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A new year has sprung.  Yours portly is freshly forty.  GEOTUS Donaldus Magnus is just sixteen days away from resuming the throne.  What better time, then, to lay out some goals for 2025?

It might be helpful to look back first at my goals from 2024, found in “2024 Goals” at my SubscribeStar page.

I did not accomplish a number of items I laid out in that post.  Here are a few goals I did not achieve in 2024:

• Starting The Portly Podcast
• Finishing Offensive Poems: With Pictures
• Playing more gigs (well, I did have a few good ones, so I suppose I technically achieved this goal, but I was hoping for substantially more paying gigs, not just a couple of more coffee shop shows)
• Writing short stories
• Losing weight (I think I gained weight overall)

I did, however, accomplish some of my goals:

• Composing more music (ten albums/EPs in total)
• Traveling more in general
• Continuing to write daily
• Expanding my YouTube channel

The “Did Not Accomplish” is bigger than the “Did Accomplish” column, but it’s important to consider the quality of my accomplishments.  As noted, I released ten albums/EPs of material in 2024, consisting ninety (90) new pieces.  Granted, some of those were under a minute, some even under ten seconds.  As the year wore on, however, I wrote longer-form material.

Also, my YouTube channel at the start of 2024 was sitting at around fifty (50) subscribers; it’s now (at the time of writing) at 191 subs.  I have 268 videos at the time of writing (and probably closer to 276 by the time this post publishes).  I still have a long way to go to reach monetization, but I’m slowly groping my way towards developing another tiny income stream.

So, what are my goals for 2025?  And which ones will I accomplish—and where will I fail?

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