The human brain does not seem particularly adept at cataloging time: the uniqueness, the new experiences. Ever since I stopped journaling daily I have been recording my life through pictures and reviews that I upload to facebook, but I realized that there are a lot of things that mark my year that are not seen in pictures. So I started an annual list of accomplishments: what new experiences I had and how this year was different from any other. Let’s check it out!
Overall this was my best year so far. I hope to have the best year ever each year until it’s unsustainable 🙂 . We moved from Manhattan to Seattle and my time to retirement dropped from 10 years to 5. I also originally decided that I would retire in 4 years for my 30th birthday no matter what and started researching ways to make money and side hustle ideas as a result.
Let’s see what else we had going on:
New Skills
Travel Hacking (250,000 miles and booked Vietnam RT First Class, Thailand RT First Class, ATL x3)
Hair Dying (mixing own bleach etc = success!!)
Nail Painting (good at it now!)
Financial Planning
Schemes
Vegan (Didn’t go well…)
Learn to Cook (in general: over easy egg etc)
Side Hustles
Decreasing Retirement Timeframe
Traveled
Seattle – Friend’s Birthday Weekend
Phili
ATL 3x (2 weeks)SF – Bay to Breakers
Fiji – First Time
Vancouver
San Diego
Phoenix
Atlanta for Christmas
Social
Partner’s Coworkers – First Time
Weekly Friendship Outings
Weekly Happy Hour
Monthly Movie Night
First
Ziplining
Aerial Yoga
Moved across country/lived on West Coast
Got a job over Skype and without trying very hard
Ok Christmas w/ Step Siblings
Read
You Money Or Your Life
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Work Less Live More
Early Retirement Extreme
Economics Explained
Millennial Money
Millionaire Next Door
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Blogs
Jim Collins
Living a FI
Afford Anything
Root of Good
Go Curry Cracker
Mr Money Mustache
The Points Guy
One Mile At A Time
Watched
Shows
UnReal
Broadchurch
Brooklyn Nine Nine
How to Get Away With Murder
Galavant
Adam Ruins Everything
Apprentice UK
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Black Mirror
Movies
The One I Love *****
Interstellar *****
Babadook *****
The Guest
Goon
What We Do In The Shadows *****
Turbo
In Bruges *****
Ex Machina *****
Snowpiercer *****
John Wick *****
Jurassic World (BOOO!!!)
Sharknado
Trading Place
YouTube
Drunk Disney
Cracked After Hours
Comicbookgirl 19
Classic Movies
Alien
Aliens
Prometheus x3
Rambo
Rocky