Quarterly Favourites

January - March 2025

I just finished going through Ali Abdaal’s Spring Reset where we reflected on Q1 and set goals for Q2. i thought it’d be nice to create a very casual roundup of my faves for the quarter, look back at my Q1 goals (and how I fared) and what’s going on for Q2.

Best reads in Q1

• 🎧The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• 📖 The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

• 📕 Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Best video stuff

• Dungeons and Drag Queens

• Severance

• Epic: The Musical

• Life of Riza (I know, I’m late, but it inspired me a lot to make this video)

Best game stuff

• Astro Bot

Learning AI

Can’t believe I didn’t use AI before. Some tools I use daily:

• ChatGPT

• Perplexity

• Surfshark (because we can’t access ChatGPT without VPN in Hong Kong)

Q1 Quests

• Work: Learn how to write with AI - did it

• Life: Edit Bite-Sized Creativity - ongoing

Q2 Life Quest

My Life Main Quest for Q2 is to finish editing Bite-Sized Creativity. This is the single most important thing for me to accomplish this quarter because I’ve got a lot of wisdoms and learning to share from the past 3 years of creating and I want to share those lessons.

To complete the Quest, I commit that by 30th June 2025, I’ll have done:

• Have a ready-to-publish draft

• Figured out how to self-publish

• Send copies to people for early feedback & promo

This feels really exciting and compelling for me because it’s going to be the first ever book I finish writing on my own. And it can really cement me as a writer now that I have my first book down

To make sure I complete the Quest, I’m going to:

• Do weekly update progress to Camilo

• Ask Ali to write the foreword (makes sure that I actually finish the draft)

Q2 Life Side Quests

• Photography level up with Taylor Pendleton

• 2 YouTube videos/month

• 1 Instagram reel/week

Book a call: Have a bite-sized creative project? Let’s give you a starting line boost a la Mario Kart - https://calendly.com/beckyisj/

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