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I have about 25 goals in total, including but not limited to:

• Get better about COVID mitigation
• Go vegan
• Switch to Linux
• Shoot a gun at least once
• Reach a few milestones with my conlangs
• Reach at least a breakthrough level in Norwegian Sign Language, Esperanto, and Toki Pona
• Create a Toki Pona room on Hextube where nimi autocorrect to sitelen pona using the emoji system
• Turn the Zionist flag I got for Christmas into a Palestinian flag

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.

• Consistent bass practice schedule. On the 30th and 31st, I already pushed myself super fucking hard. I practiced 6 hours on the 30th (no joke) and 2 hours on the 31st. It was really just an extreme "test," but I'm probably gonna start with 1 hour and try to build up a longer duration of practice with time.
• A stable job... 🤞🏿
• Some more piercings and tatts hopefully
• Move further into androgyny
• Continue the whole "listen to at least one album (one LP or two EPs) I've never heard before every single day" thing. I didn't miss a single day when I started on January 1st, 2024.
• Further my relationship with my dear 💚💚💚

I'd really like to expand our trans housing stuff further its chock full rn

Pffft look at all these serious resolutions. I'm going to get into anime.

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.

be even MORE trans

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 want to go traveling and meet new people

Do more exercise

Read more books than 2024

Write a book

Try to be more normal

Not die

Make it to 2026

I guess I'll list mine:

• move over to WFPB veganism and move away from junk food veganism.
• focus on finishing unmasking as an autistic person
• figure out how I want to present as enby agender
• finish my anarchist theory reading block and jump back into Lenin and Marx
• Get my freelance web development thing off the ground and actually get paying clients.
• Get my PSL branch off the ground

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.

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)

Negotiate a truce between night-man and day-man.

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

Start therapy for my depression, lose some weight, read more and and make more art, find some stable job

Whew that's a lot

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.

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.

• Get a new job.
• Thrive when I move out of the US.
• Learn more programming.
• Switch to Linux.
• Read more (especially theory).
• Decrease my weed intake.

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. 😊

Keeping my house clean. This year depression, work and overall mental health shittiness made my house into a horrible garbage nest.

• 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

Getting out of bed occasionally.

Learn Spanish and lose weight. I'm currently on a 50 day streak on duo lingo and am just finishing the 1st section.

• Get cash flow - ideally I break back into my career that I burnt out of but this welfare shit sucks a thousand festering chud dicks. I have people who need my support and I can't help them. So I'm starting to figure out that it's get paid by whatever means, even if that means lowering my expectations
• Start making music again - I want to contribute to the new hexbear trans music production community or at least use it as a place to share stuff since losing my last online social circle
• Write more poetry
• Continue to work with a local community action group on [REDACTED] and if the legal avenues fall through [MORE REDACTED STUFF]
• Get fitter, more healthy, more disciplined and more dangerous
• Go out more
• Cut back on my drugs of habit and addiction, maybe even lose all self imposed chemical shackles
• Do more fun and interesting drugs again
• 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, who are basically always correct no matter what stupid debatelord reactionary shit might intrude on my mind while I avoid discussions on these topics. I just respect the fuck out of healthy vegans and I'm scared of how powerful some of them post. Edit: no I'm not just scared, I try to recognise when I'm wrong and it's my place to shut the fuck up and kill my inner copelord.
• Continue telling on myself for being white and lucky and privileged
• Assassinate a CEO

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 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.

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.

Gonna try fruit I haven't tried before. I keep it doable

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)

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

I have 4 resolutions:

• Be nicer to people, just generally. Be more patient.
• Do some sort of kinesthetics/weight training 4-5 days per week. Get strong.
• Do some kind of (Spanish) language learning daily.
• Get organized and hopefully join an org.

I need to start reading more

And i need to get in shape

Mine was just to go to more punk shows, but bird flu may toss a wrench in that.

• make any kind of progress with eating disorder
• continue the lazy exercise I've had going the last couple months, at a minimum
• attempt to date instead of doing nothing and feeling lonely
• study my way into a better paying job
• take better care of myself, generally
• be a more attentive friend

Getting good at grilling