I’d like to end the year on a positive note for myself and start to look forward to the coming year ahead.
 

Rather than making New Year’s resolutions, I prefer the idea of going into the following year with some personal goals.
 

Goals are great, but they also have to be achievable and within expectations, otherwise they can also lead to disappointment.

 

So I’ve just quickly written down 5 personal objectives for 2025 that I think are worthwhile, but also possible. Not in any particular order:

 

1 - Remain strong, positive and in good health

2 - Pursue more of my creative ideas

3 - Enjoy life more than in 2024 

4 - Travel more in 2025

5 - Always aim to worry less and don’t overthink

 

Do you have any of your own?

1 minute ago, RSD1 said:

I’d like to end the year on a positive note for myself and start to look forward to the coming year ahead.
 

Rather than making New Year’s resolutions, I prefer the idea of going into the following year with some personal goals.
 

Goals are great, but they also have to be achievable and within expectations, otherwise they can also lead to disappointment.

 

So I’ve just quickly written down 5 personal objectives for 2025 that I think are worthwhile, but also possible. Not in any particular order:

 

1 - Remain strong, positive and in good health

2 - Pursue more of my creative ideas

3 - Enjoy life more than in 2024 

4 - Travel more in 2025

5 - Always aim to worry less and don’t overthink

 

Do you have any of your own?

Those sound good to me.   

 

I'm definitely going to try to do more travel, although I'm not sure what "creative ideas" I'd want to pursue.  Maybe do more photography.  

6 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Those sound good to me.   

 

I'm definitely going to try to do more travel, although I'm not sure what "creative ideas" I'd want to pursue.  Maybe do more photography.  

Thanks.

 

Photography is a great idea. If you come up with a project or a concept of something that you would enjoy to shoot throughout the year, then it also creates a discipline and a goal for achieving a body of work. That can also make you and you work more focused (no pun intended) and exciting to pursue.

49 minutes ago, RSD1 said:

Thanks.

 

Photography is a great idea. If you come up with a project or a concept of something that you would enjoy to shoot throughout the year, then it also creates a discipline and a goal for achieving a body of work. That can also make you and you work more focused (no pun intended) and exciting to pursue.

 

Focused work?  That's great, but that's usually not me. I never really plan anything, but when inspiration strikes, I like to be in a position to take advantage of it, if that makes any sense. Stop whatever I'm doing and focus on whatever inspires me at the time.  I usually get better results when I'm multi-tasking, in any event.  Otherwise, I'm likely to get hung up on a problem. or what I think is a problem.  So, I stop that work and come back to it later.  By that time, the problem may not seem like a problem any more. 

 

How that fits into photography?  I'm going to make myself carry around my camera, or start taking advantage of the camera I have in my pocket on the I-Phone.   

I have always wanted to visit Luang Prabang.

Drop 16 kilo, Do Yoga class 100 times, Learn conversational Thai and simple reading, get a girl friend.

 

Travel: Brazil, Papua,  Chengdu, Mongolia, possibly Myanmar to meditate.

12 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I have always wanted to visit Luang Prabang.

Excellent. Do it. 
 

What about Bhutan?

1 minute ago, Prubangboy said:

Drop 16 kilo, Do Yoga class 100 times, Learn conversational Thai and simple reading, get a girl friend.

 

Travel: Brazil, Papua,  Chengdu, Mongolia, possibly Myanmar to meditate.

Excellent list. All doable. 👍🏼

50 minutes ago, jas007 said:

How that fits into photography?  I'm going to make myself carry around my camera, or start taking advantage of the camera I have in my pocket on the I-Phone.   

I used to travel with cameras, but I stopped a few years ago. I noticed just by shooting using my phone that I actually take more pictures. A smartphone camera is always ready to go and no lens changes that can slow you down. I found that I don't miss as many passing moments this way. As they say, the best camera for the job is always the one in your hand.

Was in Luang Prubang 18 months ago. A bit of a ghost town due to Covid, I hear it's slowly coming back. Used to have an amazing collection of SEA fusion foodie places, now down to 5. Laos food in the Luang Prubang style is frenchified Issan food.

 

Didn't love Bhutan. Food is poor, temples are not nearly as good as Tibet/Nepal. The big plus was the very green Himalaya's. I'd say do it for 5 days.

 

Unless you're doing the trek. That was like going back 100 years. But that's a 25 year old recollection.  They've seen plenty of gringo's since. Prob still very other-worldly feeling tho, I am sure.

 

Add Tahiti to my list and a mail boat drift back to Melbourne, and my bucket list is done.

