Just keep moving — 2025
The new year is here. The last couple of years have been challenging for many of us. With Covid and failed relations, losing dear ones, financial constraints and many more.
I opened YouTube today as usual and landed on a video of one of my favourite creators — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goJsTMvO55A
These days it has been tough for me to focus on one particular video due to so many things I am juggling. But I still watched this video till the end. The reason is, that it shows the story of a young boy who did NOT give up when his life went haywire. The video shows his journey, starting from nothing and continuing to become everything.
Youtube or the Internet in general, is a place of endless motivation. But this story was different because it felt achievable, easy, and simple. The creator is no different from me or you.
Just keep moving! — this is the thing that struck me the most. The journey of small habits consistency and manifestation.
So as I begin this journey of another long year of 365 days, 8784 hours or 31,622,400 seconds I have just one goal in mind — To keep moving.
The next list of things is not to show off but a promise to myself towards what I want to achieve in the next 1 year. Please do take it in that spirit.
- Work on my fitness goals. I have been hitting the gym for the last 2 months and I want to keep continuing that. By the end of the year, I will post my before and after pic on social media to motivate others.
- Move up in my career. I have been working with a startup for 3 years now and even though it is a great team to work with, I am looking out for newer challenges. I need to switch to a bigger role.
- Buy a bike. I want to start travelling and making vlogs to document my journey. The reason behind this is so that my children know that their dad lived his life to the fullest.
- I am not into drinking much. But I do have an occasional beer once every 3–4 months. I want to quit that to align with my fitness goals.
- I want to become better at writing. I have 958 followers on Medium and I want to increase that by 500 each month. I know it is a big task. But I want to become regular at it.
- I want to complete my house. My father and grandfather started building our house and I want to complete it this year.
- I want to start making youtube shorts. Mostly tech stuff but I want to become consistent at it. I want to learn to edit videos and make it cool like others do.
- I want to start working on my vocals. My dad was a great singer. Sadly he is not with us anymore. But I want to continue that legacy.
- I want to buy a flat in Kochi. I was married for 3 years before my ex-wife decided to leave my and take all my savings away during divorce. I have been rebuilding myself through out the last year and I want to drive that growth higher.
- I want to start a podcast and speak about tech mostly. I am not sure about what I will speak about yet. But I want to get into that habit.
- Read a lot of books. I have been losing concentration due to the constant social media access. I want to put more time into reading books or Medium in general.
- Find a partner in life. The divorce has been painful and it has stopped my life in many ways. I want to fall in love again and find someone with whom I can grow old. Have wonderful kids and see them grow up with smile on their faces.
I know that it is a lot but just as that video suggested — small steps till we make it. And with this goes my first blog of the year.
Happy New Year! to everyone and I hope 2025 will be different for all of us and we will be able to achieve all our goals.
