After an epic ending to 2024 with the Green Card landing, I was feeling pretty free and looking forward to 2025. When in the UK I was always a big fan of the big Sasco wall planners to plan out the year, always felt it pushed me to arrange things and not let the year just float by. I had found the US version BIG ASS CALENDAR by Jesse Itzler. I had actually knew of Itzler from the epic Living with a Seal book. The methodology of Itzler is
- Plan your year out
- Have a Misogi (One big thing/achievement/goal to define your year, so if look back would say in 2025 it was the the year X)
- Kevin’s Law – Do 1 adventure every 2 months that you would not normally do (on a weekend). This way each year you will have 1 big life event and 6 new adventures.
- Quarterly Habit – Each quarter, create a new habit
I won’t go into detail what mine are for this year but I have embraced that methodology and the BIG ASS CALENDAR. As usual though I will detail some of my targets, aims and ambitions for the year to keep myself honest.
Health & Fitness
Unsurprisingly a lot of my year fits around running and goals as per usual. I really enjoyed strength training with PT in 2024 but my mileage in the year was so bad 750, so I have had to ditch that to focus on running in 2025.
- Body fat % – Reduce by a further 2%
- Achieve Running Goals
- 1000 Miles
- Sub 40 10K
- Sub 19 5K
- Sub 5:15 Mile
- Sub 5 1500m
- PB in the 10 Mile (Sub 1:09)
I have already booked races up to end of May so opportunity will be to hit some of these in the first half the year, I have run more than I have ever run from December – Feb at the moment so it’s a good start to the year
Travel
- 3 New Countries
- 3 new NHL arenas to the see the Isles
- For parents 2025 visit – New York and visit family in Canada
Life Stuff
- Figure out where I want to be come August (lease up), Colorado? Other State or internal CO move?
- Do more other than just running and work
- Time to invest in getting an American smile
Kevin’s Law Ideas
- Climb 2x14ers
- Maroon Bells
- Utah Arches
- Fishing Course Weekend
- Camping
- Yellowstone
Quarterly Habit Ideas
- At least 12 books
- Website work
- Drink more water
I have also got some events to look forward to back in the UK in June – becoming a Godfather for the 4th time to Roen, attending Hurley wedding and a big smoke catch-up with the Uni crew.
It’ll be a big year for me, now I feel the freedom, I have to figure out what to do with it.
I have been open to admit that this Green Card process has shackled me over the last 12-24 months, sometimes I had not even realised it but back to exploring this year for sure.
Hope everybody has an epic year, make it so! Plan, and worth checking out the Jesse Itzler planning videos on YouTube and if nothing else… read Living with a Seal (Jesse I has David Goggins living with him, it is a hilarious read).
