Oh man....another one in the bag? It feels it was just couple of days ago when I woke up with hangover on the 1st January and suddenly it's December again. I remember @macchiata trying to make me write up something similar what now @anomadsoul and @blocktrades are pushing. I don't see why not, so let's get into it!

Basically right after I've started to think about the failures right now, my mind started to fight with me about what actually the failure is. And hey, I'm not going a fan of "we're all winners" mentality at all. But this particular topic makes me (once again) think about John Kavanagh and his quote:

"You win or you learn"

Soo yeah, immediately the first of my failures was a kind of a reason/birth/trigger to one of my achievements. That's why I've decided to try to create pairs (tuples for all the IT guys out there reading this :D) of failure-achievement during my 2018.

Failure & Achievement #1 - Martial arts

Not getting my BJJ blue belt

In the beginning of 2018 I was aaabsolutely insane regarding BJJ. This never ending world of thousands and thousands techniques and endless posibilities of how to combine them totally ate me. I was attending every class + open mats on Sundays which totalled for 6 classes a week. My progress was faster than the other whitebelts and I hoped to get my bluebelt by the end of the year. Sadly, I injured my knee and later got wart on my feet and the whole year I couln't train. I'm still a whitebelt and almost one year without training, this is definitely a failure.

Trying out wrestling and boxing

BUT! Not having 6 BJJ classes a week left me out with looot of time. That made me to expore the options Innsbruck offeres and found out there's among others also a boxing and wrestling gym. Why those 2? Cuz I can do those 2 in shoes and don't spread the warts on my training partners :) And that's how my "complete martial artist" journey started :D Means I don't only suck in jiu-jitsu but now also at boxing and wrestling :D But I learn and enjoy every training and that's the most important of it all :) And I feel that 2019 will again be a BJJ year soo wrestling was deffo a nice thing to explore.

^{Happy me in April 2018 after my knee healed. Little did I know warts are coming in couple of weeks:/}

^{With lot of free time from BJJ, I explored boxing and learned some basic striking skills :)}

^{And I even found a wrestling gym in Innsbruck. Will continue going here even when healed and back into BJJ grind}

Failure & Achievement #2 - Traveling

No big summer trip as usual

My usual travelling schedule is a big trip during summer +
some additional couple of days trip in spring/autumn. It was the case from 2014 till 2017. I've actually managed to add some tiny ones even on top of that and it eventually made me think I'm a traveler :D I actually even put it into my Steemit bio. Well, this year, I got soo interested in training + had some other things to do that I actually didn't go anywhere

Master degree and volunteering

One of the main reasons why I couldn't travel that much this year was my master thesis. I was working on it almost the whole year and with my daily Steemit activities,
work and training it wasn't easy. But! I eventually managed to get my degree and with finally being freee and not bound to one town, I even applied for volunteering opportunity in January in Greece with refugees

^{Defending my Master Thesis like a G (with 10 hidden Steemit logos in each slide)}

https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmV6XCSNBr6PHbtmqGH1VA4LHG78GGoZN1AU5apgrQhZE6
^{I got this message couple of weeks ago and I hope it will change my values as visiting Pakistan in 2014 did.}

Failure & Achievement #3 - Cryptocurrency investing

FIAT -100% :D

Hahah well it's not that bad, I ain't no Bitconnect hodler :D But I haven't sold my alts when I should have and it cost me quite some BTC value. And on top of then, tens of hours spent n subreddits, reading about projects and in general spending probably way too much time that I initially planned when bought my first BTC in summer 2017. Anyway, it's a ride and I can't wait to see how it develops :D

Steemit, new friends & reborn creativity

On the other side, my crypto adventure brought me to Steemit where my hobby from childhood - writing, was reborn. I've found here superinteresting people and despite the system is kinda flawed in many ways, there's a way how to swim here and enjoy it here. But yeah, those handful of individuals I met here are deffinitely worth it.

^{What buying crypto dips in 2019 feels like :D}

^{@evecab, @phortun and @el-cr (behind the camera) are 3 of those people, why I found it worth to travel to Krakow just for one evening to meet them :)}

Sooome extra points

Well, these are not so big so I'm not going to elaborate on them. But they're deffo worth mentioning soo here you go:

Failures

Kids free time centre - my dream is to work with kids and teach them programming + some other things. I hoped that by this time, I'll have things better planned. At least 've won logo from @nomadicsoul in her SF3 raffle :)
I didn't write my weekly journal soo detailed as I've used before. I feel there are many moments I didn't write down and are forgotten forever.

Achievements

I've handled all the injuries like a true G. Broken wrist and many others, I've always found a way around them or just set my mind right and didn't get frustrated.
I've leaarned soooo much this year. Be it programming or speaking German. I feel I'm going forward with light speed and hope there's no stopping! At least till I leave Innsbruck :D When tho?

Yepp, soo those are 2x6 = 6 things worth mentioning and describing from 2018 + some bonuses:) There's still some time left soo maybe something new will come up and if so I'll for sure let you all know haha :D