Forget the traditional New Year’s resolutions that tend to be empty promises to yourself that go woefully unfulfilled.

Instead, with the calendar turning over to 2025 this week, make some goals for yourself that are truly attainable and will help improve your life in some significant way.

It could be a health goal, a learning goal, a career goal, or how about a combination of various targets that can and will be achieved by you in the new year!

When setting your goals, also give yourself realistic timelines to achieve them so as to not be discouraged or let down if you miss a deadline that was too ambitious.

On that note, here are my realistic and attainable goals for 2025 (if you like them, find a way to make them your own) . . .

Read at least four new books. I have three at home that are already on the must-read list and in order to further motivate myself, I’m committing to writing a review of each after I’m done. And maybe I’ll even ask the author to visit the podcast – whether they accept or not is another story.

Learn a new skill. Whether it’s getting better at video editing, audio editing, or another media career related skill, I will learn something new this year through online courses and hands-on trial and error (I’ve always been better at learning through sink or swim methods). Once I do, I’ll be sure to share what I’ve learned.

Do a minimum of three 30-minute workouts a week. This is something I was doing for a while and on top of playing weekly soccer games, but then started slacking over the last couple months of 2024. I’m committing to myself to three workouts a week as I know I can stick to that. Any more will be bonus.

Continue to improve my eating habits. Thanks to my fabulous partner in life Kandis, I’ve made great strides in improving my eating habits in the past year. Since I’m already on the right track, it’s an easy commitment to do even better in the next 12 months.

Make my podcasts and blog better than ever. This is another easy one as I’ve put some of the necessary foundational ideas in motion already to improve The Chris O Show (and add another regular show under the banner) while leaning the blog to what I’m most interested and excited about in the coming months.

Be better at staying in touch with the coolest people I know. You know who you are, I know who you are, and I know we’re always cool with each other no matter how long we go without talking, but still, I need to be better at making sure we see each other more in 2025.

Okay, those are my attainable goals for the next 12 months. Of course, I have other longer-term goals that I’ll be working towards, but those five are easy to accomplish, and in combination they nurture the mind, body, and soul along the way.

Happy New Year Everyone! Ciao for now!

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