It had to be, the only topic for today – what are my new years resolutions? We did the reflection yesterday, now for the look ahead.

Sadly we start with the serious one, and the first one is no surprise at all. I’ve got to lose some weight. Looking back at the pictures of me over the last year, it’s clear that I’m eating too much. I particularly noticed it when we were doing the Christmas Day stream. I’m not THAT much overweight, but I could certainly lose 1/3 of my bodyweight and I would be still at a healthy weight.

On the plus side, I’ve been doing plenty of exercise with the running and that has worked out well, but I really just need to eat more healthily. More than that I think that I need to eat less, it’s not necessarily that what we have is bad. Of course it’s the worst time to start, we’ve still got tonnes of Christmas chocolate to work through.

So the resolution is ‘to look thin in the Christmas Day 2024 stream’.

The second one is much more about growth and it’s to make this blog! So I’ve already achieved it! It’s going well because I already wrote 27 or so articles so I’ve been able to just put them in here. But this is the first day I’m actually writing in the blog itself. It’s pretty bare bones at the moment.

And the purpose of all this. Well, my twitch stream is the heart of the content creation that I do, but there’s things I want to be better at, and one of those is to improve my storytelling. So to write like this each day helps with that, a bit. It also provides me with a library of material that I can more easily recall when I’m doing live stuff. I also want to be more funny, there’s very few jokes in this, by the end of the year you won’t be able to read this far because you’ll have fallen on the floor in histerics.

But this is also my journal. Its really nice to have a kind of diary of what I’ve done, and this is that. So there we go, I’m not sure this folds nicely into a one liner. I’m not sure I can commit to writing something every day, but I can at least try. I also got 3 months free of webspace for this blog, so we’ll see how we are going at the start of April, I guess. So short version ‘do a blog’.

Those are the two big things, and I think it’s best to keep things short, but there a bunch of minor bits. I’d like to get my 10k under 50 minutes again, but that kind of links to the weight thing, maybe I can do a half marathon, maybe I can get my 5k time towards 20 minutes again, I dunno – a load of running achievement. I’d like to grow the stream – but I’m not really in control of that, all I can do is to try and make better content. And I’d like to meet more people, hopefully there will be a Twitchcon EU and hopefully we can meet up there together.

Happy New Year