New Month's Resolutions 2025

January :fast_forward_button: February :white_check_mark: March :fast_forward_button: April :cross_mark:
May :white_check_mark: - now this goal, initially set to go for two months, is finished, and I consider it a success. More detailed impressions in my journaling thread.
June :fast_forward_button: - it was fun and nice to try out this additional metric for tracking my reading progress. At no time was I anywhere close to the YBR, so the goal did not really nudge me to do anything - but it is satisfying to see that I am actually reading 50 pages/day on average and even more, even in a month when reading was so much not my focus as in this one. The yellow lines help see that I am ahead of the rate. Will keep for a while.


For July, I will try to reuse the success strategy of the May goal, creating a new one where I will have to work for a specific number of pomos a day just on a list of specific tasks within my project (in addition to other ways I track the total time on project). The list will include four papers that need to be pushed each to a next stage in the nearest future, from just sending in an updated abstract for the edited collection proposal (a couple of hours of work), to looking through a language editor’s corrections and submitting a manuscript (a couple of days of work), to revising a manuscript based on reviews (a few days’ to a couple of weeks’ amount of work - haven’t seen the reviews yet, just was told they arrived), to writing one from scratch for a conference in early October. (Yes, I do sometimes doubt my life choices but at least I will hopefully have a few publications all at once soon) Will start with 2 pomos/day for the rest of this week - to take some time to look broader and see what else I have been missing, then 6/day, weekends off. Tracked through Intend.

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