Tuesday 31st December 2024, the last day of Year 2024, how was your Year 2024? Today I am Reflecting Year 2024 (Technology | Business | Personal), one of my annual and regular features, looking back, reflecting and reviewing my Year 2024 in the areas of Technology, Business and Personal.
Yearly Theme 2024 (Technology | Business | Personal) – Transcend
Before I start on my reflections and review of Year 2024, let me bring you back in time to January 2024 when I wrote and published my Yearly Theme 2024 (Technology | Business | Personal) – Transcend.
In my Yearly Theme 2024 article, I wrote about wanting to become a better storyteller for my key areas of business and technology. In the year 2024, my “Transcend” had breakthroughs in my content creation/digital marketing segments. Although in the technology (consumer and enterprise) sectors, I wasn’t able to do more than I would like to.
Technology
My regular and core strengths of my TGH Technology and Business portal/blog, covering both consumer and enterprise technology segments. What’s YR2024 like for my technology segments?
Technology (Consumer)
I returned back to doing consumer technology gadget reviews in 2024, I was on a hiatus/slow down mode in reviewing technology gadgets due to the higher expectations on us reviewers (my personal opinions and views). Returning back to doing consumer technology gadgets were fun, however I do need to pace myself and not overload myself.
In the consumer technology news segment, the pace and consistency of publishing media news have slowed down. As I don’t have a team of writers helping me on that, I have to relook into this segment, how I can balance, pace myself and produce more consistent technology media news coverage in 2025.
Technology (Enterprise)
The growth and expansion in this segment is not big, probably more of current status quo. Although I was interested in the areas of AI, writing in-depth AI technology topics in enterprise/business sectors than I initially envisioned when I first started a few years back.
Nevertheless, I am continuing on writing and covering AI technology topics in enterprise/business sectors for 2025. I would also be looking at which enterprise technology sectors that I want to work more on in 2025.
Business
Beside my TGH Photography business, I have been building up my Content Creation / Digital Marketing / Social Media Marketing business over the years. This segment had a slower growth over the years due to ever-changing social media industry, media consumption patterns and trends.
In 2024, it did “Transcend” for my content creation/social media marketing, through collaborations with other content creators, working on different content creation approaches, and potentially opening up more opportunities to collaborate with organisations, agencies and other content creators in 2025.
Personal
Year 2024 had been a year of uncertainties, with regular ups and downs. Running a small photography business, together with content creation/social media marketing business has always been challenging and difficult.
This year was also the start of physical and metal fatigue from writing/covering media news coverage, events (consumer technology, B2B/Enterprise events) coverage. I would also raise my hand and admit that there were some elements of procrastination as well.
Social media fatigue is real, and I am handling social media/content creation work. At times, we don’t know when we are just sharing a lot on social media platforms or narcissistic showing off on social media, it’s a thin grey line.
Life is not easy, it’s very stressful and full of pressures, almost everyone is facing some form of them in some ways or another, comparisons, complaints, being judged etc etc. With all those bottling us up, we vent our anger and stress on family, relatives and friends. That’s no magic formula or straightforward answers to them, we have to find our own methods to handle and manage. Let’s be kind, let’s not judge.
There are more personal matters that took place in 2024, they would not appear on social media due to privacy and confidentiality concerns.
Reflecting Year 2024 (Photography | Travel | Creative | Heritage)
I have also wrote and published an article of my review and reflections of Year 2024 for my photography, travel, creative and heritage sectors. If you are keen to find out more about them, please visit my TGH Photography & Travel portal/blog.
A final note to reflect and wrap up Year 2024
Walking through this rainbow light artwork portal by Very Small Exhibition – Very Momentary Exhibition 1.5, let’s bid goodbye to Year 2024, learn from the life lessons and experiences in 2024, take the good and put behind the bad.
Let’s all be kind to one another and help one another as much as possible, let’s also not be judgemental.
Time to welcome Year 2025, starting off on a new slate, a new journey ahead. Thank you very much for your friendship, readership, following and support over the years!