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In 2024 I decided to change how I set my new years goals. In order to keep the list of goals from growing unwieldy like they had in the past I decided to have three goals for three aspects of my personal life. The parts of my life I decided to focus on are mental, physical and spiritual.

For 2025 my goals were:

Spiritual : Finish reading the bible
Mental : Create a web application (in particular a standalone bible application.)
Physical : Run a 24 minute 5K

2025 Goals Review

Spiritual ✅

I was finally able to finish reading the bible this year. I remember stating this goal to my grandmother when I was in college over 14 years ago at this point and I still remember my grandmother telling me "That's a long book". I finally did finish the bible in 2025, I had been reading a couple chapters a day off and on for 2 - 3 years at this point and finally stayed consistent with it this year and laid out a plan. I finally finished the full bible in September.

Mental ❌

My goal here was to finish the bible and in tandem also make my standalone bible application that I've been thinking of making for a couple years now. While I didn't get this goal done this year I did make some progress by standing up and initial backend for the application. Other progress I made towards having my own information system external to work was updating this blog this year.

Physical ❌

The goal here was to hit 24 minutes in a 5K, it didn't matter if it was 24:59 just wanted to have 24 at the beginning of the finish time. I wanted this goal because it'd mean sustaining low 8 minute miles throughout the 5K. I did not hit this goal my fastest ParkRun last year was 25:23 and my FAT times were:

AFCEA 5K 2025 - 26:50 (Talked shit before and Renard smoked me)
Westover 5K - 10K - 26:51 (Did this race with Josh)

On the bright side I did get over 425 miles in on Strava in 2025.

Overview

Was proud to have finally finished the bible. I think my key to accomplish more goals going forward is to be consistent in chasing the goals down. It can be as simple as taking small amount of time each day to get closer to your goals. I often feel like I fall into the trap that I don't have time to get the full thing done, so I don't put time into the micro goals(e.g. do a shorter run instead of long one, code for 30 minutes to an hour to make progress on a feature.) that over time can help me complete my bigger goal. I want to do better at being consistent in pursuit of my goals in 2026. Consistently reading 2 chapters in bible a day is why I was able to accomplish my spiritual goal.

2026 Goals