New Year Resolutions | Andras Hejj

Every year I wake up on January 1 with a bit of a hangover. This time a good chunk of it was actual wine, since we’d done a big tasting the night before with my wife and our friends Arpi and Nunu from Tomcsanyi Birtok. But some of it was just the year catching up with me.

It had been a heavy one. We started a company and we’re raising two kids, all while trying to keep work, marriage and the rest of life from coming apart, on top of illness in the family, the war, the economy pressing on everything. And underneath all that it was still, somehow, a good year.

Then the house went quiet. My wife and I are lucky to have parents who love having the kids around, so the two of us slipped away for a couple of days. We talked, went back over a year that had gone past far too fast, and worked out what we wanted from the next one.

That was enough to settle on a few goals. Nothing dramatic, just things I know would make my life better if I actually stuck to them:

Successfully finish dry January and replace drinking with sports.
Start cooking again. Every Friday night reserved for cooking with friends and family.
Be more calm and relaxed, trust myself, and keep helping others.
Get ready for Budapest while keeping the main base in Switzerland.

None of this works if I only manage it perfectly for a week. I’d rather do it badly and actually keep going.

Let me see in a few months if I kept my own promises.