Just had a Dr. appointment this week that gives me some hope that a minor surgery will enable me to get back to a good activity routine. That hope has been motivating in its own right, calorie discipline has been extra hard when feeling mechanically defeated.

It's a little tough, now in a bear market where there's no buzz about Bitcoin, to be motivated to continually work and improve.

So my New Years resolution this year is to work on promoting/marketing/improving my book Bitcoin Hands On at least 3 times a week, in some capacity.

boring resolution: Eat healthier and exercise more

• measurable outcomes: lose 15 lbs, no gout attacks

job resolution: Retool my academic career to topics more of current interest to me

• measurable outcomes: write at least one other paper about bitcoin OR Christian economic thought (another interest of mine)

fun resolution: Finish my 10 simultaneous runs of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. I wanted to make a resolution about guitar, but I think my health takes precedence so I don't want to overburden myself with too many goals.

Thank you for this space. My goals for this new year are quite clear.

• Exercise more and master bodyweight exercises.
• Read more.
• Learn more about Bitcoin and advance on my path to becoming a stacker.
• Do more fun activities with my daughter.
• Do more activities with my wife.
• Bring knowledge about Bitcoin to more people.

Inspired by @plebpoet, i will try to write/share a piece of short fiction to ~the_stacker_muse once per month.

I resolve to have more resolve about being more consistent in working out.

• travel to 5 new countries.
• take a domestic solo trip.
• become the healthiest and happiest version of myself in mind, body, and soul.
• shoot 70M in Archery.
• get a literary agent and a book deal by the end of 2026.

AMAZING!

I meant to make a stand-alone list/post but alas, a comment here works well.

What I have that's relevant to H&F is:

• Breathe deeply including my breath medication practice (target: daily, but it's ok if just ~3x a week). + reviving my daily, nighttime routine of sticking my head out the window and drawing a few deep, crisp breaths before retiring to bed (#863896)
• "Sac money for health, always." i.e., when there's a marginal trade-off of money<-> health (high-quality meat, yoga practice/adventure or gym etc), just. pay. up. If I'm not paying for health now, I'm paying with illness later.
• Guard your mind: this is definitely a mental obesity thing (#1383936) -> remove shit that doesn't belong, cut off people when they're introducing things that don't need to be there (=my mind), no screens at the table or in social gatherings.

@remindme in 1 year

• I resolve to walk and run 10k miles
• I resolve to cut sweets or sugar by 50%
• I resolve to do Yoga 2 hours every week
• I resolve to cut my caffeine by 50%
• I resolve to cut my screen time by 50%
• I resolve to rink more water than excuses.
• I resolve to sleep before midnight more often than not.
• I resolve to protect my mornings from chaos and my nights from noise.
• I resolve to read at least 12 real books.
• I resolve to eat food that had a life, not a barcode.
• I resolve to move my body even on days my mind tries to negotiate.
• I resolve to choose consistency over motivation.
• I resolve to build one small habit that future-me will be grateful for.
• I resolve to waste less time, less money, and less energy on things that don’t compound.
• I resolve to become calmer, stronger, clearer day by day
• I resolve to become better me than wanting a better year

2026, let's go.

More "ME" time, go outside, touch the grass, smell the coffee, watch a sunrise/sunset.... long bike rides... and yeah eat less :-)

• Study and learn more
• Lose more weight
• Start practicing a fight
• Increase the amount of sats exchange from my fiat earnings
• Convince a local merchant accept bitcoin

I'll try to find the will to find the time to exercise at least 30/45 minutes at least 3 times per week (like running or some simple training at home).

With little kids and work being ever so demanding, if I make it, I'll feel like the master of the inner fabric of spacetime.

Ah, I'll also try to finish a children's book I ought to have finished one year ago, and finally learn python by trying to implement some streamlit dashboards to feed my idiosincratyc needs to collect and look at data.

More realistically, if I manage not gaining about 20kg because of stress eating, forget how to read/write, and sell my soul and personal data to Google for Gemini to show me nicely formatted plots without any real connection to the data themselves, I'll call that a win.

I had the thought of "going to sleep earlier at night" back on new year's day 2025, as I have a very bad habit of sleeping late but waking up early, resulting in oftentimes lack of sleep. In the end, the thought only remained a thought, and I continued my bad habit throughout 2025.

I thought I should make it an official new year's resolution this year, since lack of sleep is probably one of the most unhealthy thing I can do to my body. Going to set a soft bed time of 10:30pm, with a hard cutoff at 11:30pm. There should be consequences if the hard cutoff is broken. I was thinking 200 push ups as punishment the next day if I go to sleep past the hard cutoff. Maybe I should also record the number of times I went to bed past the hard cutoff for you guys to shame me at the end of year.

Not really a resolution, but I also want to set a goal for running, which is more of a continuation of what I've been doing back in 2025. I reached a bit over 1400km at the end of November 2025, but completely fumbled December. Ended up not going for any runs in December because of my lower back / hip problem earlier in the month and catching a bad flu from my son later in the month. I want to set a goal to run at least 100km each month in 2026. For a little extra, I want to try to reach 1000 miles (1600km) by the end of 2026.

Will report back on how I did at the end of year. Let's fucking go!

1. Lower my phone time
2. Sell more LN channels
3. More home improvement projects
4. Keep up my studies with Spanish and programming
5. Finally get to 10% body fat
6. Do more SN marketing
7. Make an effort to contact loved ones and friends at least once a week.
8. Resolve my 2025 unmet goals
9. Play more video games

This year my focus is on expanding my skill set by reading one book each month outside my usual field. The idea is to challenge my thinking and broaden perspective rather than just reinforce what I already know. I also plan to check in quarterly to evaluate progress because accountability over time tends to turn intentions into actual results...