Looking back to 2024, and forward to 2025
Last year, I posted a retrospective. Let’s see how I got on with some of my consolidated resolutions over the past two years, and consider what needs further improvement in 2025.
Crack German: 5/10
It has been 7 years since I publicly started and wanted to be at B1 level by the end of the year. I’m not there yet.
Consolidate career: 6/10
A little better in 2024 but still work to do, but as I’m taking on a new role at IBM in 2025, I shall give that all of the energy and enthusiasm that I have. I’m genuinely really looking forward to it; more info to follow.
No nail biting or picking: 10/10
Conquered.
Gone from 1/10 last year to 10/10 this year. I suffer from flu quite a lot and thought through how to avoid bacteria. From that point onward, I stopped biting my nails. This is a major personal success.
No oversleeping: 3/10
Fitness: 8/10
Same as in 2023 and the two are inextricably linked.
No inferiority complex: 6/10
Not bad, but needs more work (not sure that I can ever get to 10/10).
Coaching: 4/10
Thanks to everyone that has been a coachee this year; I aim to do much more coaching in the new year and finally get the accreditation that seems so elusive.
Help Ukraine: 1/10
I didn’t, and Ukraine needs more help than ever. A priority for 2025 as the war approaches an inflection point.
Art and culture: 1/10
More next year.
Something fun/productive: 2/10
Nothing this year although I have an idea that I really want to start working on in 2025.
Get out more: 7/10
Experience more is what I put last year and I did. There’s more to do — literally — and I hope to spend more time with others in 2025. For the new year, I would like to wrap up my intentions in two words: embrace euphoria. Enjoy life even as the world is getting crazier.
I’ll add a new one for 2025: read more.
I’ll finish with my favourite album and song of 2024. The song is Stačí by Supa, Vec, and Kriss Krimm. It’s a truly extraordinary slice of rap, in Slovak.
The album is Short and sweet by Sabrina Carpenter. I listen to a lot of music each year — and mix much of it, too — and although I take in a lot of complex and often quite brutal music, this album is a cracker. It’s superbly produced and the lyrics are <chef’s kiss>.
Thanks for reading any of my posts this year.
May the 2025 of you and yours be one of love, peace, the best of health, and the product of everything you wish for.
