Nice post, Josh, and I appreciate your intentionality about cultivating the aspects of yourself that you'd like to deepen.
Without getting into specific detail, my 2025 goals include the following: expand my work and my knowledge of the subject matter; do many more in-person interviews and perhaps expand this into a business, maybe not*, explore different work opportunities, be consistent with reading and writing, maintain and deepen my existing relationships, perhaps move where I live, connect more with the writers whose work I respect, get better at piano, and visit family members. I'll come up with more...
* This doesn't relate to politics but rather to proper estate planning: lots of people die and maybe leave their kids and/or grandchildren money, but there is no legacy otherwise. The idea is to sit down and record the older generation in a long interview, their life story, their dreams and challenges and beliefs, so that their grandchildren and generations thereafter can get a sense of who they were. Without the intentionality of something like this a person's whole life will get lost in the wind much faster. I've done this with a couple family members so far and want to do more.
I like the idea of recording older generations in an interview! Properly anonymized and with their consent, this could be something that I think would be really enjoyable to read, at least for me!
I tried to connect with God numerous ways throughout the years and kept running into dryness and dullness. Discovering Orthodox Christianity in 2020 through Fr. Seraphim Rose’s writings was one of the best things that ever happened to me. Check it out, it changed my life forever for the better.
Nice post, Josh, and I appreciate your intentionality about cultivating the aspects of yourself that you'd like to deepen.
Without getting into specific detail, my 2025 goals include the following: expand my work and my knowledge of the subject matter; do many more in-person interviews and perhaps expand this into a business, maybe not*, explore different work opportunities, be consistent with reading and writing, maintain and deepen my existing relationships, perhaps move where I live, connect more with the writers whose work I respect, get better at piano, and visit family members. I'll come up with more...
* This doesn't relate to politics but rather to proper estate planning: lots of people die and maybe leave their kids and/or grandchildren money, but there is no legacy otherwise. The idea is to sit down and record the older generation in a long interview, their life story, their dreams and challenges and beliefs, so that their grandchildren and generations thereafter can get a sense of who they were. Without the intentionality of something like this a person's whole life will get lost in the wind much faster. I've done this with a couple family members so far and want to do more.
I like the idea of recording older generations in an interview! Properly anonymized and with their consent, this could be something that I think would be really enjoyable to read, at least for me!
I tried to connect with God numerous ways throughout the years and kept running into dryness and dullness. Discovering Orthodox Christianity in 2020 through Fr. Seraphim Rose’s writings was one of the best things that ever happened to me. Check it out, it changed my life forever for the better.
Will do! Thanks!