- Read 12 Books
- Save 25% of after tax income
- Write a Book
Category: Personal
Reflections on 2020
Groundhog Day. That is how we began to describe each day of 2020 on video calls with work. Every day the same, you get out of bed, have breakfast, login to the work laptop, sit in the same spot all day, log off, eat dinner, watch tv, sleep and repeat.
On one hand one could wonder why it is even worthwhile writing a review of a year in which almost nothing happened because everyone was at home all year. On the other, plenty of unusual things and changes to usual ways of living and working did happen, and it is good to document just what a utterly crazy year it has been.
Read moreA Fresh Start
Welcome,
After more than 15 years of content on this site, I’ve cleared everything to start again.
I’ve now completed bringing over around 250 travel related posts from the old blog.
From now I plan to focus this site on travel blogging with some ocassional commentary on life, technology and politics.
Brad
Goals for 2020
- Go to Europe
- Read 12 Books
- Save 20% of After Tax Income
- Catch up on two years of trip blogging and photo editing
A Short Review of 2019
At the start of this year I set myself four goals:
Read 12 Books
I read 20 books! This is twice as many as 2018
Make a 5% return on savings and investments
I made a 5.2% average return (unweighted, includes investments held for less than 6 months) on my investments. Savings accounts much less as repeated rate cuts hurt my savings growth.
Read moreGoals for 2019
- Read 12 Books
- Make a 5% return on savings and investments
- Travel to USA or Singapore/Asia
- Buy a Mazda 3
2018 – The Year of Personal Development
2018 has been a great year. I changed career, set up a new apartment and celebrated good times with friends.
I have also posted very few blog posts (only 4!), I’m well over a year behind in editing photos from trips. However, life has been busy and I’m being slightly more restrained in what I chose to post online.
Some of the highlights from the year are shown below.
Read moreOvercoming the Mental Pain of Ghosting
This month is R U OK Day and next month is Mental Health Awareness Month, in light of this I’m writing this piece to share some of my story, but more importantly a few of the techniques, articles and videos which have been a tremendous help for me over the last year. Ultimately, the key piece of advice I can give is to seek professional help if you are overcome with thoughts or emotions, it has done me a world of good.
Goals for 2018
- Travel to Europe, in particular, Romania
- Read 12 books
2017 – The Roller Coaster Year
2017 has been a roller coaster of a year, there have been some big highs but also some huge lows. At the start of this year I set myself some goals which I mostly achieved:
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