what is your main goal for yourself for next year?

log off and touch grass challenge (impossible)

For real... I can usually only keep it at a week or two lol

As a visibly trans person: survive, and help as many other people survive as I can.

I'm not sure what you are trying to tell us when you call yourself a visibly trans person. What you are inside your mind is rarely what is visible on the outside.
So, helping trans people, absolutely, but how about you, who is looking out for you?
- I am short with a somewhat femme figure, sparse but obvious facial hair, a flat chest, and a voice that sounds somewhere between a very gay man, a 13 year old boy, and an older woman. I am very visibly crossing many lines that people look for when trying to figure out how to address someone. Meaning, in a time when attacks on trans people and our rights are very quickly ramping up, I am in more danger of harassment and assault than I have been in the last few years.
  As far as who is looking out for me: I am, that is part of my goal, but I also have a husband and a few friends who I can ask for help. However, I am in a slightly better position in life than most trans people in this country, since I live in a blue state that is (probably) unlikely to strip me of my rights. Hence my focus on helping others. There will probably be a lot of people coming here for medical treatment, and I want to make sure I help in any way I can.

I'm gonna stop being passive and pleasant and start speaking my mind.

You can speak your mind and still be kind and considerate. You tend to catch more flies with honey and after a while nobody resents a hard truth in the mix.
On the other hand, being less considerate about truth means that people will ignore you or worse actively fight you just to spite you.
You definitely don't have to be passive, but you don't have to be a dick about your truth.
Note that I'm not saying that you're planning to be a dick, just that I've been where you are and don't wish that on anyone.

Shoot an arrow vertically into the air and then catch it with my teeth

To get my book published and travel more. I want to see Hawaii, Fremont Street, Big Ben, Akihabara, and a tropical ocean.

That's a great list of places to go
I published using the Kindle store. It's not for everyone, but it scratched my itch. I framed my first cheque as a "published author" .. I didn't make any money, but that's not why I published.
You don't need anyone's approval, you don't need to pay anyone you don't want to and you can do it from anywhere with an internet connection.

get in shape. keep my finances in the black. not do drugs lol

I'm going to try to stop smoking weed. Wish me luck 🤞

A tip that didnt help me much, but it will next year:
I survived X years without (insert addiction here). I can do that again.
Out of curiosity (and if you're willing), how come? Been wondering if I should do similar, would enjoy another perspective.
- I smoke too much. It's difficult for me to use in moderation. I've got shit to do and it's hard to find the motivation when I'm always high.

Staying alive, having fun, sharing with friends.

Stay hydrated.

Get in shape and write half* my thesis

I just finished my thesis last semester, it's a huge milestone. Good luck on yours!
- Congrats!!! :) that’s amazing

More psychedelics

I have some health issues so my goal rn is to minimize the amount of pain im in.

Good luck, comrade!

End the workaholic streak and get back to my hobbies, maybe even make new friends via hobbies

I have a few, but the general theme of 2025 for me is "cultivation." Ignoring personal life milestones as goals, my biggest areas of work will be to improve my fitness and start a training regimen (I know, typical lol), going vegan once and for all, accelerating my language learning journey, and finishing the 30 or so works left on my "essential Leftist theory" personal reading list I set out for myself, including Capital Volumes 1-3. I want to go into 2026 a more well-rounded individual that is more knowledgeable and broadly skilled.

I have three goals:

Lose weight
Do at least three game jams
Stay employed

Stretch goals

Move into a nice rental house
Get a new, better paying job
Get laid
Ship a game
Survive the shitstorm that is 2025

This is the first time I've ever felt the coming year isn't going to be great. In fact, I'd rather stay in this one if I could.

get a 5090

Chill bro

Die.

You good my dude?
- I second that question, hopefully they aren’t serious
Beat me to it

👶

Improve on my art and grow more as an artist.

The Odin Project

Less YouTube

Just survive, I'm moving late 2026 which will hopefully be a new beginning for me, until then I just gotta not die

Stop using reddit. bunch of nazis.

Actually starting to learn music production. I've had this passion for so long yet laziness has prevented me from developing it.

I need to get out of my depression. I didn’t realize I was depressed until I had a dream, just now, where I ran into an old college classmate. She was telling me how depressed she was and I was just thinking “but your life is like mine”.

I just self-administered the IHQ-9 and it indicates me as having “severe depression”. So I need to get that figured out.

In the past I’ve taken medication for it, but I can’t seem to find any arrangement that allows me to take the medication continually. This really worries me. My life is a total failure including financially.

A family member has been helping me financially but it’s ruining their finances to do so.

Been trying to break in this career for too long. If it doesn’t work out by EOY 2025, do something else

To get a better job than the one I have now. But the effort required to study for interviews is rather daunting...

Take it one step at a time. Practice makes perfect and it's likely that you'll fail many times before you succeed. Keep ar it. You can do this!
- Thank you for the encouragement!

Survive in as close to my current situation as possible

To self-study for the FE exam. It's what freshly-graduated engineering students have to take to officially be "in-training" as an engineer.

Welp, I do not have a bachelors degree in engineering, but I'm coming up on 3 years of working in the field as a designer and next year I can also take the exam. So, I'm going to spend the next year teaching myself everything I'll need to know.

probably to do more action, volunteer more(at homeless shelters, tree planting) and go to more protests