2025
goals
2025 is the year where I need to make and invest as much money as I can in order to free up the rest of my life in meaningful roles that don't necessarily pay much, or sometimes anything! Conservation is calling.
Additionally, growth, not simple hedonism, will be the principle aspiration. Let's get going!
Personal
-Main goal: pursue growth. Focus on the future. Invest money. Develop new skills. Growth existing skills. Spend free time acquiring knowledge, learning, pushing self. Read books. Listen to podcasts. Have the tough conversations. Disagree. Articulate. Fail. Succeed. Grow.
Secondary goals: Enjoy every moment - easy or tough. Have fun. Dissolve the ego. Be a minimalist in possessions, but a 'maximalist' in experiences. Remember life is short, youth and health are ephemeral, and there's so much I want to do, to be doing, and to have done.
Adventure Goals
-Main goal: get back into adventure. I want to do some awesome canyons, a few caves again, a multi-day backpacking trip, a new national park, climb a peak with our glacier gear and definitely reach some tropical beaches.
Get in tip-top endurance physique for long approaches with heavy backpacks. Big stuff's a-coming.
Relationship Goals
-Treat her as best you can. Relationship is precious, time is fleeting, and no moment is not special.
-Try to get family abroad for big trip (again!) -with or without myself! If I can motivate them to travel independently, it's a success.
-Make a new friend. Keep old friends. Don't be afraid to give respect to those that deserve it.
Health Goals
-Main goal: continue with excellent health, and always try to improve in weightlifting, endurance, diet and 9-hour sleep practices. My sleep schedules got wrecked in the winter of 2024-2025 with varying, mostly nightshift work schedules in seemingly perpetual darkness, opposite Suhei's schedule, and I aim to sleep better for 2025.
I don't see any needs for significant tweaks in my weightlifting routine.
Diet: more organic, less processed stuff. My diet's been great, but there's always room to improve. After returning from Europe in late 2024, I had a week of stomach troubles in the US from the food. That's a sign to change!
Endurance: I still have a desire for long adventure, mountains, and outdoors pursuits requiring good endurance. This year I'd like to improve my endurance, such as by being able to run a few miles, better times hiking uphill with a pack, etc.
And most of all: realize health is precious and not eternal. There are billions of people that would kill to have perfect health like I do, and I best not take it for granted!
Career Goals
-Main Goal: Work a ton in the ER. Earn the money while nursing rates are still good, but it likely won't last. Take overtime, start the new job in Cut Bank to try something new, excel at my job. Consider - consider - applying for a master's in conservation or related.
Travel Goals
Travel is not the priority for early, or even much of, 2025. But, it will be hopefully THE priority by late 2025 (goal: South Pacific, Western Australia).
Hopefully, we can do a week of canyoneering in Monterey in March, another week of canyoneering in Utah in April, a TBD packraft adventure in May, maybe Mount Rainier in June, Greenland in July (big trip! Three weeks!?) and interspersed with smaller mountain jaunts in the Rockies the rest of the time.
In early 2025 as I write this, we're still processing 2024's massive trip as we work overtime and save our money. Travel goals will come, and it's going to be awesome.