2023

After the post pandemic period of adjustment that was 2022, I want to dedicate my energy this year to creation. In 2022 I was learned to unburden myself from the external pressures of productivity - watching others around me, influencers, podcasters, personal development books, etc. I decided to stop nitpicking and trying to optimise the environment I was in and started to looked inward instead and reflect on what made me feel good.

This year, I'm taking the softness and space I cultivated in 2022 to my approach to work and my side projects. I want to further distance myself from productivity/self development culture and just work on what I please, when I please. I've realised that invisible weight of expectation and outcome (read discipline) that self help culture touts only hinders me. I just end up wasting energy and time trying to understand why I can't force myself into some regimented routine that worked so well for x, y and z.

1. Resurrected my blog and writing for the world wide web.
2. Travelled the art islands of Japan - Naoshima and Teshima. A life changing experience.
3. Travelled to Osaka, Nara and Kyoto - they were ok, I prefer Tokyo.

2022

2022, was a year of recovery and emergence, for the world and for myself. My life in Melbourne regained stability and I even started to travel internationally. For the most part, I felt reinvigorated - to build, create and move in my life again. I experimented a lot with routine, productivity and habits. Through my yoga practice I also learned to rest, listen to my body and turn inward. I started writing at night, reflecting on my day sometimes writing poetry or drawing. I wrote a lot of code and built a bunch of side projects but this year they were fun. I wasn't trying to torture myself, I just built things I wanted to for a long while and probably made no sense to anybody else.

• In December I went skiing in Nagano at Hakuba
• My partner and I moved to Tokyo
• In November I went to Indonesia, it was great!
• Learned to Drive - yes it took me a while, I prefer public transport and my bicycle
• Started a daily writing practice, I've continued that and filled two notebooks
• Went to Sydney 4 times
• On Australia Day (Jan 26th) I went to an in person yoga class, I've been going ever since.