My Goals for 2024

Posted on January 1, 2024 by Aywren

This year, I’m going to keep my goals short and sweet. I’m going to try to stay away from numbers and focus on actions. You might note that I didn’t call this post “gaming goals” this year, because I want to include more than just gaming stuff here.

Play Games I Own

This is pretty straightforward. I want to dive into my libraries on both Switch and Steam and experience the games I own.

In past years, I’ve tried to list games I wanted to complete or slap a percentage on my Steam backlog. I’m not going to do that this year, though I will drop my current percentage played just to compare it come year end.

I specifically want to engage with games that I’m close to finishing on Switch (there are a handful) and try to work through the list of shorter time-to-beat games on Steam if possible.

Only Buy Games I Want to Play Right Away

I’m a sucker for a good deal. Sadly, a good deal is exactly what got me in trouble with my backlog in 2023.

This year, I won’t tell myself not to buy games. But I will tell myself to only buy games I want to play right away.

Chances are, if a game is on sale for a good deal once… it’ll be on sale for a good deal later. Unless I have friends who want to play the game with me right away, or it’s a game I just must have to play right now, I’m going to remind myself that I can wait until I’ve played the games I already own.

Blog About Backlog Discoveries

As I noted in a post last year, I want to make more of an effort to turn my backlog experiences into content for this blog. I wasn’t always good at doing that last year – there were so many games I played that I never wrote a review for. I was just in a rush to check boxes and mark things done.

Walk with my Pikmin

I’ve been using Pikmin Bloom as an app to help encourage better health through daily walking. I’ve enjoyed using this app quite a bit, and I have seen an increase in my daily activity due to it.

This year, I want to push my walking time up just a little bit. I usually walked for about 20-25 mins when I could. I’d like to get it to 30 mins each session. I feel like that’s very do-able at this point.

Cut Back on Unnecessary Things

I’ve already started doing this in 2023, cutting back on things I spend time on doing, but don’t really need to. I’m also trying to cut back on things that spend money that I don’t need – such as subscriptions I’m not using a whole lot.

I’m looking for ways to simplify what I do and reduce stress by letting things go. I’m starting out small for now, but I hope that eliminating small things will lead to bigger change this year.

Read More Books

All in all, I finished about 7 books last year – counting audio books that I listened to. I’d like to do more this year. I have a bunch of books in my Audible backlog. I also discovered that Spotify premium offers audio books too.

I’ve also got a crazy huge library of books on my Kindle, because I keep picking up the free (mostly indy) ebooks I see. I may have to sort through those and let the lower-quality ones go, but just reading more in general is a goal this year.

What sorts of goals do you have in mind for this year? Are you being specific, or are you also being a bit open-ended on results?

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