This year is my fifth year of my website and my fifth year I am blogging publicly about my experiences and reflections. I am overwhelmed about the feedback and reach of this platform, also thanks to SEO of my website, listing my site as the second list on google search after my LinkedIn profile.

This year is about crossing boundaries, facing the unknown and acknowledging – the people in my environment, myself, my behaviour, my work and my own or common achievements.

I had my first full-year at Daimler Mobility AG with exciting projects and a tremendous learning curve that over-exceeds my own expectations. I was eager to perform and overachieved in my projects with success and won many grateful supporters.

However, in reflection, I missed my aim to balance a healthy work/work/private-life balance as the majority of my efforts and resources where allocated in my first work. This leads to a punctual or limited time invested in my own projects. Which made further development of my paper in a journal difficult and finding supporters or business angels. I reviewed these aims at the beginning of December and reassured to invest more resources in the other two aspects.

In terms of the unknown, I faced two unpredictable new experiences this year. First, I became an real estate owner of an apartment located in Stuttgart and second, my personal experience in China. Both experiences had a significant impact on my personal path and I realised, I will follow up and evaluate further enhancements in this way.

I am truly grateful for the year. Even though, I have set some goals for the beginning of the year, this year had so many interesting interactions, experiences and people. I am very happy that I accepted the unknown as my path and ended up on a new direction that will guide me to an interesting future. Despite all, I will evaluate the integration of my existing aims and my new set goals for the upcoming years.

I am very excited for 2020 and the future. I will actively look out for the detours, which is far more exciting in experience and learning, then a predefined direction.