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My 2021 Year-in-Review: The James Clear Method
Let’s dive into the James Clear method and assess how I did last year, aka the YEAR IN REVIEW! Haha, yes, I’m a tad excited (and scared), as I love evaluating how I’m doing in order to see what I can be doing better.
James Clear, author of the bestseller Atomic Habits, has a simple method, just answer these 3 questions:
- What went well this year?
- What didn’t go well this year?
- What did I learn this year?
What went well.
Entrepreneur. Been proud of how Venture Out has been performing. And by performing, I mean the perceived quality of my writing + the open rate of emails. To me, the increase in open rates means that what I’m producing is resonating more and more with you. At the end of the day, Venture Out is a passion project, so seeing it finally take a foothold and gaining is extremely gratifying. Like Gladwell asserted in Outliers, it takes 10,000 hours to be expert at something. I’ve calculated I’m roughly at 1,000 hours total, with 300+ added this year alone. Not that it’s about statistics and numbers, but it does represent something… I hope.
Risk taking. This year, both in my day job and in Venture Out, I’ve been trying to push…
