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100 Favourite Things & Moments of 2025
Here is my annual 100 Favourite Things & Moments of 2025
Creative Work, Ideas & Craft
1. Producing 52 weekly Top Producer Podcast episodes
2. Writing and distributing 12 monthly newsletters
3. Releasing my 5th book, Financial Services Sales Handbook
4. Recycling and repurposing old articles and ideas into new IP
5. Using a 365 book to capture ideas, notes, and insights
6. Learning to write morning pages and turning it into a habit
7. Getting better at blowing my own horn and owning my work
8. Reorganising my week so I can enjoy Fridays off
9. Enjoying the silence at 4:00am before the world wakes
10. Spending time at the State Library of Victoria to research and record podcasts
11. Hanging out with my library buddies to talk rubbish, swap ideas, and think aloud
12. Completing the family tree research project as a gift for Kallen and Nicole
13. Still discovering new relatives on Ancestry
14. Working with great businesses and achieving meaningful results
15. Cheryl starting her weekly radio show on 88.9 FM in Melbourne
Relationships, Family & Milestones
16. Cheryl and I celebrating 10 years together
17. Visiting Auckland, New Zealand with Cheryl
18. Scenic train trips with Cheryl
19. Seeing MJ the Musical together
20. Spending Christmas Day in Heathcote, Victoria
21. Christmas Eve dinner with Kallen and Nicole
22. Cheryl’s famous four-day birthday, starting months early
23. Cheryl and I giving each other identical Christmas gifts
24. Speaking with cousin Louis Villa on turning 93
25. Saying goodbye to cousin Deloris (90) — grateful I visited the year before
26. Phone calls with my brother Robert
27. Talking sports and music with my brother Felton
28. Releasing my brother René’s album – A Long Way From Home to the world
29. Hanging out with my son Kallen on Friday afternoons
30. Catching up with my daughter Nicole for a drink in new places
31. My son Kallen turning 30
Health, Fitness & Daily Rituals
32. 4:30am gym workouts, four days a week
33. Sunday steam room and cold plunge sessions
34. Saturday morning croissants after the gym
35. Enjoying Guinness 0.0
36. Riding Melbourne trams
37. Improving my golf swing and enjoying the game again
38. Learning to bake cookies (lots of practice)
39. Learning how to make stromboli
40. Getting better at pizza on the BBQ
41. Discovering IEM headphones — incredible sound quality
42. Playing Wordle
Travel, Places & Experiences
43. Visiting Brisbane
44. Spending time at the State Library of Victoria beyond work
45. Listening to live music at the Transport Hotel
46. Watching Game 7 of the World Series — one of the best games I’ve ever seen
Mentoring & Contribution
47. Participating as a mentor in the RACV Mentor Program
Reading
48. Causes of War
49. Prince of Tides
50. Thinking in Bets
51. Brand You
52. The Practice
53. Becoming Steve Jobs
54. For Whom the Bell Tolls
55. Shoe Dog
56. Daily Rituals – Women at Work
57. Do the Work
58. How to Write Short
59. The Black History Book
60. The Art of War
61. How to Write Short Stories and Get Them Published
62. The Bullet Journal Method
63. Writing the Natural Way
64. Project 50
65. Eataly
66. The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
67. The Artist’s Way
68. Bird by Bird
69. James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
Newsletters
70. Dan Pink – The Pink Report
71. Liam Austin
72. Mickey Mellen
73. David Allen
Movies & TV Shows
74. Pain Hustlers
75. Black Rabbit
76. The Best in Me
77. A House of Dynamite
78. The Diplomat
79. The Waterfront
80. The Luckiest Man in America
81. Call Me Ted
82. The Woman in Cabin 10
83. Hostage
84. Apple Cider Vinegar
85. The Four Seasons
86. Nonnas
87. The Pitt
88. The Americans
89. Morning Wars
90. Blitz
91. Disclaimer
92. Shrinking
93. Lessons in Chemistry
Music
94. D’Angelo — Essentials
95. Lisa Stansfield
96. Herbie Hancock — Essentials
97. David Bowie — Best Of
98. Bruno Mars — Essentials
99. Quincy Jones — Essentials
100. Sarah Vaughan — Essentials
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