2024 ➡️ 2025

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays, my friend. 🎄 

The New Year is upon us. It’s high time for a 2024 recap.

I’ve been bangin’ out this newsletter for a year straight.

Here are my top 7 ideas from 2024 to get you primed for 2025:

1. New Year’s is just a regular day

I wrote this article last December after eating 5 grams of mushrooms in the mountains north of Medellín, Colombia.

My insight was this: New Year’s is just a day. Spend it how you want.

The only way to “lose” New Year’s is to not 100% COMMIT to your chosen activity.

If you party but feel guilty about it, you lose.

If you stay in but have extreme FOMO, you lose.

Instead, do what you want and stand by your decision.

If you want to party for 7 days straight, then send it.

If you want to stay in and hit the ground running Jan 1st, then do that.

Do what you want to do. Just make sure it’s actually what you want to do.

2. Assistant quest

Another insight from that December shroom trip was to hire an assistant.

This was one of the best decisions I made in 2024.

I had to go through 5 assistants until I found the right one.

Was it worth it? It was so incredibly worth it.

My assistant is so helpful that I’d feel handicapped without her.

Is this a good thing? I’m not sure. All I know is that my life is easier and I get more done.

If you want to look back on 2025 and think, “damn, that was a good year,” an assistant is a good investment.

3. Table-shaped man

A table-shaped man goes deep in 2-3 areas while dabbling in many others.

I like this concept because it illustrates how to carve out a niche for yourself.

Being the best in the world at one thing is super hard.

It’s easier to become top 10% in 2-3 pursuits and combine them to create a new category you can dominate.

4. Video games

When life gets hard in 2025, imagine you’re playing a video game.

You don’t want a video game to be easy. Then it’s boring.

Games are most fun when you can barely beat them.

This is why you shouldn’t wish for an easy life.

You should wish for a life worthy of your capability to come out on top.

5. Be unfuckwithable

This article contains my patented 2-step system to never be fucked with:

Step 1: Try your best

Your best is all you can do. If someone criticizes you for doing your best, they are a jerk.

You have no reason to be fazed if you put everything on the table.

If you don’t try your best, criticism will faze you because you know it’s true.

Step 2: Practice “Circumstance Jujistu”

This is the entirely made-up practice of reframing “negative” events to be in your favor.

This is how you transform life from a never-ending struggle into a fun & playful dance.

6. Cybernetic missiles

I got some good feedback on this one…

“Dude, this is the BEST, clearest, most accurate and grounded explanation of manifestation I have ever read. Freaking incredible.” - Amanda T.

Take it from Amanda. If you want to manifest a mindblowing 2025, read this post.

7. Start a Youtube channel

I am super bullish on Youtube. It’s become an increasingly effective marketing channel for my main company.

The problem is that making Youtube videos takes time away from working on your business.

Solution: make content that serves existing customers while attracting new customers.

This way, you don’t have to choose between improving and promoting your business. It’s the same thing.

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This concludes my last post for 2024.

I’m extremely grateful to have you as a subscriber

I myself am a ruthless un-subscriber so having you still with me is a big deal.

I have big plans for 2025 and will continue to document the weirdness.

Have an incredible New Year 🥂 

Graydon

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Cool things I found during my weekly internet stroll.

My complete New Year’s Planning & Execution System (updated for 2025)

Reimagining popular logos in a 1980’s aesthetic.

This new AI system simulates reality with real-world physics.

Unitree’s latest robot. I’m terrified and amazed.

Served up by Spijker & me.

4XU | Spijker & Gray (me)

Tieduprightnow | The Parcels

You’re The Voice | John Farnham (80’s Aussie banger that gets me incredibly fired up)