2025 In Brief
In 2025…
- …I published 362 new daily posts on Viva Survivors (I always take a few days off over Christmas)
- …I delivered 44 viva-related sessions like Viva Survivor and 7 Reasons You’ll Pass Your Viva for 952 postgraduate researchers.
- …I created eight issues of Viva Survivors Select, a series of curated and themed collections of viva support and developed five new games to help viva preparation.
Numbers can point towards confidence.
The right number can be a good representation of the effort and time you invest into something.
3136 posts on a blog is a lot. It’s been extraordinarily helpful for me to invest this time into writing. It helps me to think and find new ways of helping people with their viva problems.
952 people helped last year through my viva sessions. Over 10,000 total in my life as an independent researcher-developer. I get nervous and stressed before I deliver a webinar but the numbers help point me towards confidence. “I did all of that… I can probably do this too…”
2025 was a strange year. It was a hard year at times. There were lots of ups and downs in my work, my family life and in the world generally. But when things get tough and I can’t focus I can still look at the numbers.
What numbers do you have to help point you to confidence? What are your headlines for 2025? What did you do and what does it mean?
Find some helpful numbers to build your confidence up as you start 2026.