My 2019 Annually Review

Goodbye 2019 - end of a decade, a big year to me. Just like other previous years, I have free time to look back what I have done over past 12 months. The only one different thing is that I gonna publish a blog post instead of using paper and my mind like before.

1. What went well this year?

Building up Hubble Saigon team. Early of 2019, I took remote contract job at 90seconds after left honestbee (I leant a lot and met a lot of super stars from that company). Remote working gives me more flexibilities. I have more times with my family, more coffee times (cups and shops). But few months later, I felt missing somethings: startup spirit, working with a team. I want to contribute more and take more responsibilities as well. Luckily, @SJ contacted, flew down to Saigon and asked me to build Saigon team. It’s such a good moment. I am learning a lot across fields: hiring, administration, management, leadership.

My daughter. Thank you my parents-in-law for supporting us on taking care of #nhim (our daughter). And a big shout out to my wife for bringing #nhim to the world, growing up with her. We’re on track on that part. Now she knows and can speak a lot of words both in English and Vietnamese.

Mindset. Startup spirit, curiosity, process-oriented help me learn and grow fast.

Supporting our parents. At the end of the day, beside yourself, your family is the most important. We totally agree on that. Hence, we would love to support a little bit finance for our parents to improve their living conditions.

Finance. We have better income and better savings, yay.

2. What didn’t go so well this year?

Health. I was failed to keep the discipline on getting up early, running every morning. I usually go to bed late until I clear my works. It affects my family’s wake up time, breakfast time also.

Staying in touch with parents, relatives and friends. I rarely call parents, relatives and close friends first. I shift my focus to my works, my small family hundred percent. Now is the time to think about reconnecting with them again.

Creating products. I have a ton of ideas about open source projects. But I did nothing. Idea keeps coming. I want to do it. I research about it. I plan to do it. But then my own fears and mental barriers keep holding me back. As a result, no product hasn’t been executed yet.

Reading. I just read less than 3 books this year. Many books in remaining reading list are waiting for me to clear in 2020.

Blog writing. I was failed to keep the discipline on writing too. I was shine to write in English. Maybe my blog post will have a lot of grammar issues. And I keep delay to write new one.

Photography. I didn’t take enough photos while we were having tremendously moments. I need to record more our happy moments for showing to #nhim later in case we cannot remember.

Travel. We didn’t travel much both internal and international places. Only visited Dalat.

Charity work. Neither I am. No charity work hasn’t been done last 2 years.

3. What am I working toward?

Improve my family’s health. We all believe wealth is nothing without health. And our top priority is improving our health every single day.

Continue focusing on building my Saigon team. I still have bunch of works to do. However, thanks to those works, I have chances to learn countless stuffs too. Now my mission is only accomplished when my team member’s and my company’s goals are achieved.

Read more books. We all know about the benefits of reading books. Me too. This year, my focus topics are: technology (construction, music and medical tech), psychology, meditation and children teaching methodology.

Write more blog posts. Yep, beside reading book, writing is my only way to organize, memorize and share my knowledge.

Take more photos. I am thinking about buying an used DSLR. Hopefully after reading this blog, my wife will approve my budget request 😘.

Travel more places including both internal and international places. Travel will be another top priority this decade for us. I want my family will able to learn more about other cultures and perspectives.

Do more charity works. Absolutely, after gaining enough income for worrying less about our finance, I think now is the time for me to share with other unlucky people.

TL;DR

Thanks for reading my blog and Happy New Year 2020! 🎉 🎆