New Years Resolutions (2025)

My previous resolutions was a useful experience to note down. Therefore, I will repeat this for 2025 in this post, continuely updating with progress as I did in 2024. I’ll go into slightly more depth this year, althought too many constraints make it harder to follow.

Health / Lifestyle

Maintain Reduced Sugar Intake

As with last year, I want to continue to reduce how much processed sugar I eat. Since this has already decreased since 2023, the goal is to maintain this and not increase it. Hopefully, I can reduce it further but the official ‘goal’ is to maintain it.

More, Regular Exercise

The plan will be to build up a consistent routine of cycling once per week. This will tie into other goals as I will use this as a way of visiting new places.

w/c	done
06/01/2025	✅
13/01/2025

Improve Sleep Schedule

I need to sleep at least 7.5hrs per night, this will result in a sleep schedule of ~10.30pm to ~6am. An additional goal would be to improve the quality of my sleep. I’ll update this as I research more into this, but will start with no phone usage 30 minutes before and after bed.

Personal Development

Read 12 Fiction Books

I really enjoyed pushing myself to read 12 books last year (I got to 10). I’ll do the same this year, updating this when I start a new book.

Month	Book
January	Beowulf

Write 4 Technical Blog Posts

I only managed to write 1 technical blog post last year, and found it difficult to find the time to write. I’ll aim to produce 4 this year, which should be achievable. I will not have a goal for non-technical blog posts (mtg), but I’ll hopefully write some of those regardless.

Release gpt-cotts

I’ve been working on gptcotts for a while now, and I genuinely find it useful. Once the last few set of MVP features are released, I’d like to release for public use. I’ll update this as I get closer to this goal.

Become more active on X/Discord/IRL

I’d like to start making more friends within the CS community, and I think this is the best way to do it. It’s hard to quantify this (and doing so would be weird), so I’ll just update this as I feel I’m making progress.

Travel

Visit 20 Interesting Places

As with 2024, interesting is a biased term. It’s anywhere I find cool. I’ll post the pictures here as a record.

A2 -> B2 Portuguese

As the title suggests, I’d like to solidify my Portuguese to a B1/B2 level. I think i’m bordering on B anyway, so it’ll be fun to see if I can do it.