{"id":6572,"date":"2017-01-04T00:19:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T23:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2017-01-04T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T09:55:40","slug":"2016-year-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/life\/2016-year-review","title":{"rendered":"2016 Wasn&#8217;t a Bad Year (and 3 lessons)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of 2016 I spent a couple of weeks thinking hard about setting goals. Bear in mind:\u00a0<strong>goals<\/strong>, not\u00a0<strong>new year&#8217;s resolutions<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Nobody takes new year&#8217;s resolutions seriously anymore:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My 2017 resolution is to work on my low self esteem, but I don&#39;t think I can do it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrienne Airhart (@craydrienne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/craydrienne\/status\/811664167648169984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My 2017 resolution is to work on my low self esteem, but I don&#39;t think I can do it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrienne Airhart (@craydrienne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/craydrienne\/status\/811664167648169984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I remember being in <a href=\"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/life\/travels\/visiting-ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a>, drinking Guinness and reading all sort of articles: from <a href=\"https:\/\/beradadisini.com\/2016\/01\/14\/on-why-our-new-years-resolution-doesnt-really-work-and-how-i-created-mine-in-a-slightly-different-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">focus\u00a0on the feelings<\/a>\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/featured\/new-years-resolutions-dont-work-heres-why.html\" target=\"_blank\">why new years resolutions don&#8217;t work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I used my leftover analytical mind and chose the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SMART_criteria\" target=\"_blank\">SMART<\/a> approach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SMART<\/strong> stands for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>S<\/strong>pecific: don&#8217;t say &#8216;I want to be rich&#8217; but rather &#8216;I want to afford a new car&#8217;;<\/li>\n<li><strong>M<\/strong>easurable: don&#8217;t say &#8216;I want to lose weight&#8217; but rather &#8216;I want to lose 7kg&#8217;;<\/li>\n<li><strong>A<\/strong>ttainable: don&#8217;t say &#8216;I want to run a marathon&#8217; if you&#8217;re about to have a knee surgery;<\/li>\n<li><strong>R<\/strong>ealistic: don&#8217;t say &#8216;I want to 10x my business&#8217; if you have no idea how;<\/li>\n<li><strong>T<\/strong>ime-bound: always say by when you&#8217;ll reach the goal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may find this approach too limiting. Some people are motivated by impossible goals. I am not. I prefer something that I can achieve <strong>with hard work and\u00a0<\/strong><strong>discipline<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We set goals for our self. To beat the person we were once. To don&#8217;t get bored. To move forward. Not to impress friends telling how great we&#8217;re gonna be.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.&#8221; &#8211; Napoleon on a Hill<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Few weeks into 2016, I jotted down my goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read 12 Books<\/li>\n<li>Run 1,000K<\/li>\n<li>Save 10,000\u20ac<\/li>\n<li>Work 6 hours\/day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than new-year-resolutions, they were end-of-January resolutions, heavy fueled by Guinness indeed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Read 12 Books<\/h2>\n<p>While I know people that read more than 60 books in 12 months, I usually take 60 months to read 12 books.<br \/>\nBut I knew that I can read one book a month, especially if I avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gregory_David_Roberts\" target=\"_blank\">Gregory David Roberts<\/a> and focus on short stories.<\/p>\n<p>And so I did.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 I read <strong>exactly<\/strong> 12 books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2016\/4530144\" target=\"_blank\">GoodReads Year in Books<\/a>\u00a0summarized it very well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2016\/4530144\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6574 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Year-in-Books.png\" alt=\"2016-Year-in-Books\" width=\"585\" height=\"2511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Year-in-Books.png 585w, https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-Year-in-Books-70x300.png 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been a pretty mixed selection of books \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Very proud of the &#8216;least popular&#8217; book: <strong>From Austerity to Prosperity.\u00a0<\/strong>I bought it in a caf\u00e9 in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia. The place was run by volunteers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tzu_Chi\" target=\"_blank\">Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation<\/a>\u00a0and they were so nice and peaceful that I wanted to know more about their philosophy. Apparently, I was the only curious one. I added the book to GoodReads myself and so far I&#8217;m still the only reader &#8211; try to beat that!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Run 1,000K<\/h2>\n<p>Yep, I did it. This one took a lot of perseverance and motivation.<\/p>\n<p>In May <a href=\"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/run\/running-every-day-month\" target=\"_blank\">I run every single day for 30 days<\/a>\u00a0and that experience taught\u00a0me a lot, but also helped move towards my 2016 goal (234km in one month!). After May, I thought that I could end up 2016 with much more than one-thousand kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong!<\/p>\n<p>The last months I could not be constant as I wanted to, even if I managed to run my best 10K ever. And in December I had a nasty cough for two weeks and fever for one, so I could reach the 1,000 mark only a\u00a0few days before Xmas.