New Years Goals/Resolutions for 2025

I need to finish an ongoing project this year. I also want to finish a video game that I have been putting off because I disliked the results.
 
I think one more for me would be to read more...like, a LOT more!
 
I'd like to find some love in my life, or at least get up the courage to ask someone out.
Hanging out with my sister at a party, and everyone there was in a relationship but me. It was depressing. Nice seeing everyone be all cute together, and then I'm just there on my own. So I hope I'll find some love this year.

I'd also like to get back into my weekly beauty routine, and pursue graphic design more. Put myself out there, and see what happens.

Well, I hope to not get dangerously sick again. But there's some stuff you just can't control.
 
  • Lose weight. Both by eating healthier and exercising
  • Finish the Life is Strange videogame series. Currently on Before the Storm. After this one I have 3 more games in the series to play.
  • Keep up with going to my volunteer job with the rescue cats. Very important to me to keep up with my commitments
  • Consistently practice violin and keep taking lessons with my teacher
These are my main goals. Sometimes I make like insanely long lists of goals for the new years and I find I never end up accomplishing most because I immediately get overwhelmed so trying to keep it simple this year :)
 
  • Eat more and eat better. My current diet is akin to that of a rabbit's 😅
  • Focus more on school. Grades are mattering more than ever now. I hate this education system but it's not like I can do anything about it...
  • Work out more. Lift weights, stretch, go on walks, the works.
  • Write more. I've undertaken a lot of huge projects this year (an original 5-book series, an 8-book fanfiction series, and two more standalones), and I need to make significant progress.
  • Read more. My original 2024 reading goal was 20 books and I've upped it to almost 40 for 2025.
  • Officially release at least one song
  • Get an actual job that provides a steady income (voice acting is NOT cutting it right now...)
  • Get my learner's license
  • Build altars for all my deities
 
I never really make resolutions. Or not ones that I wait until the 1st to bother doing. If I want to do something, I usually just do it or get started because if I put it off until the New Years it's probably not going to happen.

I do have plans to fix up my basement. So that's not something I can do right away and will take time. I've already decluttered and painted the walls with sealant. And also replaced the windows. I just really want to finally fix up the basement like I always dreamed of and I don't want it to just be another pipedream.

Get better and do more art. And also write more. I have this story I've been working on for my penpal for some time and I hope to make a lot more progress on it.
 
- Exercise more and get in shape. I already managed to lose several pounds after working out at the gym this year, so I hope I continue to stay active.
- Read more books. I'll definitely visit the library more frequently in 2025 than I did this year.
- Get my driver's license.
- Complete more art. I also want to develop a more consistent schedule for drawing instead of completing a small amount each time I practice.
- Find a new job.

Tbh, you don't have to wait until New Year's Day to make resolutions since you can set goals for yourself and start them whenever you want. Also, if you wait until you feel motivated to start a goal, then you likely won't accomplish much. Though these goals are manageable for me to accomplish within 2025, and hence I look forward to the upcoming year.
 
Last year I said read more which I did not do, so this time actually read more! I'd like to play through some of my videogame backlog as well.
 
I just want to get more actually done. Drawing practice, quilt projects, landscape projects, piano pieces - I want to accomplish something. 😅
 
i want to continue to learn how to code. i started learning HTML (for fun) a few weeks ago and i want to continue to do that and hopefully learn CSS and javascript for web development.
 
im trying to lock in for once and lose a bit of weight along with getting my driver’s permit and maybe my license before im 18
 
Goals:

-Start off with going to New Orleans and help my dad
-Lose weight (gained too much again this holiday) I also need to for the sake of my back and joints
-Hopefully finally find a better job or see what I want to do career wise
-Draw more
-Get back to practicing on the piano

Thoughts:

2025 already?

Nervous about:

-I'd say for my mom who's still "on hold" for a liver transplant V-V
-Me not getting things done
-WWIII??? XDDDDDD

Excited for:

-New music coming out, like Dream Theater and Silverstein
-Switch 2 (Hopefully)
-WWE events like Raw debut on Netflix, Royal Rumble, John Cena's farewell tour, Wrestlemania 41, etc.
-Metallica concert with my dad 🤘
 
I really do try and limit one's that are a BIG factor in life, mainly because when. You think of that big factor, and not the lil pointers that equal to that goal.

- Get a Job, I have a lost of companies I need to properly look at and see if I can communicate for even any work experience or something. UC is also on my back about finding a job, they actually expect me to, before our next call have a job ready that I wanna apply for :/ 🤔 um if I see a job I instantly apply why do I need to wait.
This year I'm putting food and retail behind me!!!

- my writing. My damn creative writing. My fanfics I've planned for ages, have not been typed and this is a crime. I just need to sit down and write something, go back and fix stuff once something is down.
I feel bad for myself, I guess understanding this writers block properly to succeed.

- get down and do more creative arts and crafts, got a lot of random stuff I need to finish, nevermond the space for it XD

- watch more things I wanna watch and don't leave it. I have a thing about starting and stopping halfway it's crazy, and I miss watching things.

- Go out and do more social activities or find groups to do more hobbies. Find more people in my hobbies and connect.

- exercise more!!
 
Well, let's see...

- grade average of 1.5 (A)
- pass my final exam with an A

Am I motivated to study? Not really, but this school year I got pretty lucky so far. My worst grade was a B with 90%. It's probably my final school year of my life and I really want to achieve what I'm capable of. But I'm really lazy.

- read a book

I did not read a book in 2024............... I really want to read like half an hour before sleeping but I'm so lazy. I bought two books in 2024 and I'm stuck on the same book since like 2018. But I did play hundreds of hours of visual novels so it's not like I didn't read but... And I am reading this forum right now. 😭 But committing to books is so difficult for me, I really need to find a way to corporate books into my life.

- lose weight

I'm not going to put a number behind this goal this time. I always get so discouraged when I do everything right and the scale doesn't move. I'm relatively close to my lowest weight if we ignore the holiday gains, this year it's more important to me to eat consistently at a deficit every single day, or at least 99% of the days which leaves me with 3(.65) cheat days. :3 I saw an IG post that was like "if you lose 100 g every day then you will lose 36.5 kg in a year" and that was really motivating to me. At most I'd have to lose 32.5 kg but I would be fine with a loss of 18.5 kg. So I could reach my goal even by only losing like 50-60 g per day. That's a lotta math, but I do find the science behind weightloss fascinating. Every year I end at the same weight and I hope to change that, even if I just lose 10 kg.

- find a job

I need to find a job for after my exam. Not an exciting goal, but definitely the most important.

- 53 perfect games on Steam

Just to end on a silly note! I'm 10 games away so that won't be an issue, but I just want to surpass my old account.
 
The biggest goal for me this year is simply to get a new job. Though I had the same goal last year, and it didn't happen in 2024, so uhhh here's hoping this year's a lot better.

Some other goals I have are to fix my sleep schedule, since it's been really bad over the past, uh, 18 or so months. I want to beat at least 20 video games. I want to waste less time and be a lot more productive overall, whether it's for things I need to do or things I want to do. Lastly, in general I just want to improve myself and be a lot kinder to myself this year.
 
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