For the last few years, I've written a blog post at the start of the year and a summary post at the end of the year. I've found it a very satisfying process and I think that doing so has actually encouraged me to achieve some of the stated goals. That's not to say everything I've planned has worked out, we all know how the global events of the past few years have caused many disruptions. However, it seems to be a new tradition for me and one that I am happy to continue with, as such, the following are my initial thoughts for what I would like to achieve in 2022.
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**Move to Japan**
This is obviously an easy one to achieve but there are still some prerequisites to be satisfied and stresses to overcome before we take flight and then we need to get services hooked up (superfast broadband) and furniture purchased for our new rental house, only after which will I consider the move complete. Hopefully further down the road we'll be in a position where we can build our own house but that will almost certainly not start in 2022.
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**Continue sustainability drive**
For the past few years we've been trying to do our bit to lessen our impact on the global climate emergency, moving to rural Japan gives us a renewed opportunity to go even further. I plan to write a dedicated blog post on our current and future efforts, we're not experts but are doing our best and will continue to make improvements as we go forward.
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**Find brewery location and start the ball rolling**
Once we get to Japan, we need to find a suitable location to build a brewery and lease or buy the plot. Whilst it is possible that there may be a building in the area that might be suitable for our purposes, it is our preference to build our own place from the ground up so that sustainability is a guiding principle in the design and resource provisioning. In addition to finding a suitable location and starting to build the brewery, we need to build a business case and do a considerable amount of paperwork to acquire licenses to brew and sell beer. How much of this is viable in our first year especially given it'll probably be in year three that our brewery opens is unclear, but efforts will certainly be made to make progress in this regard.
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**Collaborate with others for the benefit of the community**
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Work-life balance is key for this next year and all subsequent years! We have another baby on the way and I want to be as much a part of raising her as I have been already (and will of course continue to do) with our first daughter. Despite the work required to achieve all that we wish to achieve, this will be done via a framework that guarantees dedicated family time. Our future life is going to be a simpler one, built around three very basic needs - family, food and drink.
In some regards this aim equates to normality and perhaps not something that necessarily requires specifying in plans for the year, I don't think it is exceptional for a father to want to spend time with and share the responsibility of raising his family, but for me, I feel like it is of paramount importance that I reaffirm my commitment to family time at the start of each year as it will be a guide in the many decisions I will have to make in the coming year.
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