The 8 Valuable Lessons 2020 Taught Me

From the importance of humor and asking questions to the wisdom of nature and the benefits of digging deep to live in integrity, 2020 had a lot to offer

Bryan Winchell
13 min readDec 31, 2020
An early-winter sunset over a river in Japan, one of many pictures of Nature I took this year. (Photo: Author)

I remember one year ago — there was much hope for 2020, much talk of 2020 Vision and yet …

What kind of year did you experience?

It certainly wasn’t the year I was suspecting. Thinking it was going to be a year of expansion outward, instead my 2020 was about going inward, rooting out some bad habits and developing trust in my body and my inner guidance.

What did you learn this year?

One thing I learned is that traditions exist for a reason, so for my top seven lessons of 2020 let’s give a nod to that suspense-building tradition of New Year’s countdowns and work our way from #8 to my most valuable lesson of 2020.

Why 8, you ask?

Why not, I retort!

Let’s get started.

8. Momentum Only Happens If You Start In the First Place

This may seem obvious but let me explain.

Entering 2020 at age 47, I felt burnout by the daily grind of working the same…

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Bryan Winchell
Bryan Winchell

Written by Bryan Winchell

A Serious Fool who writes about: Personal/collective growth, politics, love of Nature/Humanity, Japan, podcasting, humor, and being a hippie in Service to Life.

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