2022 Plans - Preliminary

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I think it’s good to write down what you’re hoping to achieve and a calendar year seems to be a nice thematic way to do so. This isn’t a set of New Years resolutions. This is just a collection of things that I would like to keep doing, start doing or stop doing entirely. It’s a preliminary list as I’ll likely update it in the near future as I understand more. I’ve loosely categorised these as below. These are mostly bullet points at the moment.

General Life

  • Reintroduce daily meditation back into my life
  • Sell my car, purchase an e-bike and use it to get around the city
  • Purchase a gravel bike (looking at the Trek Checkpoint ALR5 at the moment) and go for some longer road and gravel rides
  • Have a long holiday (6 weeks) to refresh myself
  • Try bike packing/touring
  • Try to introduce more digital minimalism into my life
    • Try to work away from my phone where possible.
  • Continue to introduce quantified life tracking here outside of weight, sleep and heart rate variability.
  • Try out Twitter for a one month period, determine whether it can introduce value into my life
  • Start exploring locations where I can develop cabin
  • Try and make 3 new friends

Health and Fitness

  • Remain uninjured
  • Try Brazilian Jiu Jitsu out
  • Continue abstaining from alcohol entirely
  • Continue low carb diet for the next 12 months
  • Continue handbalancing
    • Consistent HSPU and Handstand Press
    • Continue working towards 1 arm
    • Start to introduce different shapes
  • Run a half marathon
  • Achieve the splits
  • Cycle a half century and a full century on the bike
  • Aim to maintain bodyweight at around 80-81kg

Career

  • Work out what the next career progression step is
  • Maintain enthusiasm, diligence and productivity
  • Try to become more task oriented and less procrastination oriented in my work
  • Work out how to leave work at work and stop letting it follow me home

Personal Finance

  • Hit a 65% savings rate in 2022 and maintain expenses <$55,000 AUD
  • Continue to invest in equities, no change to current allocation or mortgage paydown principles
  • Spend less money on eating out
  • Spend more money on making things, trips and my hobbies
  • Continue working towards an ERE style “systems thinking” approach to life

DIY and House

  • Finish the required house repairs
  • Try out basic wood working
  • Set up living area with custom built work benches
  • Finish the pipe book case
  • Try out a small indoor hydroponics system
  • Set up a Raspberry Pi based home automation server using HASS

Leatherworking

  • Continue making small goods
  • Develop a brand, set up a store and instagram for this
  • Hit $1,000 in sales from the store
  • Purchase more quality tools, set up a proper work bench to reduce the overhead of having to get things out each and every time
  • Things I want to try making
    • A leather bag, start with a tote bag
    • Leather shoes

Reading

  • Read 40 books in 2022
  • Main themes to read more on:
    • Ecomodernism/technological advances
    • Classic literature
    • Science Fiction and Fantasy
    • Health and Fitness literature
    • Diet/Low Carb/High Fat/Performance literature
  • Read Less
    • Socio-critical critiques

General Skills

  • Cooking
    • Learn how to debone and fillet a fish
    • Learn how to debone and break down a whole chicken
  • Sewing/Tailoring
    • Pick up a sewing machine and learn how to tailor my clothes
  • Programming
    • Try out Clojure again
  • Writing
    • Aim to write 12 blog posts in 2022