✍️ Last Updated: October 21, 2025

Hey there! I'm Xiaochang 🌭
It's time for my weekly letter to grow a little together with you!

💭 Xiaochang's 2024 Review

2024, you've been through a lot! I meant to review it together with everyone, but due to time constraints, I did my own review first to share with you.

For this review, I chose to use Notion (this review template is from a friend Yuria ), I listed all important items from 2024, making it clear to see the major goals completed each month.

Next, I extracted the top 3 items I felt "most worth keeping" and "most worth removing" this year. This way, I can clearly see how I lived in 2024 and whether I followed my life goals.

The Most Important Decision of 2024

Last year, I made the most important decision: I "actively ended a very unhealthy PUA partnership."

That relationship left me emotionally and physically defeated, in a slump for a while. Look at my last quarter's work hours table (image below)—actually, my workload wasn't that heavy, but most of the time was spent in internal struggle, depression, and self-doubt.

However, since ending that relationship, my workload and energy have recovered to at least 75% power level, and I've started sharing positive energy that inspires my readers (that's you XD) and my friends around me.

Placing myself in a healthy environment and relationships was the most important lesson I learned in 2024.

2025 Quantified Goals

Some people say: "Come on, don't set life goals, it'll just wear you out." But I disagree! Setting goals isn't about hitting every KPI, it's about ensuring you're on the right track and won't get lost.

The only purpose of these goals is to help me execute tasks without going off course!

Since I lack focus, this method of self-discipline works better for me. If you think life should be free and easy, that's fine too, because not setting goals also indirectly shows you want a free and relaxed life—and that itself is a kind of goal 🎯

So, which one suits you this year? A focused life on track, or a free and easy life? Both values are OK, just choose freely 👌

💭 Extended Timeline:Setting Life Goals

Recently listened to Eden 's《Next Year No Job | EP7: This Is How to Set Meaningful Goals》Podcast episode, really benefited a lot! Under his guidance, I listed 10 life goals, then filtered them step by step, selected the 3 most important ones, and finally locked in "1 most important goal." From now on, all execution tasks must revolve around this core goal to make dreams come true faster! ✨

I find this method very effective because I've never examined my life goals from a long-term perspective before.

I highly recommend everyone listen to Eden 's Podcast, he's a person with great substance (he was even handsome during his samurai period 🤣).

🎁 Course Price Increase Notice: "Effective Input ∞ Quick Output"

📣 Good news! This course has been purchased by over 100 people! 🎉

The next live session is scheduled for 2/6 (Tuesday) 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, I plan to expand the audience and break through circles by promoting the course to more people! So I'll collaborate with multiple KOCs to let more people know about this super value and practical course.

If you want to promote or collaborate, please email to express your interest！ Our team will contact you about collaboration options.
hi@knowledgegut.com

The course price will 1/5 23:59 increase to NTD $ 2,999, because I've added a second live session and paid a designer to create a course sales page, so buying now is the best deal! 💰This course not only teaches input and output but also includes:

• Bonus –$11.99 Heptabase trial discount.
• 3 free, super practical robots & prompts 🤖.
• 1.1 Free Consultation—customized assistance tailored to your specific challenges.

📣 This Week's Heart-Warming Share

📌 【Heptabase】Free Built-in AI to Generate Podcast Transcripts & Summaries, Outperforming All Note-Taking Software

The newly released YouTube transcript feature—I haven't updated the article yet QQ, but the logic and location are the same as this tutorial, so you can check this one first.

💬 One sentence per week #Gut Talk Wisdom

I hope this newsletter helps you learn something, feel more connected to the world, and grow a little!
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See you next week in "Gut Talk Newsletter" again~ 😘
by KnowledgeGutfounder Xiaochang

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