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A public declaration of my priorities inspired by Derek Sivers.

What I'm doing, what I want to do and what I did recently.

It's Me Waldi

Pretty quite around here.

Honestly, I struggle to write for various reasons.

The first half of 2025 was really demanding professionally. A lot to do at my full-time job, rising up and got more responsibility for more people. That's new for me and I needed to learn and grow to rise to the occasion.

I have started to dig deeper on why I struggle to write and boy oh boy have I dsicovered a lot of issues. Perfectionism, high standards, fear of public failure and backlash, ghosts of the past and much more. I work through them but the moment I think I've figured one of them out another appears.

Limited time and focus. As you can imagine, this only scratches the surface and there's a lot more going on but all of these things take quite a bit of time and focus. So there's not much time to commit to writing, especially when it feels difficult.

But! I've actually written more this year, than last year, I'd say. I simply think what I have written is no good and thus not published it. Again, working through it. Just takes time. Thanks for bearing with me. I appreciate you checking in :)

Health

Best it has been in years (though still far from my all-time best).

Lost 8+ kg, hitting the gym again regularly, enjoying it. Nice.

One of the areas I've devoted a lot of work and time to which is really paying off. Also found out that I'm lactose intolerant and extremely sensitive to fructose, also some problems with my guts I take meds for. Working on it and already seeing improvements with some setbacks every now and then. Hopefully, have it all figured out by the end of the year.

Work

Best it's ever been in. Got way more responsibility, starting to lead a team of 9 people, and really big into coaching all of them. Goes great and we see great results just after 2 months already. Love my new role even though it's been quite demanding and I didn't have a 40 hour work week in months.

Hopefuly this calms down a bit soon so I can have more time for writing, recharging, and relaxing.

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Last Update: 22.08.2025