Year-End Thoughts
This photo was taken on August 3, 2019 at 10:24 AM. I remember this day quite vividly. On the outside, it would seem like everything is fine as I’m waiting for my order at Popeye’s at the mall. But on the inside, I’m already thinking (and overthinking) about what I would need to do next to maintain a good performance at work, what my next plans/strategies are for the upcoming months for sustainability, what is the status of my mental health at the moment, what I needed to bring to Bangkok in October, and I’m also wondering if I’m going to get promoted that month, and praying that I do.
In retrospect, 2019 is most definitely one of the most transformative and fulfilling years of my life so far. All throughout this year, I went through so many highs and lows in my personal and professional life that challenged my mental fortitude. I feel like all I was doing was always changing, learning and evolving, but in a quicker yet intricate way.
It was a never ending cycle of falling down, recovery, extensive research, critical analyses of what I was doing and the environments I was in, challenging the norms, creating out-of-the-box solutions and projects, intense execution and then celebrations of small wins, which then led to my acquisition of one of the most important lessons I learned this year: Consistency.
All of the steps in the cycle that ran my year was done with consistency in mind, except for falling down, of course. I knew that in order for me to reach my goals for my personal and professional life, I had to be consistent in everything I did.
And after a series of trials and errors, multiple breakdowns, intense and emotional conversations, long work weeks, multiple Excel files, and sixteen thousand two hundred forty-three (16,243) calls later, here we are, at one of the finish lines I set.
I am so happy it paid off. I ended the year on a bright and high note. I did well at work (hence, the two back-to-back Pinnacle Awards and the STAR Award), executed all of the game plans I had, my mental and emotional health is still in tact, I didn’t forget anything when we got to Thailand, and I got promoted by the end of November instead of August.
I am extremely grateful for the support, love, happiness, sadness, wins, losses, and all of the people that stayed, that added value to my life and that taught me lessons I needed to know.
May our 2020 be filled with positive energy, productivity, career success, opportunities, love from yourself and the people that matter to you.
Here’s to a fresh start!
Much love,
Greg.
