While most release their yearly review sometime in the period over Christmas - New Year's, I figured I would be the weird one and post it the first week of January. I've always been the weird one.
2024 was a great year for me and my family, we spent the entire summer on the West Coast of Canada, flew 11 hours with our 18 month old to Italy to visit Rebecca's extended family, I built 3 different projects to monetization, learned an immense amount about systems architecture, and didn't sacrifice my health at the forefront of all of this.
While the days felt long, the year was short. It felt like things started accelerating around September and here we are, already in 2025!
Stats for 2024
- 16 Books read
- On the road for 3.5 months of the year
- Visited Italy (Rome, Florence, Alessandria, San Salvatore, Naples), Road tripped to BC (Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, Banff),
- 2 projects completed and generating revenue
- Helped Rebecca build a location independent business
- Stayed off social media for 8 months of the year
- Got monetized on Youtube, gained ~2,000 subscribers
- Released 48 Blog posts
- Released 17 Videos
- Best performing video hit 54,719 views organically
- Attended Church more than half of the year
- Started praying the Liturgy of the Hours and the Rosary
Places to improve
- More exercise, more cardio, more stretching
- More travel, more language learning
- Less wasting time, if I am awake, it will be doing something that is building on one of the [[five pillars of life]]
- Overcoming vices such as lust and sloth
- Outreach and marketing (everything hinges on this, the skills and ideas are there, so too is the execution, now it is just getting things out there and in the hands of users)
Things I will take forward and build upon
- The Catholic faith. In 2024, I decided that I will return to Catholicism as the way forward after a year of Orthodox Inquiry.
- Video and content creation
- Staying off social media ([[Posting but not consuming]])
- Waking early, doing focused work first thing
- Outreach and meeting new, exciting people, increasing the network to one that is more than just my backyard
It truly has been a great year, but I don't work on yearly timelines. I work on eternal and minute by minute timelines. All else is a non-measureable for me. We can change any minute into the person we are supposed to be, and continue that trajectory ad infinitum.
How did last year go for you? Post in the comments below or send me an email!
Reading this not in the first week of 2025? Everyday can be January 1st, and you can start right now.
God bless, and until next time.