My 2024 in Review: What I Learned and Achieved

There is a saying that before you take on the world, try to solve your problem. Similar statements can be found in the Bible, such as “First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3–5). These statements are accurate and, when applied, make life so much easier.

And that’s what 2024 has taught me. Shift my focus from other people’s problems to my problems. When someone comes to me for advice regarding things I am struggling with, I am very hesitant to provide any advice, which I know I am not following yet in my own life. My solution to their problems may sound good, but why bother telling my neighbor about it if I cannot solve the same problem? It is like the blind lead-the-blind kind of situation. This is not to say never to provide advice, but be wise in giving a piece of advice that you are not applying yet.

This realization of solving my problems occurred because I started reflecting a lot in 2024 and attempting to achieve my goals. On the one hand, I had various goals involving improving an area of my life; on the other hand, I wanted to understand why I could not achieve some goals.

Reflecting on 2023, I realized that I needed an application that could help me to track my goals and activities of those goals. As blogging was one of my goals, I decided to combine these two, where I would have to write about creating the application in the first place alongside using it.

I put everything, as the image below shows; I was tracking my finances, gym activities, and books I have read, and when I was reading them, listAll, a company I started with a friend of mine; we are selling a blender on Amazon, and we have a buy and sell application www.listcar.se in Sweden;

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With time, I tracked my goals and activities better. As such, I started monitoring activities with my family, vacation planning, and all activities associated with my house, such as cleaning.

As time progressed, I became very proud to have an application I have used for more than 5months, and I will continue using it next year, too. This was usually not the case in the past. In the past, I made an application, used it for maybe a month, and then tossed it aside.

The more I use this application, the more limitations I see. One of which was financial activities. It was challenging to track my expenses, let alone track them based on a budget. So, I have created a budget application and will blog more about it in 2025. See image below:

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One of my problems has also been choosing a market to invest in without understanding the underlying risks. I went about my life based on Proverbs 24:27: “ Put your outdoor work in order and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.”. My outdoor work was my investments, such as the taxi business in DRC, see article.

The mistake in the taxi business has made me restructure my investment strategy. Because the taxi had to be fixed, and mechanicians had to fix it. Being able to rate a particular mechanic based on their work is the lesson I have also drawn to my investment strategy.

If I invest in a particular stock, I should explain why I have invested in the stock in the first place, and this will mean the risks involved and whether I am happy with it. This is a realization I made in 2024, and I will use software to help me better understand the problems. I am reading more about the stock market and will understand it in depth. And when ready, I will implement a portfolio application.

In 2024, it has also made me realize that incremental changes compound more significant changes in the long run. I was consistently going to the gym, and my wife began noticing a difference after roughly 50 times of going consecutively. For 2025, I have a bare minimum to beat to see progress in my physics.

I hope you can draw some lessons from my experience in 2024 and systemize certain areas of your life.

Happy New Year!