2019 Highlights
- [engaged] to my common-law partner.
- [Lexi] turned us into a family of 3.
- acquired the license to sell Life Insurance.
- career is leaning towards what I really wanted to do: create improvements
- improved writing skills
- made my first dollar from creating personalized designs – and acquired a new client after that.
- finished reading two books: [Ultralearning] and [Never Split The Difference] and [Can’t Hurt Me].
- start work at 5:30 AM
- back at my parent’s house
- became more efficient at taking action
2019 Weekly Recaps
[Week 1] – *does not exist. It seems like I took a day-off on writing…
[Week 2] – set goals for 2019; Aimed to be 5% better on everything; thoughts on temptation.
[Week 3] – more on goal-setting; delivered the training exercise I created to the company’s Sales department.
[Week 4] – relationship maintenance.
[Week 5] – cold snap; the art of trying; added a new section “Exactly A Year Ago…” in my weekly posts.
[Week 6] – managing anger; thoughts on trade-offs.
[Week 7] – heard Lexi’s heartbeat; dream interpretation; embracing the struggle; added section: Goal Updates to my weekly post – to keep me-self accountable.
[Week 8] – I’m a hypocrite; thoughts on books and friends; advice is a double-edged sword.
[Week 9] – almost got into a car accident; seeking spiritual energy from David Goggins; MoMo.
[Week 10] – burnt out; paused on reading books; failed to flip “Tenikle”.
[Week 11] – office personas; on stoicism; the art of noticing.
[Week 12] – broken promises; energy management; cooking vs. buying.
[Week 13] – the commitment to goals and corrective actions.
[Week 14] – got engaged; used our trip to recover from the previous year’s struggle.
[Week 15] – decided to let everyone know my fiancee’s prego before posting it on social media; on blaming others.
[Week 16] – St. Peter and his ego; more thoughts on trade-offs
[Week 17] – on taking a break; shh what you say says subtle things about you; considered moving to a house.
[Week 18] – dealing with overwhelm; we almost moved into a house.
[Week 19] – what’s it like to be a back-up plan?
[Week 20] – acquired my LLQP certificate to allow me to write the exam for my life insurance license; “gaming” the system: when “passing” does not equate to “learning”
[Week 21] – overbooked: can’t commit to all the events I said I’m going to.
[Week 22] – overworked; invested on “Top Performer”.
[Week 23] – wrote the exam for my life insurance license; thought about personal projects I wanted to pursue.
[Week 24] – tidying up; set-backs; reflections – understanding the deeper reason why I wanted to pursue the goals I set-up at the beginning of 2019
[Week 25] – re-assessed my self-esteem; I passed the licensure exam to sell life insurance; been thinking about doing the Happy Body again.
[Week 26] – End of quarter check-up; the old business company I created is not officially closed yet.
[Week 27] – when things don’t go as planned; acknowledge the small wins; too much is almost always bad.
[Week 28] – reyvi’s baby shower; haircuts and niches; boredom; thoughts on honesty and empathy.
[Week 29] – groomsmen-ing at my friend’s wedding in Vancouver.
[Wee 30] – improving my self-esteem through sentence-completions; invested RRSP with Questrade; turned “long-term” goals to “mid-term” goals.
[Week 31] – misused/abused “breaks”.
[Week 32] – Lexi is giving her mommy a heads up that she’s about to come out; MSPaint request: Samurai = DONE.
[Week 33] – I became a dad 🙂
[Week 34] – the season of sleep deprivation came in…hard; I’m on “information diet”.
[Week 35] – I prefer to keep things on the down-low; looking into creating a catalog for my personalized art.
[Week 36] – rigidity damages flexibility (in terms of routines and habits); struggling on deciding what to eat.
[Week 37] – offsite work party; wanting to get back into copywriting.
[Week 38] – I officially became a life insurance broker; downloaded a new meditation app – I needed to be mindful to make up for my sleep deprivation.
[Week 39] – back on shrooms; finished creating a catalog (more like a printed ad for Personalized Designs); more action, less consumption.
[Week 40] – changed my way of setting goals; reduced caffeine consumption.
[Week 41] – our biases screw up our judgment; still struggling with figuring out what to eat.
[Week 42] – cold showers; it’s perfectly fine to be “stupid”; decided to stop working on my personalized designs project and focus more on writing about life insurance.
[Week 43] – on being “fake”; problems pave a way for improvement; updated my website.
[Week 44] – in-laws had to go back to the Philippines a month earlier; dealing with sudden change.
[Week 45] – getting up at 3 AM; looked into FB ads to acquire audience; cooking with sous-vide.
[Week 46] – more thoughts on the “bad side” of good; decided to reduce my effort on my weekly post; thought about (again) setting up an e-commerce store.
[Week 47] – hyperacidity gone bad; I needed to get better at prioritizing.
[Week 48] – on energy management; how I failed at freelancing; learned about sub-domains for my website – it’s what I’ll use for my e-commerce store.
[Week 49] – failed my 30DT to start work at 530 AM by 1-minute; FB ads fail.
[Week 50] – progress is super slow with my side projects; I misinterpreted what “productivity” really means.
[Week 51] – unprepared for Christmas; sore body from working out…for 10-minutes lol; made my 1st dollar with my personalized art 🙂
What I WISH Would Happen in 2020
- Clear out credit line debt from 2019
- Physical activity becomes part of my daily routine
- Prioritization skills improved by 15% (even though I have no way of measuring that).
I have yet to set my goals for 2020 but these should be the top 3.
Hope you guys had a good 2019 🙂