My Annual Review 2024 & New Year's Resolutions 2025


Hello Reader,

For eleven years and counting, every year I have published an Annual Review and my New Years Resolutions on my blog.

TL;DR - 2024 was a good year. The highlight was moving to Christchurch. My biggest wins were:

  • Unpacking the family storage unit after 13 years
  • Celebrating my 20-year wedding anniversary
  • Recording and publishing the audiobook of Marketing Yourself
  • Traveling to Australia twice, once for pleasure and once for business
  • Mastering my new instrument, the juggledrum, to the level that I could play a set with a band onstage

My biggest challenges were:

  • Trading for experience instead of profit
  • Taking a stand on fluoride
  • Content creation

I kept 2 of my New Years Resolutions from 2024, failed 2, and another 2 met with some success. I selected 4 resolutions for 2025, and my word of the year is Faith.

Read my Annual Review 2024 and New Years Resolutions 2025 if you'd like to read my thoughts about the year behind, or the year ahead.

I hope that 2025 becomes everything you hope for this year! If you have a Word of the Year, or big commitments you'd like to achieve, hit reply, I'd be honored if you shared your goals with me.

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