Annual Retrospective

I started doing these retrospectives 3 years ago in my first year of independence. I reckon they're a good thing for everyone to do if not in written form then at least mentally to look back on your achievements of the year. They're a great way of reflecting on success (and indeed, on failures) and they also help explain why we all feel so damn tired by the end of the year! Here's my 2018 highlights, starting with travel: Travel "Oh yeah, I'm totally gonna travel less this year" - me every sin...

I look back a lot more than what I suspect people realise. Not in a reminiscent way, but rather because I find it helps me put things in perspective. A lot of people like to set personal goals or objectives so that there's something specific they're setting out to achieve but for me personally, I just want to see progress. I want to be able to do these retrospectives - not just on Jan 1 but every day - and say to myself "yeah, I'm happy with how far I've moved ahead". And believe me when I say t...

I never used to do these "year in review" style things, but 2015 was a really foundational year for me in many ways so I wrote a 2015 retrospective [https://www.troyhunt.com/2015-retrospective/]. Thinking about it over the last few weeks as we approached the end of 2016, a bunch of stuff really stuck out in my mind and I think it's healthy to look back at what you've done and take a moment to reflect. Here are the things that were highlights for me: I launched a new blog One of the best things...

I don’t normally do the year in review thing, but then I don’t normally have a year like this either. Whilst it may not seem like it to the casual observer, life changed in so many significant ways in 2015, more so than any time in probably the last 15. The other day I was having a spin back through my tweets with media and I realised just how nuts things had been, so I thought I might capture a bunch of them here as they really tell the story. This is as much for me to reflect on the year as...