Moody Monday: Looking Back and Moving forward Goals for 2025

 

I could lecture about the importance of goals and how to set them in ways that are specific, achievable, and measurable, but you didn't come here for that. Either you are goal driven, or you aren't.   

I set goals for myself each year, and at the end of the year, I check against last year's goals to see how I have done.  It helps me to make a plan, and have some idea what do I want to do this year. If I fail to plan, I am planning to fail. Someday I will figure out what I want to be when I grow up. 

So my goals for 2024 as published on this blog last December 28th were;  

• Read 50 books.  I kind of blew this one out of the water, ending the reading list for the year at 96. 
• Visit my local library. Yes, and I have so much enjoyed my local library - please use yours. 
• Meet 3 or more bloggers in person. Mitchell, Sean, and Diane.  
• Hotel nights? Me guess was 40-50, I ended with a new record for me 73 nights, a couple funerals in Cleveland added to this. 
• Blog Daily. Mission accomplished.  
• A week or more of digital disconnect - It went well. I don't see a reason to repeat this one. But I have considered dropping FB. 
• 45 minutes or more of movement, 5 or more days per week.  60 minutes 6 days most weeks. 
• Check one or more items off of the bucket list.  Crossed the Atlantic on a ship, spent a couple of weeks in the south of France, rode in a Ford TriMotor. 
• Go to two or more condo events monthly (when I am home.) Probably about 50% on this one.  I will try to do better. 
• Go out to lunch at least once a week.  Missed this one by probably 1/3, though we ate out when we were traveling and that was a lot. 
• Experience one new art. Fail, I had hoped to take an art class this year. 

So there are several hits and a few misses in 2024. 

What are my goals for 2025? 

• Keep walking at least 60 minutes per day, on average 6 days per week. 
• Read 50 or more books. 
• One more bucket list item (Scotland in early May.) 
• Travel I think will be about 45 nights this year. 
• Blog daily, I missed one day in 2015, and not a day since. 
• Practice arts, painting, photography. 
• Submit for at least one arts showcase.
• Try at least one new art. 
• Ride a local bus. 
• Finish the chapter on Identity Theft.

So there are 8 things I plan to do this year. Nothing earth shattering.  All of it things that assuming my health remains good, and war does not break out, are within my ability. Some are maintenance tasks, some are growth tasks. 

Let me know if you want to read the lecture on goal setting.  

What are your plans for the New Year?