare minium government recommendations on alcohol. No more than 10 standards a week, no more than 4 in a setting etc. Found I've been drinking more when stressed.
Engage in the local queer Bdsm scene where I've moved. Maybe attend events with my partner. Would really like to do some modelling for someone else. Not sure how feasible that is but could put feelers out there.
I'm hoping to upgrade my rower and use my time to exercise slightly less but better. Some months I've been doing 7hrs a week of bike or rower. I want to get that to just 5hrs of rowing at a regular time.
Read more. I'm hoping if I get my exercise in during the morning I'll have more time for reading.
I have about 25 goals in total, including but not limited to:
Intrigued at someone giving you an Israeli flag as a Christmas present
What's your most developed conlang called?
Start therapy for my depression, lose some weight, read more and and make more art, find some stable job
Whew that's a lot
I'd really like to expand our trans housing stuff further its chock full rn
Here's my list, in no particular order and I'd be thrilled if I even achieve just one:
Finally get a full-time job again and move out of my parents (and far away from my hometown) for good.
Get skilled in something that isn't vidya or media consumption. (It could be learning an instrument, actually figuring out some technology skills, art, just anything)
Stop seeing life like a piece of media and also stop mourning my childhood essentially. It's over. Time to make the most of adulthood.
Get some IRL friends and try to be a normal 20-something for once.
This is embarrassing to admit, but still important: I want to improve my hygiene: Have a skincare routine, actually learn how to take care of myself and take care of my hair and teeth before anything expensive catches up to me. Autism is impacting my quality of life, but I do at least have the free will to overcome my psychic blockages for lack of a better term.
Get skilled in something that isn't vidya or media consumption. (It could be learning an instrument, actually figuring out some technology skills, art, just anything)
I always recommend people to learn playing the guitar. It's relatively cheap, you just need to make one investment in the beginning. You can learn it by yourself using the resources from the internet or you can take a few lessons in the beginning. Learning to play it is relatively easy, you can make a lot of progress in just 2-3 months. Most of pop music is simple so you just need to learn some basic chords in order to play a lot of songs. Learning the guitar will make it easier to learn other instruments if you want. And of course you can then play in a band if you wish, which is the most fun part of it 
also stop mourning my childhood essentially. It's over. Time to make the most of adulthood.
I feel this, but remember - adulthood is what you make it. You will never have endless free time again, but you can bring some of your favorite hobbies from childhood into your adulthood. I feel like that fills the void for me. Good luck!
I'm too depressed for goals but I really hope you all achieve these aspirations next year. If you post here, you believe in something real, so you can live for a real purpose, so you can achieve these goals. Cheers.
I’ve been here. I hope things get better for you! ❤️
I need to solidify some of these into measurable goals (like you did), but this is the general list.
I think us “read more” people should make a weekly post for how much / what you read this week. Or a matrix group? Maybe that would help with accountability? Just throwing out ideas. 😊
We either have or used to have a weekly "what are you reading" post on the literature com 
Best of luck on your goals!
We either have or used to have a weekly "what are you reading" post on the literature com
Thanks, I’ll go check it out! Or start one once I get reading!
Best of luck on your goals!
Thanks, you too!
Pffft look at all these serious resolutions. I'm going to get into anime.
Do more exercise
Read more books than 2024
Write a book
Try to be more normal
Not die
I guess I'll list mine:
I want to go traveling and meet new people
I wanna improve my cardio. Work out more regular- I slacked off last year. I wanna improve my muscle strength. God willing im on a road to become fucking huge
I hope to get into another romantic relationship
I wanna try and learn 3-4 really complex and deep games like Shadow Empires, Dominons 6 etc
Seriously thinking about going vegan
Plus I wanna attempt and read a book a month (which might seem super low for some of you but I just got back into reading books a couple of years ago)
Seriously thinking about going vegan
Plus I wanna attempt and read a book a month (which might seem super low for some of you but I just got back into reading books a couple of years ago)
I have a recommendation regarding these two goals, it's called How Not to Die. It's a book about the health benefits of the whole-foods plant-based diet. The book is evidence-based and has thousands of references to scientific literature. It is very informative and has a lot of useful and actionable advice. I read it in 2024 and my diet is now healthier than it's ever been. I recommend it any chance I get. The author also wrote two cookbooks, which are also available for free on Anna's Archive 
Negotiate a truce between night-man and day-man.
Get back into playing guitar. It's been about 5-6 years since I've picked up an instrument. Played regularly from 14-28, was even in a band. Ended up selling all my instruments because I was poor.
