I don’t know about you, but my 2021 sucked. Basically, 100 percent of the goals I made in 2020 for 2021 fell through.

It was the economy’s fault. It was my baby’s fault. Really, it was anything but my own fault. Everything was working against me in 2021.

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Sometimes in life, you stumble a simple tool that changes your life forever. One such tool for me was the Wheel of Life. Essentially, it’s a spie chart (that’s not a typo) divided by 8 slices symbolizing 8 areas of your life you care about. It looks something like this:

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When Audrey, my wife, left the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to meet me in Colombia after being apart for six months, I never expected we’d have an argument almost immediately. Sitting on bar stools at a simply decorated Japanese restaurant, I remember her asking me about starting a family.

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Full disclaimer: I worked and am still working on this game. I’m a senior backend engineer for the makers of Math Makers — Ululab

*I’ll refer to Luma the llama as a “she” but in all honesty, no one really knows if she’s a female or a male…

It started…

I don’t know about you, but I have multiple stages of drunkness. At stage one, after a beer or two, I’m just tired. At stage two, after a few more, I’m joyful. At stage three, the furthest I’ve been to, I get philosophical. Like, let’s-discover-the-meaning-of-life kind of philosophical.

What follows…

From January 2018 to December 2020, I wrote daily in the morning. I went from being a hobbyist to a professional writer, writing over 700 stories and 4 books along the way. When things started getting too serious, I completely withdrew from the profession.

For the first six months, I…

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

Are you familiar with the concept of inflation?

If not, here’s Investopedia’s definition:

Inflation is a quantitative measure of the rate at which the average price level of a basket of selected goods and services in an economy increases…

I used to be a gadget freak. Every time something new came up, I felt the urge to buy it. I’d rush online the minute it would go live and be the first to purchase it. I collected every gadget and every game I could get my hands on.

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