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2024: The Year in Review

2023 gifted me 5 extra kgs, and despite my best efforts in 2024, I couldn’t shed them. The silver lining? At least it didn’t increase! 😅. Yeah, that is about my weight gaining. Over the past few years, I’ve been setting pull-up goals and missing them entirely. So, this year, I’ve decided to focus on chest press and squat goals — aiming for at least 20 kgs. I’m also thinking of setting a 390-minute sleep routine. Lately, I’ve been overindulging in sleep (450+ minutes on most days). I use two alarm timings, but they aren’t helping much, so I’m switching to a single-alarm system. I also plan to include some basic morning stretches.

Despite my poor eyesight, 2024 saw me continuing my long-standing tradition of binge-watching movies and Tamil serials. This year, I really enjoyed Oppenheimer, The Art of Flight, O2, Blink, and Ghoomer. This is perhaps lesser than the previous years. The Guns of Navarone, Laughing Bhudha, Level Cross were disappointing.

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On the reading front, I managed to touch over 20 books this year. I started the year with Let’s Talk Money, which I highly recommend to Indian beginners exploring personal finance. While some books in between felt boring or confusing, Memory Man turned out to be an engaging novel. Letters to a Young Poet was an intriguing read, and I found Outrageous Fortunes quite thought-provoking. Before the Coffee Gets Cold was decent, but I decided to skip the rest of the series. Daniel Mitchell’s books, I’ve realized, aren’t for me. 😊 I’m also curious why Steve Jobs reread The Autobiography of a Yog — while it’s well-written, I didn’t find it particularly useful except for Kriya Yoga. Lastly, The Book Thief felt okay to me, I did watch the movie as well. The Greatest Show on Earth was good, but I couldn’t give it my full attention.

On the investment side (for the first time, apart from FDs), I ventured into Mutual Funds this year. Everything is in the red since the start. 😊 My friends keep telling me to wait it out, so I’ll do just that — even though the red is getting darker by the week. 😅

Expense tracking is becoming one of the toughest things for me :( I’ll try to update on this later.

Goals for 2025

  • Read at least 12 books.
  • Explore different tea spots in and around Chennai — to visit new places and Chennai is still new to me (I couldn’t get to this in 2024).
  • Try micro-journaling.
  • Deep-dive into Mutual Funds and shares.
  • Go paperless — digitize as much as possible.

— — Here’s to a productive and exciting 2025! ✨ — —

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