25 Goals for 2025

It is best practice, for many good reasons, to set no more than three goals at a time. Anything more than that gets unmanageable. I still believe that is the best way to go.

And yet here, on the first day of 2025, I am going to set 25 goals for myself. Why so many? Partially because that is my own quirky style. Also, I am not in my last ten years of my professional career, and I am feeling the pressure of time. Finally, I have numerous projects started and I hope this list will help me knock of at least some of them.

I am going to print off this blog post and hang it in my home office. I will check of items as I accomplish them and will report back here in one year to see how I did.

So here are the 25 things that I would like to accomplish in 2025.

1. To go away somewhere with Amanda to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.
2. To take a trip somewhere with our daughter Emma to celebrate her upcoming graduation from high school.
3. To see Logan and Abby in-person at some point in the year.
4. To interview at least six authors or thinkers for my YouTube channel.
5. To get my email inbox down to zero.
6. To make some sales on my new online store.
7. To return to translating passages from Greek and Hebrew as part of my sermon preparation at Brookfield Baptist Church.
8. To record videos based on the proposals I made in my Doctor of Ministry thesis on disability ministry.
9. To publish two journal articles.
10. To finish writing one of the books that I have started writing. I would prefer it be two.
11. To exercise at least five times a week.
12. To train more Sentinels is my role as a military chaplain.
13. To finish writing and publish a Bible study I am working on.
14. To finish writing and publish an online course I am working on. This will be part of a series of online courses that I hope to sell here.
15. To read 100 books during the year.
16. To visit PEI.
17. To go see a race with any of my children that are interested.
18. To have at least 150 visits to my blog happening on a regular basis.
19. To record and publish at least eight episodes each of my History of Christianity and Second World War podcasts.
20. To find and do on a regular basis exercises to help strengthen my back.
21. To learn about mindfulness and integrate it into my life.
22. To purge my library of books I am no longer interested in and to find a suitable home for them.
23. To offer a webinar on some topic that I have been researching.
24. To begin to cook at least one meal per week at home and to be making at least two per week by the end of the year.
25. To make at least one project out of wood to develop my woodworking skills.

That sounds like a lot and I do not know if I will accomplish all 25. But I do not see this as a succeed/fail list. It is about putting out some goals and seeing what I can do to take things to the next level.

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