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, I did it. But it was\u00a0<em>so close to never happen<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6577\" src=\"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garmin-Connect-1024x78.png\" alt=\"Garmin Connect Goal\" width=\"800\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garmin-Connect-1024x78.png 1024w, https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garmin-Connect-300x23.png 300w, https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garmin-Connect-768x59.png 768w, https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Garmin-Connect.png 1048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With its mid-90&#8217;s interface, Garmin Connect doesn&#8217;t really give much joy when a goal is reached.<br \/>\nEven less when it shows the report of the activity per month:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6576\" src=\"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-running-report.png\" alt=\"2016 running report\" width=\"950\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-running-report.png 950w, https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-running-report-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016-running-report-768x397.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the hardest part was\u00a0<strong>keeping up running while traveling<\/strong>, especially in tropical countries where humidity and heat were killing me (I\u00a0<strong>never<\/strong> got used to that, really!).<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 I run in very interesting and beautiful placed, here a few:<\/p>\n<h3>Dublin, Ireland<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Dublin 1 Running\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/embed\/1028957691\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3>Marina Bay, Singapore<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Singapore Marina Bay run\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/embed\/1154198600\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3>Botanical Gardens, Bogor, Indonesia<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Bogor\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/embed\/1154198636\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Ipoh, Malaysia<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Ipoh Running\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/embed\/1113115944\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Lake Gardens, Taiping, Malaysia<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Taiping Running\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/embed\/1113116008\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Langkawi, Malaysia<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Langkawi Running\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/embed\/1113116150\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3>Penang, Malaysia<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Batu Ferringhi, Langkawi Running\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/embed\/1113116052\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Saigon, Vietnam<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Saigon Running\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/embed\/1113116301\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3>Ubud, Bali<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Running\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/embed\/1078267705\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/h3>\n<h3>Olympisch Stadionloop, Amsterdam (my 10K record!)<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Olympisch Stadionloop 10K PB!\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/modern\/activity\/embed\/1445568688\" width=\"465\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h2>Save 10,000\u20ac<\/h2>\n<p>I wanted a financial-related goal. The problem is that <em>&#8217;10x the revenue&#8217;<\/em> or &#8216;<em>double the profit&#8217;<\/em> or <em>&#8216;get 20 more customers&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0were not very appealing to me.<\/p>\n<p>I want to avoid the &#8216;<strong>work for work&#8217;<\/strong> situation\u00a0and find myself running after some vanity numbers, just because a company is expected to grow year over year.<\/p>\n<p>I run a\u00a0<strong>lifestyle business <\/strong>and I&#8217;ve no investors to please. My priority is not to grow for the sake of growing, but rather enjoying my life and what I do &#8211; business included.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I decided to put a goal related with the bottom-line of the whole concept of\u00a0<strong>work<\/strong>: the amount of money I could <strong>save<\/strong>\u00a0in 2016.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Savings = Earnings &#8211; Expenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where earnings mean any type of income (work, investments, rent, whatever) and expenses mean any type of expenditure (business, personal, taxes, whatever).<\/p>\n<p>Only the amount of money I can save is giving me an accurate indication of how good I&#8217;m doing, and here is why.<\/p>\n<p>You can double your revenues but spend everything: this doesn&#8217;t make you any wealthier.<br \/>\nYou can triple your salary but double your spending: you&#8217;re actually getting poorer.<br \/>\nYou can have the same earnings but reduce the cost of your lifestyle: you&#8217;re creating wealth.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not advocating cheap living, but <a href=\"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/life\/frugally-high-quality-life\" target=\"_blank\">I already wrote about frugality<\/a> and how\u00a0I think can increase one&#8217;s quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been frugal for a few years now, avoiding expenses that don&#8217;t make me happier and, as a result, I don&#8217;t need a\u00a0lot of money to sustain myself (1,000\u20ac\/month is more than enough).<\/p>\n<p>But I do believe is important to save money for a better future, as money has the power to give <strong>financial independence<\/strong> and that&#8217;s one of the highest form of freedom: <strong>freedom from money itself!