Speaker #0Hi, welcome to The Pulse. I hope you're doing well. My name is Julie, I'm your host and today in this episode I would like to do a bit of a mini diary for me. In the past, in 2024, I used to make monthly mini videos of what I had done throughout the months with like different Shots. where you could see me working, also me in my personal life. So running, seeing friends, traveling, etc. Being with my dog outside. So a lot of variety of cases. Even I think I put in one episode how they were redoing my bathroom and a photo of it. And that was quite helpful and of a reminder. But then for some reason I stopped in November 2024. I think because I felt, okay, it's only for me. I don't want to bother people on Instagram with my mini videos. But I realized, I think, middle of this year, most likely it was around September, October, actually, maybe, yeah, the last couple of months, that I missed those videos. Not because I need to dwell on the past. Not because I need to focus on, yeah, what I had achieved and overly... through what I've done prior, but more as a kind of reminder of everything that I've done each month, because sometimes I forget what I have achieved or what I have accomplished, or even the daily fun that I had. And I've had this book that I've worked on since the very beginning of my career. Actually, one of my first leaders provided to me a book called the book of achievements where Now, what I've done with it is that monthly I write two or three achievements that I've had. They can be personal, they can be professional. And that helped me not forget that even small achievements are big achievements in a way. And also ensuring that my mind stays in that positive setup. And while I've done this and it's still working in 2025, I still felt like beyond the achievement, there was also those topics that... I don't need to write automatically about or they're not seen. And I give an example, for example, for I give an example, for example, I give an example in the case of running the months is that I have a race. Great achievement. If I finished, if I got the medal, if I did a great time, I can clearly put an achievement on that book. Right. But all the work in between is not written. All the session, potentially a session in the rain. in difficult timing, me still going out in the cold of whatever situation is not there. I can find it on Strava, but I don't automatically have the weather on Strava, but I cannot see, I cannot be reminded of this is what I've achieved this month, unless I have a way or it's not even an achievement, unless I put a way for me to remind myself of it. So I will... I think let's go in December. Or maybe I will do one in December already for me. But I've decided that I will start again. This will be on my private channel. But I wanted to have this little mini recap of each month. And that potentially will only be for me. And I want it to stay for me. Even though I put it on Instagram. It's because I feel like if I just keep it in my photos and video, it gets lost. But that couple of minutes, usually five. five minutes or so help me remember everything that I have achieved and in the case also or everything that I've done and the fun time I had throughout the months in all areas of my life and not look at that one achievement as the only thing. So yeah that was the first part of what I wanted to say but I wanted this episode to also be on sharing a bit I have talked in the first episodes about what are my lessons. But I would also like to talk about what are my achievements. And that might be very, not biased, but I think it's really just for me, I guess, this episode. But I do think it's important to look at it and to celebrate. And I won't go into too much detail when it comes to my work because I've had some great achievements. But I want to talk more about my personal achievements. And the first one, of course. is when it comes to running. And I ran my longest race this year. I ran 27k and 700 meters of elevation, I think. But I also ran two half marathons. I improved my time. I thought I would go under an hour in the 10k. Unfortunately, I got sick this weekend, so I couldn't run my last race. So let's see. I mean, you can tell I'm doing better today, but unfortunately not good enough for running on Sunday. So let's see how I feel by the time by next year. But I'm hoping that this will be an achievement. But I'm already very proud of what I've achieved over the last 11 months. And when it comes to running. So that's the first achievement. I think the second achievement is. Even though it was a hard time, he's resilient of handling the situation with my dog and finding solutions and alleviating my negative feelings and finding ways to still be happy in the difficult time. He's still doing okay, but this has been a tough year health-wise. So I'm grateful that he's there, that he's doing good. And I'm grateful that we could both go through the year. I think another achievement is starting this podcast. I mean, come on. I'm very proud that I'm actually holding the episodes every two weeks, that I'm even able to do Podmas, even if it's shorter episodes. But I have to acknowledge this because for a long time, I didn't even feel that was an achievement. It just felt like, okay, yeah, I mean, a couple of people are listening, but what? And I think I have to remind myself that doesn't matter if it's one person or 100 people. It's still amazing that I'm able to do that and that I really put it. I have been wanting to do this for a long time in terms of a different context and it didn't feel right. So I readjusted and I decided in June, let's do it. Let's let's start. I used my vacation to kick it off and get motivated. And then the topic started flowing and I'm happy that I'm keeping it up. And I really want to keep going in 2026. But I want to acknowledge. for myself that I'm very proud that I'm doing this podcast and I really see it as an achievement not only doing the first one but the fact that I keep going every two weeks. Another achievement of mine I would say is I have done a lot of things to get out of my comfort zone and I've talked about it in a prior episodes how I had this weekly things that I wanted to try on and I've done No. I would say 60% of the weeks I have accomplished something from the Rubik's Cube that is actually behind me. I'm showing it on the camera and I don't know if this will be part of the Reels or not, but this is actually finished and completed and I'm very proud of that one. But I'm also very proud of having done some habits change that I started for a week using the Book of Habits and other Atomic Habits books. And then continuing it throughout the year. So while of course I would have liked to truly do one per week, I did not achieve that. But I did quite well in achieving about 60% of the list. I will do this again next year. Maybe not weekly. I'm thinking every two weeks again to avoid making it too heavy for my day to day. But I do feel it's been quite a year of challenges. And I'm very proud of that. I'd mentioned I have some other topics. I think I don't have the time to enumerate the more detailed one, but I just think that I have made some huge progress. Some of them don't look big yet, and they are the first step towards something more, but I'm happy to be on the way to looking ahead. And that would be a little bit this episode. So I would love to hear if there is an achievement you're very proud of or something you have done this year that... you want to share with everyone. I'm looking forward to 2026 and achieving more, but it's important to recognize what we have all achieved in 2025. And while it was a difficult year personally, I think a lot has been going on, and I'm very proud to have accomplished most of the list that I wanted, actually. So yeah, that's it for today. I hope you liked... podmas still and you like this short version of episodes we only have a few more because i think this is episode 10 we have two more to go until the end of podmas and then i will be taking a break and continuing in january in the meantime i wish you a very nice day please like follow subscribe whatever i am on all the platforms so apple podcast spotify youtube deezer and many more So don't hesitate to write comments, to like, and let me know your feedback. I wish you all a very nice day and I talk to you soon. Bye.
