2025 Life Lessons: Love, Health, and Success

What 2025 has taught me about health, success, and love.

Me looking at the people about to ruin my photo
📸: Alanis

At the end of every “Year in Review” mega-post, I compile a list of all the major Life Lessons I’ve learned that year. A few years ago, I started the tradition of separating this into a separate post from the main 2025 Year In Review post.

In compiling these lessons, I noticed they fell into 3 major categories. I have grouped them accordingly:

  • Love & Relationships
  • Success & Happiness
  • Health & Well-Being

Feel free to skip to the sections most interesting or relevant to you. Or just go through them all if you’re in the mood.

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A Year in Review: 2025

Blessings, achievements, goals, and life lessons of 2025.

Me thinking about why I’m holding this balloon 🎈🧐
📸: Bonnie Tan

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

2025 was such a year of discovery and growth for me personally. And in the spirit of keeping up with my new tradition of getting this published exactly on January 1st, I started writing this blog post in mid-October 💪🏼 Fortunately, I was massively productive during the summer (July-Sept) and was able to catch up with my backlog of to-do items. Once I finished everything else, I was able to start early on this and not stress out about getting it done on time. Also, it’s crazy to think this is the 10th year in a row I’m doing this yearly review! 🎉

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. Grandparents
  4. Stats / Achievements
    1. Media
    2. Finances
    3. Career / Projects:
    4. Social
    5. Physical/Personal
    6. Hobbies
  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 2025
    1. 1st Half vs. 2nd Half
    2. Growth, Loneliness, and Vulnerability
  7. Goals for 2025
    1. Theme for 2025: Purposeful Service
      1. Projects
      2. Health / Fitness
      3. Comedy
      4. Dance
      5. Financial
      6. Spiritual / Community
  8. Goals for 2026
    1. Theme for 2026: New Adventures & Endeavors
      1. Projects
      2. Health / Fitness
      3. Comedy
      4. Dance
      5. Financial
      6. Spiritual / Community
  9. Themes, Lessons, and Insights of 2025
    1. Main Categories
    2. Thank you, 2025
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