2024 was amazing, y'all! I did not expect so much to come out of the year. Pretty much everything I had set forward for the year changed and morphed. It became something greater and more fulfilling than I ever dreamed.
2025 is set to be just as amazing, if not even more so. And I have a lot of ideas and aspirations for what I can accomplish now that I've embraced AI so fully.
2015 was The Year I Say No.
2016 was The Year I Give No F*cks.
2017 was The Year I Have Fun.
2018 was The Year I Don't Compete.
2019 was The Year I Improve Myself and My Business
2020 was The Year I Lead A Happy Creative Life
2021 was The Year I Develop My Systems
2022 was The Year I Become Stronger, Faster, More Powerful and Positive
2023 was The Year I Focus on Progress and Cultivate Self-Belief
2024 was the Year I Embrace What Makes Me Unique
2025 will be the Year I Become An AI-Assisted One-Woman Studio
This is it! The day I've been waiting for for over 25 years. Finally, my love of music, TV, and film can be married with my love of books and writing, all because I have access to these amazing AI tools. Yes, I'm going to buck the AI-haters and go all-in on AI. I'm going to use it for everything so that I can finally realize all of my stories in multimedia formats. I've always wanted to be a director and producer. Combine that with storytelling, and I think I can really make something fun, interesting, and exciting. I'm practically buzzing with excitement!
My goal this year is to offload as much as I can to AI and see how far that will get me. Will I be able to produce hours, days, weeks worth of content for my subscribers because of AI? Or will it only give me a marginal boost in productivity? Time will tell, and I will share my journey with everyone. More details below…
Storytelling, Writing, Creating, and Publishing Goals
I will focus on publishing to my YouTube channel. Any new stories in new series are going to be multimedia first. I will be publishing new content to my YouTube channel most weeks of 2025 (with allowance for some downtime). This will include but is not limited to: videos of audiobook chapters, flash fiction, interviews, and more.
To that end, I will release at least 3 titles this year. The Blender's Bargain will be released on YouTube and then hopefully in the fall as an ebook in Kindle Unlimited. There’s the next Kimura Sisters book which I hope will be a part of Pets in Space 10. And I would also like to write and release a Skylar book since I just re-read the whole Amagi Series.
I will release other books as part of the Future Fiction Press. I have three books written for the press all ready to go. My first book I released for the press is a non-fiction on AI Basics. You can find it here.
I will learn all about these awesome AI tools I want to use. Midjourney, Ideogram, RunwayML, Kling, Suno, etc are just some of the tools I'll be learning about this year as I venture into becoming my own studio. They are so fun! I can't wait to learn more!
Business Goals
I will build up my Patreon! Yes, I have a Patreon now and that's where I'm going to put all of my AI-related content going forward. If you want to see what I make, you'll have to find it there. Yes, video will also be on YouTube, but once I manage to monetize my channel, the Patreon will be the only place to find my content ad-free. Patreon will also be the place to find Behind the Scenes stuff about how I'm making my content and anything else I want to talk about related to AI. This blog will still be active, but I'll mainly keep it to announcements and information about where to find my work.
I will keep up with everything we have planned for the Future Fiction Academy and Future Fiction Press. We are making great progress with the FFA again! And the Future Fiction Press is going to take off this year. We also have apps that we're working on including Plot Drive and Rexy 2.0. I'm excited about them all!
I will keep at the Brave New Bookshelf podcast. If you didn't know, I have a podcast with my good friend, Danica Favorite, in which we talk about AI and publishing. We will continue to post episodes throughout the year, and my goal is to publish at least 30 episodes this year.
I will keep up with my social media and Amazon ads. I'm planning on doing a combination of organic posting and paid ads across social media and Amazon for both my books and my YouTube channel.
I will figure out how to automate more tasks with AI. I have access to a bunch of author automations thanks to Chelle Honiker, and I need to figure out which ones will help save me time.
I will apply to be a presenter at AuthorNation. I have an idea of what I could speak on, but I'm nervous about putting myself that far “out there” and getting up in front of people to talk about AI. I just need to bite the bullet and do it.
Personal Goals
I will continue to stay gluten free and possibly more. I've been struggling with chronic pain for most of the past few years. Things definitely got better once I went gluten free, so I'm going to be cutting other inflammatory foods starting in January including alcohol and high doses of sugar. A little sugar is fine, especially if it's fruit or I can keep it below 20g per day. I will be doing Dry January and seeing if I can keep drinking to weekends after that.
I will continue to knit and watch TV in my down time. This has become something I love doing and so I need to keep it up. I'm careful not to binge-watch but I do love to be inspired by TV and movies, so I want to keep this up.
I will continue learning Japanese, Italian, and French. I'm considering upgrading to Duolingo Max. They're running a sale right now.
Fitness Goals
I will bike and walk 1000 miles combined. I plan to walk a lot next year now that my plantar fasciitis is better. I figure that between biking and walking I can hit 1000 miles since I came very close in 2024 with 915 miles combined.
I will try to add more upper body strength. If I could just do a few upper body strength classes per month, that would be better than nothing.
And that’s it!
This year, my goals are realistic, I think. And they all focus on me and what I want out of life. I'm excited to get started!
Want to share your 2025 goals with me?
Comment and let me know what you’ll be up to in the new year!
