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100 things you can do on your personal website

Below, I list many things you can do on your personal website. This post is not meant to be a checklist so much as a source for inspiration. Perhaps one of the ideas below will take you down a delightful rabbit hole that leads you to new learnings. Perhaps an idea will bring you joy. Perhaps some ideas aren’t right for your site, but that still get you thinking.


Some of these are things you can do on Dreamwidth or another platform where you have a site.  Others require your own website and/or a considerable amount of coding skill.  If you are among the people with a goal of learning to code or making your own website, this is a good resource for inspiration.
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Why February Is the Best Month for Resolutions

February brings a reprieve from the pressures that come with the start of the year. The steady stream of gym advertisements eases up. Dry January ends, and bars get more of their customers back. For those of us already thinking about abandoning our New Year’s resolutions, the arrival of February may seem like tacit permission to give up.

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25 Life Goal Ideas for 2025: Unconventional, Fun, and Totally Doable (Maybe)

So, it’s time to set some life goals for 2025, right? You know the drill — new year, new you, but this time, we’re shaking things up. No more clichés about “losing 10 pounds” or “saving the world” — we’re diving into the deep end of creativity, fun, and a little bit of madness.

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Plan to thrive in 2025! Create your ’20 for 2025′ list.

I first heard about this idea on one of my favorite podcasts. I’ve adopted it and encouraged my family and the Happy Healthy Caregiver community to join the FUN. I even created a fresh new FUNsheet for you to use!

Resolutions and goals can be heavy, but this activity is about your definition of FUN.



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As we step into 2025, many of us are reflecting on how we want to live, grow, and thrive in the coming year. Choosing a word of the year is a powerful alternative to a New Year's Resolution. Unlike a resolution, your word serves as a steady reminder of your values, aspirations, and priorities—a guiding light for the months ahead.
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Setting successful goals for yourself requires asking the right questions. Too often, we rush to create our list of goals without investing any time at all into thinking about where those answers should come from. I know this because I’ve been there and spent much of my life setting goals the wrong way, without any base or foundation.

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Here are 10 ideas for sustainable living.  Have you dropped a goal because it's not working out for you?  Consider replacing it with a new one.
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Now is a good time to plan ahead for gardening. Order seeds and plants for the spring season. It doesn't matter whether you grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, or something else -- it's all good.

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Explore some projects on Instructables that you might choose to try this year. Topics include computers, cooking, sewing, woodworking, and other crafts. See also the Signup Post: Arts and Crafts Challenges in 2025.

A Walking Audit

Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 12:05 am
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Walking Audit or "Neighborhood Walk"

A Walking Audit is a technical term that could be more easily described as a Neighborhood Walk. A Walking Audit is the opportunity to gather a group of people and experience a community or neighborhood together. This simple activity is an opportunity to look and talk about our neighborhoods through a shared experience. A walking audit requires very little initial effort and is the next smallest step each of us can undertake in our community.

* How to Host a Neighborhood Walk
* Some Questions to Start the Conversation

This is a good project for anyone with goals like "walk (distance or frequency)," "spend X hours outdoors," "improve community," or "participate in local activism."
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We're here to encourage you to dream boldly by being detailed about what you actually want. Of course, we have the perfect list of deep questions and journal prompts so you can tap into the life you want to live.
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This list of 7 questions invites you to consider your beliefs and how to manifest them in the coming year. While you can use these to choose resolutions or other goals, this list is more angled toward folks who prefer the "intention" or "theme" approaches. They lend themselves well to discussion and contemplation, not quick answers or trackable goals.

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Among the popular materials for journaling are embellishments like stickers and tape. Here are some options to explore.

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Having offered journals and planners to buy or to print at home, it seems useful to cover related supplies. This post covers pens, markers, pencils, inks, and a few extras. Understand that the physical experience of writing is a big appeal with recordkeeping on paper, so pay attention to the handfeel of what you use. Also, many people in this activity are highly visual, with an interest in color-coding and/or using a set of symbols to store information. For this reason, they often want multiple colors. Another reason for variety is when you do different things in your journal -- writing, drawing, filling in areas of color, etc. A good handwriting pen may not excel at coloring in spaces and vice versa, so you might need different ones for each task.

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Someone mentioned preferring bound books, so here are some current options.

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Now that we've reached January 1, there are enough posts about resolutions for 2025 to make a separate list of the new ones. You can also find some in 2025 New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals. These are just random lists of whatever resolutions stamped with 2025. And remember, you don't have to set your goals all at once -- you can throw in new ones if you see anything that looks cool on someone else's list, which is a key reason for sharing our lists.

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Year End Questions

Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 09:53 pm
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I found this list of fannish year end questions via [personal profile] petra and [personal profile] musesfool.

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Now is the time folks are making their New Year's resolutions or other goals for 2025. People vary in how they like to pursue their goals and what helps them keep on track. Some want others to provide accountability. Others just want moral support and the company of friends doing similar things. Some like having a place to track their progress online, share it with friends, and watch what others are doing. This post provides a place where you can seek any of these. It's okay if you need a certain amount of pressure for success.

Don't want accountability at all, just opportunities? That's okay too; you can just skip this post and look for other resources that suit your needs, like the one about alternatives.

Read on for some ideas...

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Most people who like New Year's resolutions or other year-beginning goals will be setting them on December 31 or January 1. This post provides a place to share yours. If you have a single goal or a small cluster that fit in a paragraph or few, you can put them in a comment below this post. Longer lists or discussions should go on your own blog, with a link to that post and maybe a summary of your approach in a comment below. Scroll down for resources on goals.

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These are some ideas for New Year's resolutions and other goals for families. Some are for couples, others for families with children, for eclectic families, and so on. They tend toward activities meant to be done together.

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