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Make Resolutions Stick: My 2025 Reading Challenge

New year, new resolution. Aaah, if only it were that simple.

I’m sure many of you have tried creating new year resolutions consisting of both physical, intellectual, lifestyle, or even spiritual targets. But do most of you actually check the completion at the end of the year?

Me? Same pathetic situations. Resolutions come and go without checking whatsoever. One resolution done in January, perhaps I put it on a blog, then that’s it.

Perhaps my own resolutions never came to reality because they were too general without specific steps to achieve them. So, let me try to do that this year by starting moderately but with specific and measurable actions.

Name of resolution: to read 1 book each month

Steps: buy/borrow a book for each month and complete reading it by the end of that month.

Follow-ups: post the progress (or its failure) monthly on this blog.

Let’s see what happens. Hopefully I can complete this one by December 2025.

Christmas is coming soon

Christmas is around the corner. I’m still sitting at the office on this Friday but my mind has wandered off to the festivities and to the travel plans afterwards.

However, after the impulsive setting up of a new blog last night, I was surprised to find that WordPress has integrated AI as well in generating featured images. Yes, I remember that finding images in the past involved extensive googling and checking out the options and the sharing policy of each creator. It was such a stressful extra burden that partly prompted my hiatus because it took such many steps just to release a post and the time should’ve been devoted to writing instead.

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