I did fully accomplish my 2024 goal of finishing off my old side collections that had mostly been started several years ago, some even near the time i started collecting again as an adult. They were all over the place and took a decent chunk of my time for collecting. A year ago when i set the goal to finish them i had an idea to abandon new side collections and concentrate on my slime army. However i did enjoy them and even though they were time consuming i enjoyed every mail day of getting new cards for them during last year, and it no longer felt like an enjoyable idea to abandon all the side collections. But i did want them to be easier to manage. So here i am starting some new side collections and i’m glad i’m so excited about them, i’m in no rush with them and i’m intending to slowly accomplish them during the next few years. That also means that i don’t have any clear goals for the next year, slime army is naturally my main collection i want to add to but the adding pace is very much not in my hands so it’s quite impossible to form any reachable goals for it. I do have my top 5 most wanted cards and i hope for the next five years i would be able to pick up one card per year from it, but again not very reachable goal.
My other goal for 2024 was not that succesful. I was hoping to have the nursery rhymes book fully going but this year was rough, like really rough, so i didn’t have the mindset or energy to concentrate on it as much as i would have liked. I do have more rhymes and i have a message ready that i’m intending to send for the different publishers but i’m still uncertain about some rhymes and i would like to refine them before i’m in touch with potential publishers. But this is my one true goal for the next year, if i really want to get it done while my kids are still small it has to take bigger leaps. I’ve already reserved some days off from work for this project so full of energy or not, i have to get things done.
This was the most unsuccesful of my goals. I didn’t gain any weight but i didn’t lose any either, nor did i manage to go to gym again. Like said, last year was rough so i had zero actual possibilities going to gym and i’m not sure if next year is very promising about that either. But i’m quite comfortable with the weight i’m currently at and i’m sure the time will come where i have more time and energy to return to my gym routines so i’m not too stressed about it atm, just trying to maintain the current situation now.