I am more excited for 2025 than I have been for any year in history. This is the first year of my life where I don’t have to work on meaningless work. I can spend every waking moment working on/thinking about really impactful stuff. That feeling is incredibly freeing and it makes me so excited for what I can create this year. In order to make sure this year is as good as I know it can be I am going to lay out some general goals I want to follow.
Health
I want to be someone who is generally in shape. The two things I want to focus on to achieve this goal are lifting weights and running. My goal is to run and lift weights every non-sunday of the year.
I also want to focus on my diet. This will change throughout the year based on my fitness goals. I just want to generally be concious of what I am eating and try to eat healthy.
I want to really dial in my sleep. I want to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day, even Sunday. I am also getting an Oura and I want to experiment with what gives me the best sleep.
The final aspect of my health I want to focus on is not consuming any weed or alcohol for the year. Neither of these substances does a lot towards making me a cooler dude, so I will abstain for 2025.
Personal
I want to make a lot of friends this year. I didn’t do a great job of making friends in college for three reasons: I am bad at making friends, I didn’t try very hard, I didn’t have a lot in common with the people I was around. Solving the second problem will hopefully solve the first one, and now that I am living in San Francisco that solves the third problem. So I want to do my best to put myself out there and meet new interesting people.
I want to go on dates this year. I know that this a little stupid because I just left college where there were thousands of girls my age to move to a city where there are a grand total of 4 girls my age. But either way, I want to get out of my comfort zone in regards to dating and hopefully meet some awesome ladies.
I want to post on social media. Mostly Twitter and Youtube. But I want to start doing things publicly so people know what kind of cool stuff I am working on. One of my buddies from Wordware also said that Twitter is a great way to meet other people in the tech space, so maybe it can even help with my goal to make new friends.
Professional
My main professional goal of 2025 is to work my ass off. I consider myself a hard worker, but this year I really want to test my limits in terms of how hard I can work. Since I have other goals this year like lifting and making new friends, I cannot spend every waking moment working. So I want to do experiments and figure out how I can maximize my efficiency and output for when I am working. I want to master deep work. (I also still will work some gnarly hours).
I want to build one awesome thing. I want to have something that I built that I am truly proud of by the end of the year. Obviously I will build a lot of stuff over the course of the year but I want to have one thing that I look back and I think this is SO COOL.
I want to explore the world of AI. I have decided that Sunday is the day of Isaac. I am not going to the gym, running, or going to the office on Sunday. I will give myself one day a week to just explore and build whatever I want. Ideally building stuff related to Wordware and writing blogs or filming videos about it. But mostly just making sure it really interests me.
Conclusion
2025 is going to be the best year of my life to date. I am going to build so much cool stuff and so many awesome relationships. I am going to get in the best shape of my life and become smarter and cooler than I have ever been before. I am going to be a beast.