2024: Regrets and Accomplishments

Since 2017, when I got back from Norway, 2024 has been probably one of the worst years personally, and the only one to blame for that is myself and no one else. Why, you might ask... Well, I got too many expectations for this year and all of them got ruined.

According to my plans and reasoning, we were supposed to have a blow-off top in crypto this year. I would have bought myself a newer car if that happened and probably even a home of my own. Instead, I got myself at the end of this year with a bag full of frustrations and very few accomplishments.

Probably the best accomplishment for 2024, if I can call it an accomplishment, was that I finally went to the sea for vacation here after about three years without going anywhere. Better than nothing, isn't it?

However, one of the biggest regrets I have for 2024, by far the biggest one, is that I did not sell even 20% of my portfolio back in the first half of 2024 when the crypto market exploded. I just watched it grow by about 6X or something like that and did nothing.

The reasoning was that according to my strategy, we were supposed to have a top sometime this year, and I was planning my strategy the best possible way to maximize my profits. Had I pulled out some decent profits back then, I'd have a more positive attitude throughout the whole year and would have probably made more money with less peace of mind.

This thing taught me that preserving capital should be a priority and that chasing maximum profits can lead to maximum disappointment. One has to somehow learn; thus, once we start up only again, my fingers will weigh heavy on the sell button.

At the end of the day, I have invested my hard-earned money to make more money, not just for the sake of riding waves up and down and simply doing nothing about it.

Overall though, 2024 has been a year full of life lessons, a year that is somehow similar to 2022 and 2020, and I somehow feel confident about 2025. There's life outside the crypto market as well, but when you are fully committed to crypto, whatever happens to the market somehow has an impact on your emotions.

Maybe 2025 will be better; maybe I will make way more money than I did in 2024, have more fulfilling life experiences, and get my body in even better shape. Maybe... If that does not happen, it is what it is... We keep going forward, aren't we?

Thanks for your attention,
Adrian