# New Year's Resolutions (2025) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Johnny.Decimal system\ **Created:** [January 5, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028 "2025-01-05T18:15:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![clappingcactus](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/clappingcactus/32/502_2.png) [@clappingcactus](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/clappingcactus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/1 "2025-01-05T18:15:09Z")
Happy New Year, everyone! Thought we’d be social not just matter-of-factly-business-minded every now and again? I have a few big items that are just going to be on auto-pilot (enforced through either work or relationships), but for the things I have control of, I have set a challenge for myself to just set a high score for number of books read this year. No actual goal, just pretending I’ve never read before, and trying to see what number I get to by December 31st. So far I’m one and a half books in. EDIT: Second sub-goal is “no new projects”. I aim to set a second high score for “number of open projects completed in a year”. Again, no actual goal number, just an open highway feeling of hoping to really impress myself. What’s on everyone else’s hopes list for this year? ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/2 "2025-01-05T22:29:32Z")
Nice one. Definitely more reading for me as well, as a consequence of my own desire to [check less nonsense on the internet](https://jdcm.al/22.00.0096). Six days in and it’s working _really well_. I’m curious what you’re reading? I’ve had Frank Trentmann’s [_Empire of Things_](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/empire-of-things-frank-trentmann) on the shelf for ages so I’m in to that. Ties in nicely with our recent [purge of household items](https://jdcm.al/22.00.0095) – after the office we spent the next week chucking away a bunch of stuff from the rest of the house. 100% recommended. I just burned through the Jack Reacher short story collection, and now I’ve got the War of the Worlds ebook out from the library on my iPad. I read someone’s list of tips on how to read more and the couple that stood out were: 1. If you don’t like a book, stop reading it! Full agree here. 2. Have one fiction and two non-fiction on the go. Then you can read whatever you’re in the mood for. ---
**Author:** ![Jayde20](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jayde20](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/Jayde20)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/3 "2025-01-06T09:39:15Z")
> [@johnnydecimal](#): > > Frank Trentmann’s [_Empire of Things_](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/empire-of-things-frank-trentmann) @johnnydecimal you might like Dr Anna Lempka - dopamine nation ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/4 "2025-01-06T21:56:45Z")
Reserved from the library! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![clappingcactus](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/clappingcactus/32/502_2.png) [@clappingcactus](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/clappingcactus)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/5 "2025-01-07T10:59:29Z")
> [@johnnydecimal](#): > > Nice one. Definitely more reading for me as well, as a consequence of my own desire to [check less nonsense on the internet](https://jdcm.al/22.00.0096). Six days in and it’s working _really well_. > > I’m curious what you’re reading? So far I’ve read Jimmy Carr’s [Before & Laughter](https://www.jimmycarr.com/product/book-laughter/), and David Bessis’s [Mathematica](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300283280/mathematica/). I highly recommend only the latter. It’s rare that a book tickles one’s sense of curiosity. There’s books that _kickstart_ it, or books that _drive_ it. But this book only points it out, then shows how it can be turned into math. Very cute, confidence inducing book. > [@johnnydecimal](#): > > 1. Have one fiction and two non-fiction on the go. Then you can read whatever you’re in the mood for. Ohh this is a trick I should pick up. Next book up is Anna Karenina, but I am afraid of its length so having some non fiction on the side might be nice. ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/6 "2025-01-07T21:02:10Z")
Ooh the latter looks _right_ up my alley. As one might imagine, I’m a bit of a maths nerd. ---
**Author:** ![claudinec](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/claudinec/32/1216_2.png) [@claudinec](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/claudinec)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/7 "2025-01-08T01:59:09Z")
Happy new year everyone! Looks like I haven’t actually posted here even though I’ve been lurking for ages. Seems like a good thread for me to make my first post though. I don’t do new year’s resolutions per se as (being in Australia) December tends to be a stressful end-of-the-work-year period and that’s not the best mindset for me to bring to planning. Generally over Christmas to mid-January I make some time to do a sort of yearly review with the help of [YearCompass](https://yearcompass.com/). If nothing else, I try to come up with a word phrase/theme for the new year. I do have one JD-related short-term project pencilled in for January though: simplify/consolidate my system/s. I discovered JD a few years ago when I was studying part time and doing a bit of freelance/consulting in my previous career, so I built a PRO.AC.ID system. Johnny’s moved on from that, and my life is a bit simpler now (I graduated and am working in my new field) so I can at least think of replacing the various ‘PRO’/project prefixes with a smaller set. The twist is that I graduated in library science so I have to resist the temptation to Dewey Decimal everything 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/8 "2025-01-08T08:42:44Z")
> [@claudinec](#): > > The twist is that I graduated in library science **YOU DID WHAT** Please at your leisure start a new thread and tell us things we don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/hans/32/719_2.png) [@hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/hans)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/9 "2025-01-08T10:05:15Z")
I second that! ---
