This is a public annual reflection. This reflection is more playful. I also do a quarterly review every quarter which is where I dive deep into execution. You can see my quarterly review template here.
I chose a door because I feel as if I am entering a new dimension after this two year period.
❤️🔥 2021 Favorite Stuff
🔥 What were this year’s highlights?
This year was a really really busy one. I’ve listed out 5 of my big highlights, but there are some big highlights that I haven’t gone public with yet.
I started the difficult work of healing my stomach.
Found a nutritionist who would help me
Started reading the research and getting a better understanding of general nutrition through people found through places like twitter.
I quit my job as a healthcare technology consultant slash data person and pivoted to growth marketing. I’m helping creators and startups create their growth engines. I’ve worked with many great people and been learning A LOT.
I learned a lot from CXL’s classes
I took Billy Broas’s Keystone Accelerator
Expanded spiritual and psychological understanding of myself
Learn more about Tibetan buddhism (binged David Chapman’s two web books about this)
Took Joe Hudson’s Art of Accomplishment Course
In the process of taking Joe Hudson’s Connection Course
More actively starting using Sam Harris Waking Up App
Created meta systems that have guided me deeply
PASTE
Refined this system and been using
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Quarterly Review Character Creation
GTD based on wants
Quit data tech consultant job to pivot to growth marketing
Take CXL classes
Take Billy Broas’ Keystone Accelerator
Work with various creators — Nick Wignall and Mood Mastery for the longest time
Working with CommandDot
Learning from Asher founder of GotUsers, previous founder of DemandCurve
🥠 2. What concepts changed me and guided me this year?
1. Mindful Hedonism: Choosing Want over Should and Play over Hard Work
Beauty Needs a Witness. Great beauty, both with people and with the world around us
2. Concept-less awareness
3. Character-Creation w/ PASTE
4. Productivity and Happiness by Accident
5. How to be a God: 4th Dimension Anti-fragility
🔮 3. What intentions/ideas will guide me next year?
Train like an athlete
Early to bed, early to rise
Focus on supplementation to kill bad gut bacteria and grow the right gut bacteria
Eat extremely nutritious food like liver, egg yolks, etc to make
Deep Rest for the Mind athlete
Growth Marketing
New friend-making & Deeping Old Relationships
Specialist in they years, polymath in the decades
Productivity/Happiness by Accident
🤔 4. Open Questions
Where's the line between doubling down on your strengths and focusing on bottlenecks?
How can a person be aware of the unconscious scripts they play in their lives?
🍾 5. Celebrate and Gratitude
I’m most grateful for the people in my life. I’ve had a fantastic year and it’s all been because the people in my life. So thank you to you all. If I forgot you that’s almost certainly because of a brain fart...
Friends and Family:
Aniket Mutatkar, Kirti Mutatkar, Manoj Mutatkar, Sarah Ahmad, Nate Kadlac, Ritesh Reddy, Mitch Schwartz, Melody Vinci, Madebo Fatunde, Asher King-Abramson, David Mangold, Pronit Dutta, Nihal Satyadev, Sanjay Reddy, David Perell, Will Mannon, all my WOP mentor crew, my WOP writing mentees, Deepa Shiva, Kayla Hughes,Vivek Manickam, Akshay Desai, Adrian Cornejo, Idean Roohani, Baillie Aaron, Johnson Mulia, Evan Lim, Suresh kaka, Paul leCrone, Andrew Barry, Nick Wignall, Richard Nguyen, David Tran, Venk Potula, Rahul Chabra, DJ Fuji, Ben Wan, Anup Sarakki, Nilay Modi, Andi Docktor, Anika and Arnav Dashaputra, and so much more.