Introduction

I’ve made a serious mistake when I’ve ignored the orange wind alert for the Canton and still went out road biking. I’ve seen that there is an alert and that it will rain, however, I wanted to go for a quick one hour ride and didn’t check the details too much. The orange alert means: significant hazard: highest wind gusts in exposed locations: in the plains: 90-120 km/h. I should have understood and evaluated the risks before going out.

In this post I’ll share the review of my 2018, the things which I’ve learnt, the things which I’ve struggled with and the plans for 2019.

Achivements list 2018

• I’ve built my relationship with my girlfriend to make it even stronger
• I’ve inspired a friend to lose weight and eat more healthy food
• I’ve ispired people to be more mindful and shared another point of view
• I’ve created my vision and every day I get closer to it
• I got a life coach and learned countless things from him
• I’ve started working 80% instead of 100% (meaning I don’t work on Mondays) in February
• I’ve written and published my first book
• I’ve restarted my blog and blog consistently (32+ posts, 14 pages, 15+ newsletters, countless social media posts)
• I meditate every day since 12th of May
• I’m a vegetarian and doing intermittent fasting since 5th of December
• I’ve spent hundreds of hours learning: reading books, listening to podcasts, audiobooks, watching videos and courses, attending meetups
• I’ve collected way too many ideas to implement, now they are in incubator status and developing further
• I’ve spent more time with my family
• I’ve learnt many things from many people

I hope you survived the Christmas, spent meaningful time with your family and had delicious food.

Originally I wanted to share my achievements for 2018 and plans for 2019, however the planning is still in progress, so I’ll do that in a later post.

It’s the perfect time of the year to review the past year and plan for this one. I’ll recommend two tools to help you with this below. I’ve used them both (unravel your year this time) and they are great tools.

Before the recommendations let me share my list of questions to help you evaluate your current situation. These questions are inspired by the getting things done horizons by David Allen and many others.

Horizon 5: Purpose and principles

What is your purpose? Who are you, really? Are you connected to your soul? Do you feel good in your body? Do you feel integrated? Are you dependent, independent or interdependent? Are you fulfilling your purpose and reaching your dreams? Are you spending enough time on the important things?