Goals For 2026
Written By: Zachary Kai » Published: | Updated:
Every year, on the last day, I write goals for the coming one. Nothing like such a significant beginning to usher in positive change! So, here they are.
Over ambitious? Overlong? Perhaps. But what is life without something to strive for? If I have to pick an intention for the year ahead, let it be this: the great finishing.
Table Of Contents
Goals
Creative
- Apply for the Emerging Writers Festival artist call-out.
- Continue to build out my private digital garden in Obsidian. Know thyself!
- Submit a post for each month’s IndieWeb Carnival and IndieWeb Book Club.
- Submit work to the Bold Magazine.
- Write a piece of fanfiction.
- Write a poem.
- Write more regularly on this site.
Entertainment
- Attend a few interesting online events.
- Discover more musical artists and hopefully expand my comfort zone.
- Watch an enjoyable film (I haven’t done so in a long time!)
Professional
- Clean up my CV and make it more coherent.
- Do a few freelance projects to bolster my skills.
Publishing
- Finish offering all my wares on Metalabel.
- Finish republishing The Mara Files.
- Publish the following zines: ten issues of Overwrought Observations, Back To How To Belong In Myself, The Way I Always Feel At Home, No Need To Be Original, three issues of Esoteric Uses, Why I Don’t Talk About The Weather, and ironically, The Great Finishing.
- Set up my Ko-Fi store with all my books and zines.
Relationships
- Ask a few people if they’d be interested in a virtual UnOfficeHours call.
- Maintain consistency! Reply within a reasonable timeframe, and don’t procrastinate.
- Their schedule permitting, call my loved ones on a regular basis.
Self-Care
- Ask for accommodations! Keep my needs and limitations in mind! Be gentle with myself.
- Continue improving my flexibility and strength.
- Journal each day, even if only for five minutes.
Sites
- Add dark mode for Lunaseeker and Road Less Read.
- Compile a list of blogging challenges and prompts.
- Compile and post all my books read lists on Road Less Read.
- Create a directory of folks who offer wares on their sites: an IndieWeb Mercantile.
- Finish compiling and publish my photo portfolio.
- Finish updating the old posts on Road Less Read.
- Launch my planned literary e-zine.
- Link everything mentioned/relevant on this site.
- Organize a better system for automating my random/search/sitemap page updates.
- Turning my jots page into a functioning microblog.
Volunteering
- Continue learning how to contribute to Wikipedia.
- Continue reviewing books for Netgalley.
- Contribute to Hardcover and Open Library.
- Do some IndieWeb Wiki gardening.
- Hopefully host an online event for HTML Day.
- Host at least one more iteration of Pixel & Prose.
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