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Declaring Your Goals Can Help You Achieve Them in 2025
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Declaring Your Goals Can Help You Achieve Them in 2025

Health, Wealth, and Love: My New Year’s Resolutions and Your Sunday Morning Thought Piece

Last year I did one of those Landmark Forum personal development courses, which, by the way, I recommend.

One of the takeaways was that one should publicly declare one’s goals and aspirations. In doing so, several things happen.

You make yourself more accountable. Knowing that others now know your goals pushes you to take stronger action to achieve them. You thus become more committed to them. The act of public statement also solidifies goals both in your mind and in the public perception, thereby moving them beyond an abstract idea to something more concrete. The act of articulating goals also clarifies what it is you are actually looking for and may even give you new insights.

Support networks can also emerge: friends, family, peers, contacts are more likely to help in some way, if they know what you are trying to achieve. They might introduce you to helpful people. Those who have been down similar paths might be able to offer advice, assistance or collaboration.

You will have something to keep referring back to, better enabling you to track progress, which will further reinforce the whole thing.

Finally, making such a declaration makes you vulnerable, but that is actually empowering and liberating. It reduces internal conflict; while others might empathise and want to help you for your honesty.

With all this in mind, I thought I would share my New Year resolutions with you. I hope you find some interest, amusement or even motivation in them.

Some are quite personal, but for reasons stated above, I’ve decided to post them anyway. I hope it is not TMI.

I always tend to overdo it with my resolutions - reach for the sky and then, even if you fall short, you still end up pretty high.

So here they are:

Health, Body & Mind

  1. Stay fit and strong. Weights two or three times a week. Something aerobic two or three times a week. Plenty of stretching. Daily deadhangs, pelvic floors, breathing and neck exercises.

  2. Keep drinking less.

  3. Fast once a week.

  4. Eat more protein.

  5. Get good at lucid dreaming. (Lucid dreams are when you are aware you are in a dream, while you dream - dreaming is something I have got very interested in of late).

  6. Read at least 15 books. I read a fair bit, but most of it is online. I hardly seem to read actual books any more - my phone always takes priority. Put this right.

  7. Try and do some mindfulness meditation stuff once per week.

Money

  1. Invest well and grow my net worth - and the net worth of Flying Frisby readers - by at least 20%.

On which note, if you are buying gold to protect yourself in these uncertain times, I recommend The Pure Gold Company. Pricing is competitive, quality of service is high. They deliver to the UK, the US, Canada and Europe or you can store your gold with them. More here.

Work & Career - Laughter, Acclaim, Opportunity

  1. Continue producing consistent, interesting content for this Substack and grow it - both subscribers and revenue - by 25%.

Apropos of which, why not subscribe?

  1. Get better at PR and marketing, significantly grow my online presence - both as comic and commentator - and build a bigger following. ( I have a plan here).

  2. Finish my musical about the Peasants’ Revolt.

  3. Write my Gilbert and Sullivan musical.

  4. Write stage and screen adaptations of Kisses on a Postcard.

  5. Make something significant happen with Kisses on a Postcard. I’ve put that in bold because it is perhaps the most important of all to me. We are talking about something that could be as big as Oliver! or The Sound of Music, if there are any producers reading this.

  6. Try and get some comedy gigs in the US and grow a presence there

  7. Get more gigs and better gigs in the UK, working towards a full-scale tour.

  8. Keep writing the songs, making people laugh and produce another album by year end (I try and produce one a year).

  9. Get my new book, The Secret History of Gold, as good as possible; and market it as well as possible, especially in China and the US. (It’s due out in August).

  10. Practice my uke and singing most days and get better at both.

A lot of asks: I think I might be going against everything I said here on Wednesday.

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Love and Family

  1. Be the best father I can be to Samuel, Eliza, Lola and Ferdie. Set a good example. Love them unreservedly. Help them fulfil their potential. Spend more time doing memorable things with all of them, but especially Eliza and Ferdie, as they lost out a bit this year.

  2. Find a nice place to live and settle down happily with Miss Downing in a lasting, fulfilling relationship.

  3. Be a good son to my mother, and justify the unreserved love she has shown in me.

Not a lot then.

I realise I am asking a lot of both myself and the universe, but the whole point of these resolutions is to be bold.

I’m not going to say I won’t achieve all these goals, as that defeats the purpose (I never manage all of them but I’M NOT GOING TO SAY THAT). If nothing else, at least I’ll have something interesting to write about this time next year.

