My 2024 Yearly Review + Revealing My 2025 Goals

Condensing 365 days into 2.5 hours

Greetings from Mexico City 🇲🇽

I just released a 2.5-hour video breaking down my entire 2024.

• Wins

• Losses

• Travel

• Health

• Mindset

• Business

• Finances

• Relationships

• Goals for the future

• Lessons & realizations

• And most importantly, my mistakes

You can watch the entire video here.

For those of you who prefer to listen on the go, here’s the audio version (Spotify and Apple Podcasts)

And for those of you who prefer the cliff notes, here’s the outline of the entire video (in bullet-point form)

My 2024 in Bullets (Personal Recap)

1. Visited 10 countries on 3 continents

2. Slept in 21 different apartments/hotels/houses across the world

3. Learned to DJ in Amsterdam

4. Hit a record net worth, record income, and record spending

5. Passed the first full year mark without my dad

6. Experienced the most mental & emotional stress I ever have in a year (and expanded my capacity as a result)

7. Celebrated my first 1-year anniversary

8. Learned to box with immersive 1:1 training

9. Provided significant support for my mom, my sister, and my girlfriend

10. Struggled to make consistent health & fitness gains during the year

My 2024 in 10 Bullets (Business Recap)

1. Grew our top line by roughly 40%

2. Grew the team from 13 to 28 members

3. Learned to operate and grow with paid ads

4. Relaunched Ship 30 as an async digital product

5. Launched an overhauled version of our PGA curriculum

6. Wrote the least “new” content I have in my 4 years of writing

7. Added a new 1:1 CSM division with 6 new CSMs

8. Added 4 new closers to expand the sales team

9. Hit $1m in a month for the first time ever

10. Launched our best digital product yet for Black Friday

My 10 Biggest Lessons of 2024

1. The most expensive tax is not from the government, it’s an unmade decision

2. There is no right path, just bags of benefits and bags of problems. The only wrong choice is making no choice

3. The more you look for confirming evidence, the more you will find it (good or bad)

4. Satisfaction = reality - expectations

5. The most empowering belief you can have is viewing every problem in your life as a personal skill issue

6. If you want to change a habit, chunk up a level and treat the cause of the habit, not the symptom

7. Your relationship, your business, and your health are mere reflections of your internal state

8. The main problem keeping you from ascending to the next level (in any domain) will be present no matter the vehicle

9. Generalities create anxiety, specifics create direction

10. Life is about learning the same lessons multiple times, just at different levels of significance

My 12 Big Goals for 2025

1. Build daily ~30-minute meditation habit

2. Build daily schedule with no work meetings until 1 PM to allow for a morning of mobility, meditation, writing, and my daily workout

3. Lean down to 190 lbs (from 210) while maintaining strength levels

4. Improve RHR to below 50 BPM

5. Heal nagging knee injury to allow for pain-free lower body exercise

6. Build business to consistent $1m/month at 50%+ operating margins

7. Learn Spanish at conversational level to allow me to communicate in any South American city

8. Publish 12 YouTube/newsletter/podcast episodes breaking down my key personal frameworks for iteration in all areas of life

9. Publish my first live DJ set on YouTube

10. Reduce my average monthly spending by 25% to reign in subtle lifestyle inflation

11. Establish weekly CBT routine with a trained therapist

12. Purchase my first apartment in a major city to begin building a home base

What’s coming up for Dickie’s Digest

As we head into 2025, I am doubling down on writing a weekly newsletter + filming a weekly YouTube video.

These videos will break down whatever I am most interested in sharing that week. It could be business, it could be health and fitness, it could be my reflection routine, the topics will vary but they will all focus around a single world:

Iteration.

Stay tuned, lots of exciting things in the works for this year and beyond.

-Dickie

PS… If you read this far, I could use your help.

If I could make a custom YouTube video for you breaking down any single topic, guide, process, business, or framework, what would it be? I want to make the most valuable videos possible, so your input would be much appreciated.

Either hit reply to this email with your idea or leave a comment to let me know. If I end up making a video on a topic you suggest, I’ll give you a shoutout.