**Author:** ![clappingcactus](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/clappingcactus/32/502_2.png) [@clappingcactus](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/clappingcactus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/10 "2025-01-09T15:34:01Z")
> [@claudinec](#): > > Generally over Christmas to mid-January I make some time to do a sort of yearly review with the help of [YearCompass](https://yearcompass.com/). If nothing else, I try to come up with a word phrase/theme for the new year. This is very cool. For me 2024 was a year of finding direction, and I’d say I did that pretty well, but I haven’t caught up on my year yet. I just printed YearCompass, and the JD 93 Workbook Section. I’ve organized my personal projects area in my JD by emotional needs that the projects fulfill. I’ll go through YearCompass first to catch up on last year and see how I feel about it all, then double back through the workbook to see if I missed any glaring emotional needs in my JD system. Thanks for the rec! I’d also be curious if you’ve done YearCompass more than once or twice if you ever see re-occurrences? Like if you feel your life is somehow some kind of loop? ---
**Author:** ![Jayde20](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jayde20](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/Jayde20)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/11 "2025-01-09T15:37:51Z")
I started reading, but temporarily putting the read on hold. Would love to hear your thoughts on it once you get a chance to read it ---
**Author:** ![claudinec](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/claudinec/32/1216_2.png) [@claudinec](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/claudinec)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/12 "2025-01-10T01:03:52Z")
I think I started doing YearCompass just before or during the pandemic, and funnily enough, the first few years did feel like a loop ☹ I didn’t do it last year because I felt stuck in a rut which is … a great reason to do YearCompass. I haven’t completed 2024-2025 yet but I’m trying to be more intentional about observing how things have been changing (maybe even improving) in my life and in how I view the world. ---
**Author:** ![claudinec](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/claudinec/32/1216_2.png) [@claudinec](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/claudinec)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/13 "2025-01-22T03:08:16Z")
I have a whole stack of blog posts and forum posts that I want to start … when I get round to this one I’ll start a thread or maybe stick it in [Dewey Decimal system](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/dewey-decimal-system/1864) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![clappingcactus](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/clappingcactus/32/502_2.png) [@clappingcactus](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/clappingcactus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/14 "2025-01-22T06:53:39Z")
> [@claudinec](#): > > I have a whole stack of blog posts and forum posts that I want to start … when I get round to this one I’ll start a thread or maybe stick it in [Dewey Decimal system](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/dewey-decimal-system/1864) 🙂 How did your YearCompass go? For me 2025 is the year of “closing chapters”. One way or another I’m ending the year mentally lighter by either tying a bow or writing an ending on many of my open storylines. One of those chapters is a July/August knitting together of all my previous blogs/posts into a new more minimal/maintainable blog. If you get to that time scale and want a writing buddy, happy to do weekly check ins or quiet zoom writing hours for shared motivation. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/hans/32/719_2.png) [@hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/hans)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/15 "2025-01-22T07:40:58Z")
@claudinec @clappingcactus unstarted and unfinished blog posts take up about half of my daily brain space. I like the idea of putting a timeline on when you’ll deal with that. Please count me in when/if you feel the need for a writing accountability group, anyone. ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/16 "2025-01-22T07:53:09Z")
> [@clappingcactus](#): > > For me 2025 is the year of “closing chapters”. Interesting. Anything you’re comfortable sharing? We are in a similar situation. Close/open. I’ll write a couple of blog posts in the next day or two once I’m mentally able. Until then, wish us luck. ---
**Author:** ![hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/hans/32/719_2.png) [@hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/hans)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/18 "2025-01-22T12:57:27Z")
Thanks so much for sharing. > [@clappingcactus](#): > > If … I realize I need to tinker with it again, it’s time for therapy. (Only half joking) yeah, me too, including the half-joking part … ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/19 "2025-01-22T20:46:54Z")
There’s a lot in here that’s very familiar to me. I wish you well. I have a couple of blog posts I need to try to type up today. Change is afoot here at JDHQ … mostly really great, with a good dose of tragedy thrown in because that’s life. ---
**Author:** ![hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/hans/32/719_2.png) [@hans](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/hans)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/20 "2025-01-23T07:12:06Z")
😬 ---
**Author:** ![johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/user_avatar/forum.johnnydecimal.com/johnnydecimal/32/1759_2.png) [@johnnydecimal](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/u/johnnydecimal)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028/21 "2025-01-23T19:39:12Z")
Lovely words from Craig Mod, as usual. You can skip to **Distractions / Attention** about half-way down. > **[Book Tour 2025, Attention, Social Media, Not Bullshit — Roden Newsletter Archive](https://craigmod.com/roden/099/)** > > Let's go on a book tour, high-five in person, and not get sucked into terrible corners of the internet [Next page](https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/new-years-resolutions-2025/2028.md?page=2)