Goodbye, for now (+ a gift for you)

My year in review, and plans for 2023.

This week's newsletter is a special one. Not only because it's the last one I'll do this year, but also because it's the first one I'm writing at this time of the year. (I started writing weekly newsletters at the end of January this year.)

I used to write these "New Year's chronicles" in my blog back in the day, where I summarized my year with the help of a set of journaling prompts. (Like this one, for example.)

Now is the first time in a long while where I feel inspired to start doing them again. Publicly, that is. I always do a long journaling session at the end of the year, for myself. It's in these sessions that I realize how much I've actually gotten done during the year. Being multi-passionate, I usually have a feeling of not doing enough, not being productive or focused enough, spreading myself too thin, not really accomplishing anything. At least it feels that way while I'm in the thick of it. But looking back, I'm often surprised. Even I get a lot more done in a year than yo…