2024 began with fire & chaos and a lot of gratitude for what we've achieved and what I would focus on this year. Gratitude is a powerful process and a humbling feeling. It is also my first step for thinking through next year: What we're building, will be launching and reiterating based on user feedback. You can't "plan" the entire year. But you can visualize "what" you want out of it. For me, it starts with visualizing the current year without bullshiting myself. To do that, I start with gratitude. I've spent 3 days trying to be grateful for 2024. I haven't been able to have my "2024 Wrapped" yet. Writing helps. So sharing what I asked and answered myself: What's the overall feeling when you think about 2024? Me: Disbelief at the opportunity. Dreamlike. Excruciating growing pains and huge growth marks. 2024 has been the most exciting and crazy year of my life and career so far. I have a bench of crazy-ass mentors & coaches patiently expecting and pushing me to ship & sell at Bay Area standards. The opportunity, the gap, and the timeline is a combination of excitement, crushing terror, and back. This coupled with an amazing team that's giving their all to build & ship together. They're the ones checking up on how regular I am with founder-led content too. 😂 Side note: I've never written so much.. it's awkward but it's critical. I'm following Adam Robinson's advice and sticking to it for 2025. 🙏🏻 Building & learning has never been this energizing. I've never shied away from getting back up after failing. The past 6 years at Disrupt.com drummed this resilience further.🔥🚀 ✨ I'm grateful of the reality: we're alive in the most amazing times in human history. The opportunities that exist today for creating impact, happiness, and wealth have never existed in the past 5000 years of human history. The only way to cash on them is to stay abreast of change, be clear on our next move, unlearn & relearn fast, and execute like crazy. ✨🚀 Finally, there's been a lot more love than I could process and be grateful for, acute personal awareness and humility at what I don't know or can't do, greater responsibility for my health, and growth as a family -- we've moved houses twice this year. After staying put for 19 years in one place. 2024 has jolted us for what's next: constant change, adapting & thriving in it, and building a product to enable people and organizations do the same.❤️🔥 I am pumped and grateful as the year ends. And I keep looking back to one of my favorite quotes from Antoine de Saint Exupery: "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it." 🥹 The first step is to show up. I recall it from my university years, debating. It will be the quote of 2025. Wishing everyone the strength & resilience to continue showing up and taking the next step towards their dreams. All the best! #Gratitude #TeamWork #DreamWork #Wrapped #Resilience #Leadership
This was such an energizing read! Your focus on gratitude and reflection as tools for growth really stands out. It is inspiring to see how you balance the excitement of building with the realities of constant change, all while leading with such clarity. Wishing you more bold moves and meaningful milestones ahead. Here’s to continuing to show up, adapt, and create impact in 2025!
What an inspiring reflection to close out 2024!! Loveee your focus on gratitude, resilience, and embracing both the chaos and opportunities is so grounding. The emphasis on showing up, iterating, and building with purpose is a powerful reminder for all of us. Wishing you and your team even greater milestones in 2025 and thank you for sharing this journey! 🚀
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1wLink to the post on my planning process: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hamzaalishahjahan_planningfor2025-futureofwork-clarity-activity-7270853000259063808-aRjl All the best! 🔥🚀