My plans and focus areas for 2024.
Plans
- Explore boundaries 🚪
- Entertain randomness 🎲
- Keep an eye on balance ✌️
Focus on
- Exercise at least three times a week.
- Prioritise reading by default.
- Consider the healthier food option.
- Complete the Hobonichi Techo for 2024.
- Maintain savings rate of 35% (*unless buying a house says no).
Previous Themes
- 2023 - The Year of Decree
- 2022 - The Year of Foundation
- 2021 - The Year of Creation
- 2020 - The Year of creature comforts
- 2019 - The Year of enjoying life
- 2018 - 2016 - The Years of saving
2023 Review
I think overall 2023 - The Year of Decree went really well.
I did well in all the areas I wanted to other than fitness, which, while it improved is still not at the level it should be. Professionally I’ve grown and I even managed to grow my side-gig business to the point where it’s almost a real business.
I’m now in my thirties which is somewhat terrifying. At least I had an excuse to enter my third decade in style by staying at The Shard, this is the view I had as I said goodbye to the last wisps of my youth.
Focus Areas of 2023
- Exercise at least three times per week: My target was doing 150 workouts for the year and I managed to do 112, which rounds to two a week. The chart below helps paint the full picture. I need to do better, but it was more than I’ve done in the past few years so let’s call it a stepping stone year. To be fair I was ill or on holiday for at least ~6 weeks where exercise wasn’t really an option. ❌
- Eat less takeout at home, no more than twice a week: I’ve been doing surprisingly well with this, mostly due to getting a pre-cooked meal delivery service which takes all of the effort out of having an alternative to takeout that I don’t have to cook. ✔
- Watch less, read more: It took a while for this to get traction as mindless content is so much easier to indulge in, but once it got going it really did. Goodreads says its the year I’ve read the most other than the year I did the book-a-week challenge (2019), which had its own downsides so still not doing that challenge again. ✔
- Maintain savings rate of 25%: Aced. ✔
- Take and print lots of photos: I think I’ve taken a good amount of photos, although I think I can certainly do better. I didn’t print all that many as not that many are print quality. I think this year I will get a large digital photo frame which will fill the same gap as the (massive) printer. 🤷♂️
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