Updated January 12th 2024, from my partner’s parents’ home in Hanoi, Vietnam.
End of year reviews
At the end of each year I’ll spend a few hours asking myself a series of questions. This helps me reflect properly on the previous year so I set a better direction for the year ahead.
The questions come from a mish-mash of sources such as Jay Shetty, Shane Parrish and Tim Ferriss.
- I ask myself these questions
- Question #1: What is the challenge that you’ve overcome this year?
- Question #2: What’s a surprise you dealt with?
- Question #3: What is something you bought this year?
- Question #4: What’s the best book/podcast you read/listened to?
- Question #5: What are your blind spots for next year?
- Question #6: What made you the happiest this year?
- Question #7: Who’s the person you couldn’t have gotten through this year without?
- I then work my way through this framework.
- I finish by doing a past year review
As I’m doing this, it will start to become really obvious where I should be spending my time in the year ahead. I’m noting down any ideas as they come up.
Then, I’ll revisit my life Vision, Mission and Values (which live in a Google Sheet), updating any that have changed and removing any I no longer care about.
Finally, I’ll set 2-3 OKRs for the next 12 weeks.
Choosing a niche
For the past year I’ve intentionally avoided choosing a niche for what I write about on this website and on my email newsletter. Instead I’ve just followed my curiosity. It feels like the right time to pick a niche and see what happens, so I’ve decided to focus on the area of wealth.
It’s the topic I find myself happiest to talk about with everyone from family to strangers. Making it the focus of the email newsletter and most future blog posts will be interesting. Even if I end up changing the niche, I’ve always found creative constraints to be a positive thing.
Searching for a job in B2B sales
When I return to Auckland in a couple of weeks, I’ll start searching for my next job in sales. My goal is to pursue an ambitious career in sales leadership. I’d like to accept a great role somewhere by the end of April
I’m looking for a job:
- In B2B sales
- As a BDR, SDR or BDM
- Within 45mins walk of Auckland CBD
- In an office, not remote
- > $70k base salary
- In one of these areas: EdTech, FinTech, Wellbeing, being the best version of yourself
- Dream role: Business development manager / Account exec at Kami
If we get to work together, you won’t get someone who is:
- A short term thinker
- Doesn’t know how to look after themselves
- Only interested in their own professional development
- Fixed in their mindset
- Boring
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