Just bought this for $180.
Gonna get a boss katana 50 and see how it goes
Also gonna get back into drawing. Haven't drawn since I was a kid. Seems like a fun, calming hobby. Thinking about just doing graphite or pen and paper.
Work on my fitness goals, grind up my language learning game, go Vegan, complete the 30ish works of theory I have left in my "essentials" list (personal), and become a more chill person in general.
Wanna' do an LSD Dream Emulator playthrough where I play a single dream every day because the game ends after 365 stages so it should end by New Year's Eve 2025.
Be more principled
I am going to finish reading The Will To Change and rejoin the reading group. I've caught up with most of the reading, so I'll be making some posts there soonish.
Mine are to: recreationaly read more, learn to do taxes, learn how to develop an insurance plan, finish getting my degree in Accounting.... And maybe find out how on earth I make friends.
Getting out of bed occasionally.
Getting more financial independence from my parents (moving out is the ultimate goal but it is not going to be easy especially with the disability I have), get a diagnosis for my chronic fatigue, and do as much organizing as said fatigue allows. Also, make as much progress on my long-term comic projects as I can in between all of that plus school.
Get back on and stay back on HRT once my fertility preservation stuff is done
Advance my career, hopefully enough to move into a nicer apartment when this lease is up
Continue weight loss
Make more friends and go on some dates
edit: 
I just read everyone else's and I love how many of my saner and more generic goals are also goals of so many others.
Get fitter, more healthy, more disciplined and more dangerous
Yass girl!
Cut back on my drugs of habit and addiction, maybe even lose all self imposed chemical shackles
Learn and perfect some vegan or at least vegetarian dishes so I can eat better, for cheaper and feel just a little less morally inferior to our powerful vegan comrades…
Me too. 😫
Assassinate a CEO
Critical support.
Keeping my house clean. This year depression, work and overall mental health shittiness made my house into a horrible garbage nest.
"Well, first, you gotta start with your room, bucko"
U know what, Peter Jordanson is a reactionary piece of shit, but this year I've been in video calls where moving the camera just a touch to either side would've revealed a pile of garbage I was too depressed and in executive dysfunction to pick up and throw away, so I'm gonna go easy on him for this.
Genuinely I need some discipline. When I was in a relationship it kind of kept me grounded, but when I’m single I tend to…. Slip. I have a pretty active job but I want to get back into swimming, try and make sure I eat a lil healthier, quit vaping again, cut back on drinking. Nothing crazy, just pull myself back into line a bit.
I started therapy a couple of months back, I’m interested to see where that takes me this year.
I just got approved to rent an apartment so I’ll be living alone (no family, housemate or partner - except my cat I guess lol) for the first time ever, so I’m kinda excited to make the place my own. I have almost no furniture so it’s a blank canvas. Although it will take me a while to get stuff because I have no money lol. On the same note I need to manage my finances a little better, try and finally finishing paying off my debt (I have maybe a thousand to go), maybe even god forbid start saving something.
Plus I want to be more inspired and disciplined with my organising work. I’ve been doing it for five years now and in 2024 I felt so burned out, and so did the rest of the organisation tbh. I want to be a better comrade and hopefully enable my comrades to be better as well.
So yeh, I’m not really setting huge unrealistic “resolutions”, but I just want to be a marginally improved person and communist. And a better friend tbh, some of my friendships stalled out last year, I’ve started to reconnect with some people.
Learn Spanish and lose weight. I'm currently on a 50 day streak on duo lingo and am just finishing the 1st section.
Skateboard 3 times a month
Fufill my requirements to be eligible for promotion at work
CW DIETING
lose 40 lb
Get my bachelors degree, overcome my fear of going to the gym, draw regularly, start playing around with music, participate in community organization and communicate how I really feel compassionately and bravely.
Gonna try fruit I haven't tried before. I keep it doable
I have 4 resolutions:
Read other books, regarding imperialism, such as Super Imperialism by Michael Hudson (if I can conquer 3 volumes of Kapital, I can finish this one)
Mine was just to go to more punk shows, but bird flu may toss a wrench in that.
Learn electrical wiring, anyone got a primer? I'm trying to build an hho welder here, and my electrical knowledge is in that weird place where I have a random assortment of intermediate-level knowledge but lack many fundamentals. Still, learning this would help round out my fabrication hobbies and seems like the logical next step of my materials-and-components scavenging habit. Get back to school too
