Pre Gaming...

Or pre goaling.

So last time I talked about 2025 and what I was thinking of doing I wasn't sure. I know I need to have something that I am working toward all the time or my brain kind of fritzes. So I need to have something, but I also don't know what I want to do this coming year.

Like, sure, reading, writing, working out, those are the things that keep my head clear so yeah, I will keep doing those. But tagging numbers on them isn't really all that necessary right? And the universe seems to be agreeing with me because things are lining up differently for the first time in awhile in those areas.

This new blog site doesn't sort and count blogs the way Blogger did. So like I won't have tidy little, "you wrote this much in December" tabs or "you wrote (x) blogs in 2025" sections. It's just write and post and there you go. It's not set up for counting.

The new book tracking site I'm switching to (StoryGraph) doesn't have the same "set your reading goal" thing that Goodreads did. They have a LOT of really cool things and you can join different reading challenges that other people set up, like I'm playing book bingo from The Bloggess and that's fun, but they don't have the strict hit these numbers goals.

Changing to Bluesky from Facebook and Instagram means a different format there so the PoD doesn't really work. I've been finishing out December still posting those shots there, but that's only because I need to finish things out. The same way I'm double posting blogs here and on Blogger and tracking books both on StoryGraph and Goodreads. But that will all stop in January.

I had talked before about focusing on things that bring me joy. Or at least peace of mind in 2025. Gold (and other color) stars bring me joy. I think I'm going to go back to my literal star tracking in my planner. I want to write more days than I don't, so each day I write, BOOM star. I want to workout at least 5 days a week. So each workout day BOOM star. Reading probably won't be stars, but it will be everyday. Because I read everyday. That's just me. I just won't focus on how many books, which frees that part of my head that counts books up to focus on something else, which is good because King has a new book coming out this year and Uncle Stevie writes some BIG books.

I'll firm it up a little in my January 1st blog. Because that's my thing. But I think that's the basic framework.

Joy
Peace of Mind
AND ALL THE FUCKING STARS!