2025 Goals + Intentions

Jan 1, 2025

Last year, I pulled together a pretty comprehensive set of goals, intentions, and targets for the year. I hit a few of them, but it turns out, 2024 was a year for exploration. My entire premise of what was important changed several times throughout the year, and my goals changed in tandem.

However, that doesn't mean it was a bad year… it was just different than I expected.

A few things I'm proud of from this year:

  • Making my first online money (you can just sell stuff on the internet!)

  • Completing 75 Hard

  • 4.5 months of no alcohol + quitting nicotine

  • Strapped on a snowboard for the first time and ended the season shredding double blacks

  • Starting this website and staying relatively consistent with it!

  • A "spiritual" breakthrough, increased self-awareness, or whatever you want to call it… Courtesy of puzzle pieces collected through three years of exploration and reflection and weekend retreat that managed to click the pieces together

Only two of those six bullets were planned.

This year, I'm simplifying things a bit. I work better with an intense focus — in fact, that may be the only way I can actually get things done. So, this year, I'm setting two distinct goals:

  • Main Goal: $250K revenue

  • Sub Goal: Run a sub-4 hour marathon

On my birthday 5 months ago, I'd never run more than 5 miles, and I hated running with all my life. In 7 weeks, I'm running my first marathon, and I'm absolutely AMPED about it.

I just decided to do that, and suddenly 1. I started seeing crazy progress and 2. I started enjoying it.

You can just do things. Crazy, right?

Which brings me to my sole intention for the year… I'm just gonna do things. Less thinking. Less planning. Just do something and see what happens

Pull an all-nighter building something? Sure, why not.

Set up a little stand somewhere on SoCo one weekend to sell the rest of my hats? Maybe I should buy some pins and let people customize them

Launch micro-products, sign different types of clients, hire someone, run my first ads, etc.

If we are fuly concentrated on the matter-in-hand, facinated with it for its own sake, having no goals or purposes in mind, then it is easier to be fully spontaneous, fully functioning, letting our capacities flow forth easily from within, of themsleves, without effort, without consious volition or control, in an instinct-like automatic, thoughtless way.

The Further Reaches of Human Nature, Abraham H. Maslow

I think Maslow's got it right. All of the best decisions I’ve made in life were ones I made spontaneously — following my intuition without much plan or thought. I'm excited to embrace some spontaneity this year.

It's going to be a good one — I can feel it.

Cheers to 2025, y'all 🎉

— Harrison

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