New Year, New Goals

Published: 2024-01-01 9:40 AM

Category: Life | Tags: goals, 2024, reflection

What better way to start 2024 than with a blog post. I finished 2023 with 86 blog posts which is far more than I've written in several years. I was a few short of the 100 Days of Offload challenge, so this will start me off on the 2024 adventure.

There are several things I hope to do this year - some professional, some personal. I'll revisit this post at the end of the year to see how I do.

In no particular order, this year I hope to:

• Read 40 books. I used to read voraciously and I'm trying to rebuild the habit. Audiobooks count. I'm using LibraryThing to track my reading now (thanks to Alan Levine for the link to John Udell's post.)
• ✓ Add comments to this blog. I've got some work toward that goal finished, but it's no good if it's not published. (Published Jan 2, 2024).
• Cut my phone use time down to ~1 hour per day. I'm going to use Digital Wellbeing to track and I will reflect periodically on my progress. The ultimate goal would be to switch back to a flip phone full time.
• Ride my bike 150 miles. I'm not a cyclist by any means but I started doing local rides again last summer and I'd like to make it a more regular part of my leisure time. I'm using OpenTracks to track my rides.
• Get two new courses approved for 2024-25. I'm hoping to teach a beginner computer science and advanced chemistry course next school year, but we have some work to do to build out the syllabus and course sequences.

These are just a few of my bigger goals - smaller ones will come and go, but these are the ones I'll come back to in 12 months.