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My Goals for 2025.

January 1st 2025. I love typing it. 2025-01-01. The first day of the year.

After I shared my 2024-in-review, Famichiki user @slims, shared his, listing not just highlights of his years but also listing goals.

I really liked that idea, so this year ,thanks @slims for the inspiration, I’m going to set my own goals as well. I’ll be splitting up my goals in 3 sections. Personal, Professional, and Social. I want to make sure my goals are attainable so I don’t get dissuaded from giving up if I end up behind schedule.

Personal Goals

Move Back to Japan

Without a doubt the largest goal is to move back to Japan by September 2025. Giving myself, my wife, our cat, and newborn, ample of time to prepare.

Read More

One book a month, with a total of 12 books for the year. Anything more than that will be a win.

Continue my Japanese Studies

Although I get by well enough reading and speaking casual Japanese, I want to at least make some inroads into reaching business level Japanese. To achieve that, I want to study at least 5 hours a week.

Get Back to Working Out

Health permitting, I want to work out at least 4 times a week. Whether it’s cardio or weight training, it has to happen!

Professional Goals

Get one new customer in Japan

As you may know, I run a small software development shop/consultancy, and most of my customers are in Europe, MENA and SEA. With me moving to Japan, I want to get at least one long-term customer by the end of the year.

Social Goals

The Famichiki Mastodon Meetup of 2025

In 2025 our lil’ Mastodon server will have existed for 3 years. To celebrate, I want to schedule a meetu;. I don’t know what it’ll look like, but this is definitely something I’m excited about organising. I can’t do it by myself, so there will be more announcements soon.

Attend more events

Once I’m back in Japan I want to attend at lrast one tech event a month, and speak at at least one of them in 2025.

Sharing my Django Knowledge

I’ve been developing Python applications with Django for more than 10 years. I think it’s time for me to share my knowledge. Working with many organizations, I see the same issues over and over, so I have good insights into what I should be talking about. Back in the days, I was a big of an of making videos, so I want to do this in a YouTube format. Short videos, less than 10 minutes. Easy to digest. I want to produce two videos a month.

The TL;DR

  1. Move back to Japan by September
  2. Read one book a month
  3. 5 hours of Japanese lessons a week
  4. Work out 4 times a week
  5. Get one new customer in Japan
  6. Organize a Mastodon meetup in November
  7. Attend one tech event a month
  8. Speak at one tech event in 2025
  9. Produce one YouTube video every two weeks.