Weekly Reflections #26: A Fresh Start - What Will You Do Differently in 2025?

The year 2025 has been running for a few days, the routine is not much different from the previous year, it's just that last year was a very meaningful year for me, many important things in my life happened. Early in 2024 I took a big step in my life by doing business and failed, I had to start from zero again. This gave me a lot of experience and to be more careful in making decisions. At the end of 2024 I lost a spiritual teacher who was very instrumental in changing my life. But time goes on and I have to keep moving forward and trying to be better.

What’s one thing you learned last year that you are proud of ?

Last year I did a lot of things and gained a lot of experiences that I could take from many events. Last year I also made a big decision, which was to stop teaching which I had been doing for years. A few months after I stopped, I felt an emptiness in my daily activities. Fortunately, I still listened to my parents' advice and continued teaching elsewhere, after I reflected I was very proud to follow my parents' words because I think maybe my parents' words were not the best, but at least their intentions were the best for me.

What key area of your life do you want to change or improve this year ?

This year I will focus on changing myself to be better, determining the main priorities that I must achieve, making my parents happy before I lose them, and living a useful life. I also want to change the way I manage my income which was very messy last year. And also plan to live a healthy life by eating regularly and sleeping healthy.

For the environmental and socializing fields in society, I want to change it from the past where I spent a lot of time on useless things in socializing, this year I only want to socialize and focus more on improving myself to be even better.

Are there any habits or skills you plan to develop in the new year ?

I have a background in religious education and have been teaching for about seven years, at the turn of this year I want to deepen my religious knowledge, and evaluate the way I speak in teaching to be more effective to be heard. I also have a habit of reading and watching movies for the past few years, quite a lot of scientific ideas are stored in my brain from reading and watching, but I don't know how to apply them, for example in the form of writing or whatever, this year I will try to improve my writing skills because there is a place like this platform to pour it into good content.

Describe your vision and plan to achieve at the end of this year

My vision this year is to start a business again as an entrepreneur, of course with the experience I gained from previous years. For my long-term vision I want to be like the wise words that say "At the age of 30 and under we have a lot of time but not much money, At the age of 30 and over we have a lot of money but not much time, But when we are 50 years old we definitely have a lot of time and a lot of money"

That is the target I want to pursue and hopefully it will be achieved.

I invite you @assidiq @walad and @syehlah

Cc: @damithudaya