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Tag: yearly-checkup

  • 2016 yearly checkup

    And so this 2016 has ended with around 295 posts I wrote (which tells me I slacked quite a bit, honestly 😀 )

    It was a good year, although my writing has consistently declined more than I’d hoped.

    I got engaged and many things have changed both professionally and in terms of relations, but there’s still so much work to be done.
    Looking back I think I started grasping what was important to me and started to let go of the useless things of life.

    Easier said than done, but still a good start. This year I’ll have to manage an entire wedding trying to make it like our lifestyle is. Being true to our ideals.

    It’s like being young again. When you’re a children or a young boy, you think ideals are more important than everything else, and so you push them. You force your way to keep the ideals intact.

    Once you grow, though, you learn the hard way that this is not possible. The world can’t be changed this way, nor do you.
    Your ideals are a foundation to what you want to obtain. A message, more than a true lifestyle.
    You learn the value of compromise.

    And now, at least for me, I’m in the condition where I want to fit my ideals into my life once again. Finding compromises to make them last and live throughout my entire life in each and every day.

    While before I wouldn’t compromise with them, now I compromise for them, to make them a reality.
    It won’t be easy, and it won’t be perfect, but that’s life.

  • december & 2015 year in review

    I started this blog on December 28th last year, motivate solely by the Seth Godin book “What to do when it’s your turn”.

    It was a way for me to force myself to write constantly every day in a language that wasn’t my own.

    Now, one year after, I know that I missed many days out of the 365 available.
    The total post count for this blog right now is around 260, so all in all I missed about 100 days. 24 of which they were the days I was in japan.

    That said, it all worked very well.
    The more time it passed, the more it was easy for me to write every single day, even though sometimes I couldn’t get some “complex” thoughts written.

    What surely fascinated me was the habit itself.
    I was quite sure that to build an habit you needed something like one month of continuity but this wasn’t the case. In fact it took much more time to become accustomed to the fact that I needed to write every day.

    So, how did it go? Let’s see

    December was a fast month. It just flew by.
    Many of the thoughts in it are small, concise, fast.
    I started a new diet (which I’m inconsistent in doing, but I hope to fix it in the upcoming days) and I renewed my intention to meditate more every day.

    It was also a hard month, full of stress and joyful events.
    The posts that I loved the most about it were

    But what about 2015?

    Many thins happened, and while I can’t do a deep list of the posts I wrote, there were many things that changed me in a lot of aspects

    • I started working part time (28hrs/week)
    • I opened up a company, Radici Toscane
    • I went to a wedding in Oklahoma, met beautiful people in San Francisco
    • I went to Japan
    • I started writing every single day in english
    • I started exercising constantly with calistetics.
    • Tried various breakfasts
    • Did a 30 day -no sugar- experiment
    • Started writing articles in my blog Give Me The Chills and a couple were also quite popular.
    • Learned new technologies (rethinkdb above everything else)
    • I started wanting to contribute to opensource ,but failed (at least for now)
    • With my GF we opened up a shared bank account and started searching for a house

    2015 was such a wonderful year.
    Full of difficult moments but still also filled with emotions.

    I started learning to be more honest, to put work in front of me.
    There is still more to be done, and I guess that’s the path for 2016, move forward again.