Yearly Life Review 2019 🔗

Below are my goals and how they went in 2019.

Health 🔗

Sleep 🔗

• Sleep 8 hours per day.
• Wake up same time most days.

Waking up without alarm clock is still a challenge.

Nutrition 🔗

• Drink mostly water, 2 liters per day.
• Eat mostly healthy food.
• Fast 15 hours per day (7pm to 10am).

I’ve learned to fast. I no longer get hungry before going to sleep and I no longer get upset if I skip breakfast. Deciding that I will not eat reduces my hunger.

Exercise 🔗

• Lift weights 2x per week.
• Calisthenics 2x per week.
• Run on most sunny days.

This year I’ve worked out on most weeks. I only took a break for 1 week during a business trip and for 4 weeks when my son was born.

In the yearly powerlifting competition I did Squat 100kg (same as last year), Bench Press 80kg (+2.5kg versus last year) and Deadlift 130kg (+10kg) for a total 310kg (+12.5kg).

In the warm months I did up to ~13 hours of running per month (up to ~130km). I’ve got my weight from ~75kg back to ~71kg without losing much strength.

Wealth 🔗

Career 🔗

• Learn X hours per week.
• Work towards career growth.
• Manage my time.

I keep learning, usually from videos and podcasts on 2x the speed.

I went for promotion and it didn’t yet work.

Saving 🔗

• Don’t buy almost anything.
• No debt.
• Minimize taxes.

This year I bought for myself only 2 discretionary items: a new pair of minimalist running shoes for ~90USD and a DNA ancestry test for ~150USD.

I still have no debts and live in a city / state with lower taxes.

Investing 🔗

• Grow more than 4% per year above inflation.
• Pay less than 0.25% per year in fees.
• Invest 25x my future yearly expenses.

My investments have overall IRR of ~5.8% per year in CHF.

They cost ~0.2% per year of TER, have ~0.06% average spread and ~17.33% turnover.

I keep investing most of my income.

Love 🔗

Partner 🔗

• Spend XX hours per week of quality time together.
• Spend money wisely.
• Have children and take good care of them.

This year we got married and had our first child ❤️❤️

Friends 🔗

• Spend X hours per week of quality time together.

We have some periodic meetings.

Parents 🔗

• Spend X hours per month of quality time together.
• Spend money wisely.

We have some periodic meetings.

I keep sending a fixed amount of money per month.

Meaning 🔗

Awareness 🔗

• Make less than 1 mistake per week.
• Lie less than once per year.
• Spend X minutes per month being grateful.

I recently got more strict about what counts as a mistake, e.g. reduced my video game allowance from 10 minutes per day to 0.

I still almost never lie and never need to keep track of lies.

Fun 🔗

• Music: Guitar, Piano, Sing.
• Videos, podcasts, books.
• Series, movies.

I sometimes practice difficult songs like Mediterranean Sundance / Río Ancho - Friday Night In San Francisco on the acoustic guitar and Chopin, Fantasie-Impromptu, opus 66 on the piano.

Good 🔗

• Psychology, personality.
• Philosophy, moral.
• Purpose, help others.

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