PaperCat

I’m just going to skip the fact that 2025 is right around the corner and time doesn’t feel real. I have lots of lofty goals for 2025 but something that I learned in the course of 2024 is that the little actions that we make each day add up to bigger progress than we could ever imagine in that moment. Some of the goals that I want to pursue are related to health and wellness of course, but I won’t bring them all up specifically.

One thing that will help me achieve those health-related goals is to not drink any sodas. It can be a fairly restrictive idea but last year, I made it through the whole first quarter of the year without a single soda. The thing that I focus on is drinking water, coffee, and tea instead. I don’t just focus on what I can’t have because then that’s ALL that I want and can think about.

I want to earn at least one Conquer’s Challenge medal in the year. I have started my first one which is a total of 145 miles in the timeframe of 6 months. This means walking 1-3 miles each day. That’s 20 mins to 1 hour of walking each day and that’s totally doable.

I want to read 15 books in the year. This isn’t too difficult for me because I read multiple books at any one time. I do this by reading 1-2 chapters every few days. I don’t literally read multiple books at the exact same time, but I can’t limit myself to one genre at a time because I choose which one of my “in-progress” books to read based on my mood.

I want to complete 3 specializations on Coursera. Specifically, I want to focus on business and leadership. My goal with this is to be able to grow in my career to become a leader in title as well as leading naturally. I also have more study goals that are specific to my career as an insurance claims adjuster, including to earn my Associate in Claims. This will also help me in the same goal of moving into a leadership position.

An ideal that will be hard for me to do as well but I would like to implement some of it is staying off social media. The exception would be to post on social media but I do not want to scroll endlessly. I want to post on Instagram and LinkedIn, and then there is a group on Facebook that I will check for a specific weekly post, but I will not scroll. My goal will be to keep total social media usage under 1 hour a day. In January, if I can start by keeping it under 2 hours per day, I will be happy with that start.

I want to keep up with my progress by blogging progress updates regularly. First, my goal will be once a week. If I can keep up with alllllllll that and the above items, then I will look into expanding that to three times per week. But these posts will include photos and essentially be my wordy version of “vlogs” so I also aim to make them quality posts.

That is a lot but I am a determined individual. What are your goals for 2025? Or how many categories are you looking to improve in during the course of the year?