1 Year Update ✈️

Health

• My physical health is improving gradually.

• I’ve had more time to focus on it now. I spend 90-120 minutes every morning walking and working out.

• I’ve lost 7 KGs in the last 9 weeks 🤩

• Progress has accelerated since I hired a health coach last month.

• Apart from this my mental health and happiness levels are at an all time high.

• I feel less anxious, more calm and generally positive towards my life.

• I feel excited to wake up every morning and start working, which is a huge improvement since my employment days.

Wealth

• We overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can do in 10 years.

• Last year, I honestly thought I would have solid business that will be making me decent money by now.

• While I have managed to make the same money as my corporate job (at least that’s what my taxes tell me 🤣), but I haven’t enjoyed all the businesses I’ve tried so far. 🙄

• For the next year, my goal is to make less money, but figure out a sustainable business model.

• My savings are still intact and my runway stands somewhere between 18 and 24 months.

• Earlier this year my goal was to work with an abundance mindset and not focus on money, instead focus on doing work that excites me.

• Which is happening right now 😄

• I continue invest my savings in low cost mutual funds and hope reap the benefits of compounding over the long term.

• My expenses are low so I can manage with a loss in earnings for a while.

Relationships

• My wife Aditi stands as a rock of support for me financially, emotionally and spiritually ❤️

• I’m able to spend so much quality time with her now. We’ve even traveled to multiple amazing places together over the last year.

• We’re traveling a lot more as a family now as well. As my son Neo grows older I want to take him to interesting places and see the world with him.

• I’m spending more time with him in general. Helping him out with school work, playing cricket with him, and even teaching him how to swim.

• Trust me, there are few things more beautiful in life than listening to your 7 year old son’s day in school - how he performs his duties as a monitor, how did his tests go, and which classmate annoys him the most 😆

• As he grows older, I know this time and age will never come back, that’s why I’m so glad to be here with him to witness and shape the formative years of his life.

• I’m also spending more time with my parents and parents in law.

• We’ve fallen in love with board games as a family.

• And we spend almost every evening playing Scotland Yard, Catan, Ticket to Ride or Monopoly deal.

• More trips with family and friends are planned towards the end of year which I’m so excited for.

• Time is the most important resource in our lives, and I feel so glad that I’m able to spend so much time with the people that matter the most to me 🤗

Final Word

• My assumptions from last year still hold true!

• My opinion of whether you should quit your job or not is still the same, read this section from last year’s post.

• Overall, my quality of life has improved, but there is still the uncertainty of a business working out, which I think I will have to learn to live with. Most people I’ve spoken to live with this uncertainty, and I’m getting better at dealing with it as well.