My 2022 Annual Review

Time for my 2022 annu­al review.

In this post, I’ll do my best to answer these three ques­tions: ¹This format is inspired by James Clear’s annu­al reviews.

What went well this year?
What did­n’t go so well this year?
What am I work­ing toward?

Here we go:

What Went Well This Year?

Epic sum­mer. Both wifey and I inves­ted in extra-long vaca­tions, and with our 8‑year-old son, we spent most of the sum­mer without par­tic­u­lar plans. We talked, laughed, walked, took pho­tos, went on hikes, went for mid­night swims, cre­ated con­tent, binged tv series, and cooked good food togeth­er. I learned that hap­pi­ness could be found in hav­ing empty cal­en­dars together.

Dad stuff. It’s not easy being a good fath­er or know­ing what that entails, but I think I’m doing quite alright. Regarding oblig­a­tions, being a par­ent is what I care more about than any­thing else. 

Sales. In my part-time role as CEO at KIX Index, I con­ver­ted twelve major brands into cli­ents dur­ing the year. People in our loc­al mar­ket are now begin­ning to refer to our product as a stand­ard measurement.

Video edit­ing. Since I’m also in the pro­cess of cre­at­ing online PR courses right now, I now know how to edit videos at a decent level. Learning about video record­ing, audio cap­tur­ing, stu­dio light­ing, and video edit­ing has been over­whelm­ing, but I’m grate­ful for these prac­tic­al com­mu­nic­a­tion skills.

Watch col­lec­tion. Some time ago, I took an interest in watches. And now I have twelve incred­ible (and care­fully researched and acquired) watches that bring me much joy. So, I’m now the own­er of a grow­ing watch col­lec­tion — and a sta­tion of watch mod­ding tools.

OMAD (One Meal a Day). For 365 days, I’ve prac­tised inter­mit­tent fast­ing by eat­ing once daily. I’m not recom­mend­ing 23:1 to any­one, but I appre­ci­ate how eat­ing once daily makes me feel. 

My first digit­al product. While edit­ing my online PR course, I also launched a digit­al product on how to write B2B blog posts.

What Didn’t Go So Well This Year?

Missed the dead­line — again. Creating and launch­ing online courses at Spin Academy is chal­len­ging. Still, I don’t want to lower my stand­ards, so I keep fight­ing through the pro­cess. And I’m get­ting close to pub­lish­ing two stel­lar online PR courses using SamCart. 2023 will be the year!

Not enough sleep. In 2022, I aver­aged 5 hours and 14 minutes per night. What the heck am I doing with all that wak­ing time? As it turns out, I read non-fic­tion books, write stuff that (lit­er­ally) nev­er sees the light of day, and watch YouTube gam­ing con­tent. My real­isa­tion is crys­tal clear: I must pri­or­it­ise sleep.

Wasted efforts. I spent a ridicu­lous amount of time learn­ing how to speed up web­sites. In hind­sight, it was­n’t fun, and the res­ults wer­en’t over­whelm­ing. For some reas­on, I spent an unreas­on­able amount of time on this project.

What Am I Working Toward?

Focus. In 2023, I’ve been a freel­ance PR adviser for ten years. The endeav­our has­n’t been a straight shot: I first thought I wanted to build an agency — only to real­ise I did­n’t. Then, I took 14 months of paternal leave. I also joined an online video busi­ness for a while. I’ve worked part-time with a sci­ence star­tup for the last two years. I’m determ­ined to trans­ition into a full-time effort before the end of the year.