5 hours ago, Prubangboy said:

Didn't love Bhutan. Food is poor, temples are not nearly as good as Tibet/Nepal. The big plus was the very green Himalaya's. I'd say do it for 5 days.

 

I guess everyone's takeaway will be different from Bhutan. I can't say because I've never been there myself, but I'm not sure I would get much out of it now. Maybe when I was younger, when I still enjoyed the adventurous and less predictable side of traveling. 

 

Also, I heard Tibet is no longer very interesting after the Chinese have destroyed it. I still remember those scenes of that Tibetan temple in the Samsara film as well as some in Baraka. It looked so idyllic at that time. 

Stay in good health and remain sexually active.

10 hours ago, RSD1 said:

Do you have any of your own?

Not being any worse than 2024 is about as good as it can be for me.

I will stop listening to Jimi Hendrix in 2025. 

 

More fattening foods, more weed, more hardbodies. Maybe an AMG if I decide to road trip. Definitely VIP room at FKK Sharks.

At 71 my personal goal each year is to keep breathing.

Mt personal goal  for 2025...

 

 

See start of 2026.

 

 

12 hours ago, RSD1 said:

I’d like to end the year on a positive note for myself and start to look forward to the coming year ahead.
 

Rather than making New Year’s resolutions, I prefer the idea of going into the following year with some personal goals.
 

Goals are great, but they also have to be achievable and within expectations, otherwise they can also lead to disappointment.

 

So I’ve just quickly written down 5 personal objectives for 2025 that I think are worthwhile, but also possible. Not in any particular order:

 

1 - Remain strong, positive and in good health

2 - Pursue more of my creative ideas

3 - Enjoy life more than in 2024 

4 - Travel more in 2025

5 - Always aim to worry less and don’t overthink

 

Do you have any of your own?

The same as for 2024....none, I surrender to causality, it's what's in charge.

49 minutes ago, henryford1958 said:

At 71 my personal goal each year is to keep breathing.

See my post above yours. Got to treat every day like the last day.

16 hours ago, RSD1 said:

Do you have any of your own?

Yes, definitely. 

I've lost 12kg this year because I definitely needed to as a 5' 6" fat git!

So main personal goal is to keep it off and maybe better it.

Secondly, try to speak more Thai. 

7 hours ago, save the frogs said:

I will stop listening to Jimi Hendrix in 2025. 

 

Any particular reason?

5 hours ago, henryford1958 said:

At 71 my personal goal each year is to keep breathing.

You can achieve that and more. 👍🏼

As William W. Purkey famously once said:

 

“Dance like nobody’s watching, love like you’ve never been hurt, sing like nobody’s listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”

17 hours ago, jas007 said:

 

I'm definitely going to try to do more travel

 

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Good idea as the day may come when you're unable to do so

I will try to quit gay porn

40 minutes ago, In Full Agreement said:

Good idea as the day may come when you're unable to do so

I agree. I think everyday we need to do as much as we can now rather than plan to do things 5-10 years from now.
 

Often people's abilities or interests change over time and we may never get to those things if we put them off too much into the future. 

35 minutes ago, Celsius said:

I will try to quit gay porn

Any reason to ruin a good thing?

 

I mean, if the shoe fits...

 

 

Just sayin...

18 hours ago, RSD1 said:

I’d like to end the year on a positive note for myself and start to look forward to the coming year ahead.
 

Rather than making New Year’s resolutions, I prefer the idea of going into the following year with some personal goals.
 

Goals are great, but they also have to be achievable and within expectations, otherwise they can also lead to disappointment.

 

So I’ve just quickly written down 5 personal objectives for 2025 that I think are worthwhile, but also possible. Not in any particular order:

 

1 - Remain strong, positive and in good health

2 - Pursue more of my creative ideas

3 - Enjoy life more than in 2024 

4 - Travel more in 2025

5 - Always aim to worry less and don’t overthink

 

Do you have any of your own?

Oh don't come the raw prawn with me mate !

Do you honestly believe you will achieve all those goals ?

Not this little black duck !!!

 

8 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Oh don't come the raw prawn with me mate !

Do you honestly believe you will achieve all those goals ?

Not this little black duck !!!

 

So you've stopped taking your meds for New Year's. Nice one!

 

Any plans yet on how you will try to escape the sanitarium in 2025 without leaving your mop behind?

1 hour ago, RSD1 said:

So you've stopped taking your meds for New Year's. Nice one!

 

Any plans yet on how you will try to escape the sanitarium in 2025 without leaving your mop behind?

Yes obviously you were happy I was practically detained in the view talay 2B back in May, you didn't bother to even offer to help me "escape"