A Year in Review: 2024

Blessings, achievements, goals, and life lessons of 2024.

2024 was me trying to be present and enjoy the moment
📸: Marco Flores @marco.2am

Hello friends, followers, and various people on the internet 👋 Happy New Year’s Eve! 🎊

2024 was such a wild ride. In the spirit of constantly improving, for the first time in my Yearly Review history, I’ve managed to get this published right on December 31st 🥳💪🏻 (1 day better than last year haha)

Table of Contents

  1. Why Am I Writing This?
    1. My Tradition Since 2016
  2. B.A.G. Format
  3. What I’m Grateful For
    1. Health:
    2. Career/Projects:
    3. Finances:
    4. Spiritually:
    5. My Parents
    6. Siblings
    7. Aeden Pham
    8. Angela Wang
    9. Shasia Rangel
    10. Solomon from Podcast Place
    11. Blessie Panopio
    12. Koreos
    13. My littles: Yerson, Jade, Ariel, Rin, Lisa, Tia, Katrina
    14. My grand & great-grand littles
    15. Karaoke Crew
    16. KND – Season 2
  4. Stats / Achievements
  5. Memorable Moments:
    1. January
    2. February
    3. March
    4. April
    5. May
    6. June
    7. July
    8. August
    9. September
    10. October
    11. November
    12. December
  6. General Thoughts on 2024
    1. Growth Despite Challenges
  7. Goals for 2024
    1. Theme for 2024: Deep & Purposeful Connection
      1. Career / Projects
      2. Health / Fitness
      3. Comedy
      4. Dance
      5. Financial
  8. Goals for 2025
    1. Theme for 2025: Purposeful Service
      1. Projects
      2. Health / Fitness
      3. Comedy
      4. Dance
      5. Financial
      6. Spiritual / Community
  9. Themes, Lessons, and Insights of 2024
    1. Main Categories
    2. Thank you 2024

Why Am I Writing This?

This post allows me to simultaneously:

  1. Self-reflect on my past year
  2. Share personal highlights with those who are curious or interested

These year-end reviews give me the space to recap memorable events, express gratitude, compile my personal statistics, and examine how much progress I made on my personal goals.

My Tradition Since 2016

Since 2016, I’ve been doing these posts mainly for my own records. However, these reflections may also be beneficial to others, so I write them with the intention of a public audience reading them.

For those who don’t know, I do 3 other types of journal reflections: daily, weekly, and monthly. This yearly reflection is somewhat of a compilation of those reflections but formatted in a more digestible way for the public.

Past Years In Review:

In a separate post, I’ve compiled all of the 2024 Life Lessons I’ve learned this year. My hope is that sharing my own hard-earned lessons will benefit those who may encounter similar challenges. I also want to compile these into a book one day, since it’s my long-term dream to become a published author.

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