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, I concluded that saving an extra 10,000\u20ac in one year was my perfect financial goal.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, I did it!<\/p>\n<p>It went much better than that, actually. I&#8217;m not bragging about money, but knowing that I increased my asset and wealth give me a fantastic feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back to 2012, when I quitted my highly paid corporate job to start my entrepreneurial journey, the financial uncertainty had a high toll on me.<br \/>\nSeeing the pile of savings going down with an unclear outlook gave me lots of worries. Most of them were unjustified, I have to say, but still&#8230; looking back I realize how affected I was by that, and how content (I think that&#8217;s the right word) I feel now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Work 6 hours\/day<\/h2>\n<p>I wanted to work less and live more.<\/p>\n<p>I failed at this one.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I failed <strong>measuring<\/strong> this one. I just don&#8217;t know how many hours I worked in 2016, let alone per-day.<\/p>\n<p>While traveling I certainly reduced the amount of time spent working, but while in Amsterdam I got easily sucked in very long days behind the notebook in my living room.<\/p>\n<p>I had days where I worked from early morning till late evenings. But also other days where I visited a temple somewhere exotic, and just checked e-mails in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s hard to say if I worked 6 hours\/day, and probably even pointless.<\/p>\n<p>Pointless because <strong>at the moment\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217;m happy to work on my business and fulfilled by what I do every day.<\/p>\n<p>I stress on\u00a0<strong>at the moment<\/strong>, because it wasn&#8217;t always like this in 2016. I had quite dramatic ups and downs.<br \/>\nIn August the sky fell over my head when I lost few customers, my team wasn&#8217;t working and I got bad news from back home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>3 Lessons from 2016<\/h2>\n<p>2016 wasn&#8217;t a bad year, and here three lessons\u00a0I learned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>1. Freedom to travel and freedom to be home are two sides of the same coin<\/h3>\n<p>In August I got bad news from back home. I left Bali and went back straight to Albiate,\u00a0where I stayed for few weeks.<br \/>\nAnd I realized that the freedom to stay with my family when needed is the same freedom that keeps me on the road.<\/p>\n<p>If I still have my 9-5 corporate job probably I could not have stayed with my family in Italy for so long, like I could not have stayed for so long in SE Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The freedom is not to travel: is to be\u00a0<strong>location independent<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>be anywhere you want to be<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>2.\u00a0You need a Team<\/h3>\n<p>I never wanted to manage people. But now, I naturally realized that managing people\u00a0<strong>is a great skill to have<\/strong> and the sooner you start working on it, the better is.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone agrees that being an entrepreneur means work\u00a0<strong>on the business<\/strong> and not\u00a0<strong>in the business<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIn other words: let others do the job, and focus on the high-level nitty-gritty.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I have a lot of high-level nitty-gritty fun stuff to work on, and I mean developing the business, create the procedures, improve the marketing, and indeed managing the team.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing all on my own for a\u00a0very long time and now I see that the only way to continue without going crazy and actually having fun experiencing new areas is to <strong>build a team<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It took me few months in 2016 and few failures. But now I&#8217;m more confident than ever and I can rely on a small team of two part-time WordPress experts, one VA, one business partner (for the RouterFreak project) and some external collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with other people is a struggle sometimes but also more natural than working alone all the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>3.\u00a0Screw It let&#8217;s Do It<\/h3>\n<p>Most of the times, it&#8217;s better to do something wrong than don&#8217;t do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Being afraid of failure or rejections is normal, but reading self-help and business books, listening podcasts, and follow all the influencers will never replace some real-life personal experience.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays is too easy to absorb information and learn stuff leaving behind the practical part. I&#8217;ve been in three masterminds during 2016 and while sharing opinions and compare approaches is great, you\u00a0<strong>must eventually pull the trigger<\/strong> and just do it.<\/p>\n<p>Send that email that scares you (and get unsubscribes), share that article on a Facebook group (and get insulted by someone), record that YouTube video (even if your voice on camera sucks).<\/p>\n<p>Most of the things won&#8217;t go well, a few will.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, now is time to focus on 2017 and write down some specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound goal!<\/p>\n<p>How was your 2016?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-bottom\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;6572&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;Rate this post&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;5\\\/5 - (6 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;2016 Wasn\\u0026#039;t a Bad Year (and 3 lessons)&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;142.5&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 142.5px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"kksr-legend\" style=\"font-size: 19.2px;\">\n            5\/5 - (6 votes)    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of 2016 I spent a couple of weeks thinking hard about setting goals. 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