My Primary Focus for 2025
- Exercise
- Diligent skincare routine
- Reduce expenditures

Actionable Tasks:

Exercise — Clock 15-20 minutes of workout in the morning before work.

Diligent — skincare routine: Follow the five to ten steps Korean skincare routine while paying more attention to sheet and clay masks.

Reduce expenditures — $0 budget for Postcrossing expenses, only allowed to buy one ukulele for the year and set reduction targets for certain categories as outlined below.

• Art – Reduce by 60% – Budget: $250
• Wants – Reduce by 50% – Budget: $1750
• Food – Reduce by 40% – Budget: $2400
• Occasions – Reduce by 30% – Budget: $$2300
• Groceries – Reduce by 10% – Budget: $3500
• Needs – Reduce by 10% – Budget: $1800

Energy Creators — Activities that I'll be doing more of in 2025.
- Ukulele
- Reading
- Massages
- Sketching
- Steamboats
- Flea markets
- Durian sessions
- Cook new recipes
- Meet family/friends
- Exchange bookish emails
- Family outings planned with the kids' interests in mind.

Energy Drainers — Activities that I'll be doing less of in 2025.
- Attend daunting gatherings.
- Accompanying others on errands unnecessarily.

Monthly Tasks
- Clean-up Gmail
- Backup all media
- Identify small wins
- Dispose expired food
- Scan and backup journal entries
- Download children’s school photos
- Update Annual Living Expenses Excel document
- Ensure completeness of Life Log Excel document
- Review the progress for expenses with reduced budgets

Personal Projects
- Declutter at home
- Create a writing blog
- Host a trivia night for family and friends
- Finally bake that Biscoff cheesecake again
- Document the memories that I thought of (recurring)
- Produce annual videos of my children's memories (photos, videos, audio, art works etc.)
- Conduct annual video interviews for my children (ask the same questions every year)

December 2025 Tasks
- 2025 Monthly Highlights
- 2025 Personal Annual Review
- 2026 Objectives