Examining my 2025 goal progress

Today is my birthday, and we're almost halfway through the year already, so it feels like a good time to check in on my goals. Let's see how I'm doing...

Completed goals

• Built another web app
• Made a custom website for myself for the first time
• Launch cred.blue
• Finally got Bluesky OAuth working
• Created one minor art project
• Began publishing longer form content on my blog at least once a month
• Played in a tennis league
• Cleaned the garage
• Ended my sabbatical

Unplanned achievements

• Created Flushes
• Created atpota.to
• Created several smaller atproto projects
• Tennis team made it to state championship
• Started live streaming
• Cleaned spare bedroom + finished unboxing

On track

• Create some sort of helpful + free "evergreen" content series
• Continue microblogging daily
• Read at least one book a month
• Meditate more than I did in 2024
• Land my next job (ideally thru relationships and discovery rather than applications) OR begin to generate income from a project
• Continue playing tennis 2-3 times a week
• Use are.na on a daily/weekly basis
• Create a new series of photographs

Still to do

• Create one major art project
• Start exercising outside of tennis on a regular basis
• Start going back to the dentist after ~1 year off
• Try to consume a lower amount of added sugar
• Volunteer for something
• Join a book club
• Make some new friends within a 50 mile radius of where I live
• Research sigils and magick finally
• Start journaling again
• Take a solo trip
• Travel someplace new
• Take some private tennis lessons to improve fundamentals
• Get to bed earlier

New goals

• Reduce meat intake further
• Rely more on solar power + track my energy consumption
• Setup PDS on raspberry pi, maybe make it solar only
• Launch Unnamed Challenges app
• Launch Types (app)
• Launch Unnamed ATProto Client
• Launch v2 of cred.blue
• Launch merch + art store

Overall I'm happy with my progress so far. My remaining goals are quite ambitious, and I know I won't finish all of them, but it gives me plenty to aim towards.