# shanaqui’s Beeminder Journal: 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [January 3, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaqui-s-beeminder-journal-2025/12102 "2025-01-03T17:41:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaqui-s-beeminder-journal-2025/12102/28 "2025-06-06T15:24:28Z")
## Opening thoughts: Juuust gotta get through the exams… Though I did want to talk a bit about the new fine print I put on one of my goals to define it a bit more! So maybe I’ll add a section about that… ## New goals: - [/showerbyten](https://beeminder.com/shanaqui/showerbyten) - A replacement for my “bedtime” goal below – the thing that most often stops me being ready for bed on time is the need to go and shower etc etc. I usually shower and brush my teeth _right_ before bed, so okay, what if I’ve already done it? So we’ll see how this goes. ## Changes to existing goals: - [/bedtime](https://beeminder.com/shanaqui/bedtime) - This was a New Month Resolution experiment and I don’t think it worked well, even though I kept up with it. Not the right lever to pull. ## Musing on fine print: I have a few goals which all work synergistically toward the same end: stop my backlog of owned and unread books growing exponentially. In theory the goal is to reduce the backlog, but I’m not _super_ worried about that in and of itself – I’m more worried about all the great books I already have that I’m not reading. So I have [/toberead](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/toberead) (overall backlog) pushing me to work on my owned-unread books backlog, [/2025books](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/2025books) (books bought in 2025 and not yet read) keeping me reading what I buy fairly quickly, and [/2025backlog](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/2025backlog) (books read that I owned before 2025) all pushing me to read older books and not buy more new books than I can sensibly read. It’s a bit like a very elaborate version of Danny’s “isolate the backlog” strategies. The problem was that this weekend I had a book-buying spree that I was pretty sure had the potential to derail me on [/2025books](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/2025books), and I felt like I was maybe cheating in not cataloguing it right away (even though I never do). So me and my wife worked out some fine print for it, which is public so you can check it out there, based on what I actually _do_ when the goal doesn’t exist vs what we think would be actually self-defeating behaviour. Oh, and I didn’t derail on the new goal. I had to start three books on the day I catalogued the books, but that’s fine – I’ve finished them all already, and they were really good, especially Paul Koudounaris’ [_Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs_](https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/463721a3-126b-429e-88a4-87a7aba33215). ## Closing thoughts: Just gotta get through the exams… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaqui-s-beeminder-journal-2025/12102)._