A New Year and a Reignited Focus

1/25/26

We are now a good bit into 2026, aka the 21st year of my life and another one that I have fortunately survived into. This is it for my childhood- after I turn 21, there are absolutely no restrictions on what I can do in this country… I will officially be an adult. This will ideally be a year of partying and celebration of that fact- aka, I’m getting wasted at least a few times this year (legally now).

But I also foresee a lot of other things in the cards this year- I have again set some pretty lofty goals, but I do expect to be able to hit them. Firstly, the biggest non-negotiable is that I must finish LCU Survivor. I have five chapters left, which will likely be about 800 - 1000 pages left to write. The total amount of words left will probably be somewhere under 500,000- which means that in order to hit this goal, I’ve set a quota for myself. I have to write 10,000 words a week… which should roughly be about 8-10 hours of writing. Strenuous, yes- but it’s now been 3 years since I undertook this project… it’s about time I finish and move onto something else.

My next major goal is to just continue my progress with art. I want to again draw around 100 pictures this year- but I’m also going to try and one-up myself by going for more difficult poses and more complex designs. I don’t want every picture of mine to just be a man glancing to the left or the right- please call me out on this if I trend back in that direction.

Other goals are pretty usual- continue my good grades in college, and possibly graduate this year. Continue working out (Starting the year off at 6/7 days a week, that’ll likely go down) and I want to continue to build an active and healthy body.

From now on I am going to start tracking my goals on this website to keep myself accountable- and also give a reason to do a weekly updates here. Here’s the first 4 weeks:

Week 1 (Dec 29 - Jan 4): 6/5 Days at the Gym, 10,142/10,000 Words Written, 0/2 Drawings

Week 2 (Jan 5 - Jan 11): 6/5 Days at the Gym, 10,413/10,000 Words Written, 2/2 Drawings

Week 3 (Jan 12 - Jan 18): 6/5 Days at the Gym, 6,951/10,000 Words Written, 2/2 Drawings

Week 4 (Jan 19 - Jan 25): 5.5/5 Days at the Gym, 15,613/10,000 Words Written, 2/2 Drawings