Go through last year’s calendar week by week. If you see an important event, family gathering, friendly get-together or a significant project, write it down here.

What does the year ahead of you look like? Why will it be great? What would happen in an ideal world? Write, draw, let go of your expectations and dare to dream.

Primarily, it's me doing my own thing, which could look many different ways. Content creation, my own apps, 508, whatever. I get these things in such a way that they sustain my life so I can then focus on changing the world in the ways I want it to.

Take a look at the areas of your life and decide your goals for each of them for the next year. Put those goals on the page—this is the first step towards realizing them.

1. personal life, family
   1. Tammy and I's wedding is a huge thing, I want it to be really fun
   2. Hopefully I can help my family come back to Taiwan
   3. I want to enter stage 2 of using trilium / the hobonichi, see how far I can take this reflection/planning
   4. Plan a bit more, not have the reins of my life in the hands of chaos
2. career, studies
   1. Be self-sustaining through my own businesses
   2. Learn, hopefully, a new programming language finally. Django?
   3. Explore lots of business opportunities
   4. Really put my head down and actually get things done at 508
   5. get some FOSS commits in
   6. Zetelkasten
3. friends, community
   1. Get and stay connected in some sustainable way with my friends (personal CRM?)
   2. Make lots of new friends, especially Taiwanese ones
   3. Develop a community around 508, the cone club, and in general my social life in Taiwan. Be the community leader I know I can be. Spend LOTS of time with friends.
4. relaxation, hobbies, creativity
   1. Deeply explore creativity
      1. drumming
      2. writing
      3. drawing?
   2. Lock in on a couple hobbies and intentionally focus on them
   3. Experiment regularly with new hobbies
   4. Make relaxation intentional and purposeful, rather than dopamine slop
5. physical health, fitness
   1. you know it, except this time, the wedding is here. It really is zero hour for weight loss. 85kg. It's possible.
   2. Explore this new love of lifting
6. mental health, self-knowledge
   1. Actualize the discovery I'm having around energy being functionally limitless, if you do things that expend it so as to generate it, such as working out, cold showers, giving myself lots of time in the morning
7. habits that define you
   1. Journaling, reviewing, planning
   2. Stretching
   3. Meditating, it's really important I get a good experiment in with this being really consistent, it's what was missing from this year
   4. Exercise
   5. Writing, lots and lots of it
   6. Avoiding the dopamine slop
8. a better tomorrow\* \* What will you do next year to leave the world in a better shape than you found it?
   1. Grow 508 in a way that frees more than just me from the throes of capitalism; unlock higher salaries for people
   2. Inspire people with my writing
   3. Grow a community for people
   4. Influence the traffic problems in Taiwan, possibly with content creation?

1. I will love these three things about myself.
   1. My self exploration and insightfulness; creativity, curiousity
   2. My abilities granted to me by ADHD
   3. My social abilities
2. I am ready to let go of these three things.
   1. Dopamine Candy (reddit, hackernews, youtube, even MEMES!)
   2. Food as Comfort - it's a MAJOR energy giver and a joyful thing, so I want to transform it into something very intentional and focused, rather than a daily crutch. Swap in other energy givers and comforts
   3. Tendency to spend money lol
3. I want to achieve these three things the most.
   1. Weight loss, strength improvement
   2. Lots of reading and writing done
   3. Exploring what kind of life I can create for myself
4. These three people will be my pillars during rough times.
   1. Tammy
   2. Riley
   3. Michael, Thomas, Bogdan
5. I will dare to discover these three things.
   1. What are my capabilities when fending for myself and being in charge?
   2. What happens when I really try to build a community?
   3. What happens when I stop letting myself fear failure, in that sneaky insidious way that I do? When I really bite the bullet, let go of cynicism?
6. I will have the power to say no to these three things.
   1. Dopamine Candy
   2. Depressive food slumps, and food in general
   3. Long morning showers
7. I will make my surroundings cozy with these three things.
   1. Good music
   2. Comic books and other nice things to read
   3. Cleanliness, organization
8. I will do these three things every morning.
   1. Exercise
   2. Shower quickly
   3. Stretch
   4. Meditate
9. I will pamper myself with these three things regularly.
   1. Long showers
   2. Comics, good things to read, intentionally chosen videos to listen to while cleaning or whatever
   3. Videogames
10. I will visit these three places.
    1. Taiwan mountains, especially for coworking
    2. Japan
    3. Southeast Asia
11. I will connect with my loved ones in these three ways.
    1. Staying in touch on messages
    2. Engaging in intimacy with Tammy
    3. Planning and doing activities, initiated by me
12. I will reward my successes with these three presents.
    1. New clothes when I lose weight
    2. A trip to Japan
    3. Spa experiences

1. This year I will not procrastinate any more over…
   1. Large tasks that need planning to do
   2. Doing things in Mandarin
   3. Causing my day to start
   4. Going to bed (damn, realization, I literally procrastinate sleeping lol)
2. This year I will draw the most energy from…
   1. Physical activity
   2. Getting out of the house
      1. especially to cowork in pretty places
      2. perhaps to map out the city
   3. creative activities
      1. drumming
      2. intentionally making drinks, food
      3. writing
      4. drawing?
      5. programming for fun
   4. cleaning, organizing
   5. review, planning
   6. small trips
   7. my friends, hanging out with them
   8. reading
   9. videogames
   10. long showers (at night), tub
3. This year, I will be bravest when…
   1. I'm hungry, or wanting to eat out of boredom / depression
   2. I lack self confidence
   3. The task is large, seemingly not worth it, or beyond my capabilities
   4. I want to consume dopamine candy
4. This year I will say yes when…
   1. Asked if I can do something that is hard
   2. Opportunities to meet new people
   3. Opportunities for competition
   4. Opportunities for intimacy with Tammy
5. This year I advise myself to…
   1. say No when I need to regain my energy or get other things done
   2. Take it day by day; big tasks, task by task; bite sized pieces, don't allow something to become high friction by overthinking it. Look how full the Hobonichi is, just because I filled it out nearly every day. Look how full the Trilium is, and how much information I have in the Year Review
   3. Keep alert, notice the time passing. Don't let old ADHD habits take over, or highly addictive ADHD activities to consume me (posting on reddit)
6. This year will be special for me because…
   1. I learned so much the year before, and am going into the next year loaded up with a lot of information on how to focus, avoid depression, be productive
   2. I have a system set up for reviewing and planning that works well, i don't need to keep fiddling with it
   3. On that note, a lot of my systems are working now: the auto backups on the NAS, the server, all my self hosted stuff, my IDE and environment (hyprland)
   4. Crossing over halfway point of my 30s
   5. I'll be married by the end of it
   6. I'll be doing my own things in business and content creation, trying to learn who I really am and what I really want to be doing.

Experimentation

508 makes me rich, I get SHREDDED, and my content creation blows me up into a major figure.