2025 Goals

I love reading others’ goal post and slowly reflected on my vision for this new year, new beginning, new life, new challenge.

My word of the year (work wise) is: PIVOT. My role will shift from doing and leading tasks to support others to do so, and to provide strategic advice to the bosses.

Other goals are more of continuation of what has worked well so far, and more daily mindfulness for bigger goals.

Goals by categories a la Sarah:

Personal:

• Strength training: 3+ sessions per week. This is more ambitious than previous year but will give it a try. I am starting with the CG Iron series, plan to do it twice, once now, once later this year to see progress.
• Running: new marathon PR and new short distance PR (maybe 5k). Given my delayed move, I’ll sign up for NYC marathon and find a local 5k.
• Reading: I want to read both mornings and evenings. I read mostly in the evenings, sometimes only few minutes as I get so sleepy. I want to start reading on non-rushed mornings.
• Journaling: I want to resume filling 5 years journal, record my strength sessions, and do a end of a day reflection. I was not consistent with the practice, and I come to think because I wasn’t sure about my why. I thought I was doing it for posteriori, which I don’t do (I rarely review my previous entries). I just realized that the biggest benefit for daily journal is time to pause, digest, reflect what happened.
• Regular auditing of my goals. Last year I checked on how I am doing with my goals once. This year I want to be consistent, doing an audit every month as part of the planning process.
• Update my work attire. I haven’t bought work cloth for years, except batik. They still fit but wear and tear is becoming noticeable. Time to update, something that I am not big fan of. I love buying workout and casual clothes, but work clothes less so.
• Be kind to myself. Give permission to do nothing more often, skip a run or workout when I am sleep deprived, stop working when I can’t focus even though there’s a deadline, etc. The upcoming months will be hard in many ways, physically and mentally, I want to learn to give myself more permission to not do what I automatically think I should do.

Family

• Read with the girls as part of night winding down routine. We all love reading but we don’t get a comfortable place to do so together. With our new house in Brasilia, I want to have a reading space for us.
• 1:1 time with the girls. It could be a walk, a ice cream date, a meal alone. Simple things in a weekly basis to connect with them.
• Kids make meals on weekends. Sofia has started baking, this year she will start cooking meals. Lizzy will be her assistant.
• Do more fun activities like board game, go to movie together, go biking, etc.
• Find daily connection time with husband. As we move to a new place, I’ll have adult interaction as work, he won’t, so I need to be mindful of checking on him.

Relationships

• Set up regular catch up calls with best friends.
• Plan a trip with a close friend.
• Connect with mom every day, either a quick call on my way to work or text given the time difference.
• Be open to meeting new people in Brasilia. Now that I know we will be here 3+ years, I want to invest in new friendships.
• Host weekend gatherings.

Work

• Build connection with new colleagues.
• Learn Portuguese. I’ll start the language program soon and commit to spend 0.5-1 hr a day.
• Be mindful of my new role, seek advice often.

Fun

• Find new family activities in Brasilia: biking? horse riding? soccer?
• Explore new places in the region: Buenos Aires, ski trip in Argentina, Machu Picchu (?), Rio de Janeiro.

While life will be in the flux until mid-year, I will try to incorporate these goals no matter what. I can always make excuses to start later, or I can try to incorporate them as much as I can even during non-normal time. 🙂 I am excited for 2025! It will be another memorable year for us.