Self Growth 2.0 Week 6

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that your 2025 will be filled with prosperity and abundance. Speaking of which, I’ve seen people post about their 2024 success and reflection. The thing is... If 2024 was a shit year for you and all you did was survive, congrats on both of us! We made it through the year.

There’s nothing I could be proud of that year except.... one thing.

Towards the end of 2024, I decided to take the steering wheel of my life, which resulted in the 90-day challenge that I’ve been doing. I didn’t have to wait until the new year to make new resolutions; all I did was simply take 90 days at a time to change or improve aspects of my life that I didn’t like.

Getting to this point wasn’t easy, but look at me having this proper photo shoot. I would never have done that in a lifetime. I was that broody kid, and I felt like I was being guilt-tripped for wanting to show myself.

Honestly, as ugly as I could be, I don’t think there’s an apparent reason why we should hide ourselves. Gaining that confidence back was something huge in improving my life.

You could say I spent years dimming my light because I was subtly encouraged. The thing is, I was also stupid enough to follow, and rather than standing up on my ground, I succumbed to those ideas. I let people gaslight me left and right just because they were my closest of closest friends. My friendship is like layers of onion, and I tend to believe anything the nearest person tells me. The thing is, sometimes they can be the snake that bites and poisons you. I learned my lesson, and now, who cares what anybody has to say? I take their advice but won’t dwell/think on it for too long.

By the end of 2024, I had regained my old sense of self. It’s nothing too victorious, but I am glad I took that difficult path of owning up to my mistakes, working to fix them, and perfecting what I needed to do. My journey didn’t really stop me there, and I don’t think it would ever. I reset my needs every 90 days and worked on things that needed to be done.

I didn’t travel as much as I wanted. I had to put everything on the back burner because my family was my priority that year. I was suddenly tasked with a huge responsibility, and that’s why even my personal development involves navigating real adulthood.

You can see that this week's chart is a little different from before. I removed two things that aren’t so dire and need fixing. Now, I am just focusing on my Comptia prep, House Projects, and working out. I haven’t really finished and reached my desired goal when it comes to fitness, so I keep on that one. At the same time, keeping only these seems a lot more feasible as I also need quite a bit of spare time these 90 days.

As you know, I am also working on introducing hive to the Indonesian market, and there are some challenges here and there. It requires more of my hands-on time, and I can’t just focus on myself entirely. So, that’s why I can only have a few things optimized for what I need.

I haven’t posted and commented as often as I’d like due to how preoccupied I’ve been this holiday season. I will do that again this month, especially since I want to return to my previous engagement level. At the same time, I felt like my communities have been a little abandoned during the holiday season, and I’d love to revive them again. That’s why I also made some plans so that everything would have its time and get a piece of my attention.

That's all for this week update! It's actually pretty surprising to me that I can stick to workout and everything else in my list despite my current schedule lately.