This isn’t all about me. What about you? What are your goals? What are they? Let’s discuss them in the comments.

I wish you a 2025 packed with happiness, growth, fulfilment, success and—fingers crossed—lucid dreams.

Dominic

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PS A few final bits and pieces:

  1. If you haven’t already, take a look at my buddy Charlie Morris’s monthly gold report, Atlas Pulse. It is, in my view, the best gold newsletter out there, and, best of all, it’s free. Sign up here.

  2. If you missed my New Year piece, it’s a good one. Here it is:

How To Win: Lessons From A Champion

How To Win: Lessons From A Champion

I was at a big family function on Christmas Eve, where I ran into my brother-in-law, who used to be a world champion boxer.

  1. I recorded this interview with Rob Moore the other day, which you might enjoy:

Discussion about this episode

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Jimmy's avatar

For me I realise i have struggled with love, I haven't prioritised it

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

I think few of us do, Jimmy, to our cost!

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Ashley's avatar

To people mentioning polymaths/renaissance man - I highly recommend the book "Range: How generalists triumph in a specialized world" by David Epstein, which has some good ideas as well as being comforting to someone that can sometimes otherwise feel naughty/greedy for not picking 1 thing to be interested in

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

Thanks Ashley!

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CEO Wohlwend's avatar

If you’re looking for more readers in the US, being on my Real Power Family radio show might help. We met at the New Orleans investment conference a few years ago. I have been following your work ever since. It would be interesting to interview you. Eric@clearskytrainer.com

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

Thanks Eric - with pleasure

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Philip Pickett's avatar

Great interview with Rob Moore, a lot to unpack but brilliant. HNY Dominic

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

Many thanks!

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Christopher Elletson's avatar

Hard Times Are Coming: excellent interview. I worry a little on how quantum computing might affect bitcoin but i have listened to Michael Saylor on it and would play bitcoin through Charlie Morriss's BOLD and leave it to him to decide the percentage share in bitcoin.

Afuera!

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

thank you!

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John Bryan's avatar

Glad you didn't single-mindedly pursue a solo goal. The world needs the multi-talented polymaths too.

Good Luck.

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

Haha. Thanks John

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John Durrant's avatar

Looking forward to those UK gigs.

My substack goal is to publish short daily contemplative pieces on health & fitness so that I have enough material for a book by the end of the year. Hitherto I've been a bit sporadic with the long-form stuff and seeing shorter daily posts as an experimental challenge.

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

It’s a really effective way of building up material. I did something similar with my gold book.

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Evola's Sunglasses's avatar

Inspirational.

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

Thank you

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andy's avatar

Renaissance Wo/men are fascinating, compelling. I’ve wondered how many might be in attendance at any given Renaissance Fair.

And have noticed a polymathmatic refrain running thru readings (which is as close as I’ve got to any of these rarified individuals) these jumping jack flash masters of multiple trades & that is the who-how of their bread & butter.

It was a left field revelation, about perhaps the example par excellence, to come across the master forger skills & status of Michelangelo.

That one of his forgeries was scammed to the Vatican - & was found out.

And the Cardinal’s response? He hired Michelangelo.

Birds of a feather … raptor birds. Somebody’s got to fly close air support ‘for’ the chicken coops.

Just did a search to refresh memory, here is a title/subtitle:

“Did Michelangelo Start His Career as an Art Forger?

His ability to create an accurate copy won him recognition.”

All’s well that ends well & especially if the court historians & journos suck up as is their specialist wont.

I did the goals-confession-catechism that most of us are born into, too.

But had to conclude the conclusion that aligns with the proverbial “If you want to make god/s laugh, tell him/them your plans.”

That life amongst the forgers of a feather is more like … poker. And that cards close to vest is best rhyme & reason.

Work. That’s all. Grinding. As it’s described in that poker movie, Rounders. Or as a bond pit trader I once knew called it “chiseling.”

Be here now? Because that’s all there is. Punches & counterpunches.

Here’s a good piece from David Mamet on poker:

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/20/magazine/about-men-the-things-poker-teaches.html

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

If you want to make the gods laugh, tell him your plans. I love that.

Yes, Michelangelo did start out as a forger I did a piece on him once for a an Italian TV show about art forgery there was a big trade in the Renaissance in sculptures that looked like original Roman sculptures

Many forges consider themselves great artists. They often consider themselves better than the artist they are forging.

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