The 5 things that matter



My 2024 across the 5 things that matter

1/ Health
- Hit my fittest self ever, as a 10-yr celebration of my first 6-pack abs in 2014.
- Everyday routine is now 2 meals a day, 18-hr fast, 120gm+ of protein, 45 mins lifting weights, 60 mins tennis.

2/ Wealth
- Investment corpus rose by an incredible 48% (not sustainable)
- Current portfolio is
Indian PMS: 47% (Momentum + Smallcap)
Startups: 29% (Equity fund + Debt fund)
Indian Stocks + MF: 11% (Large cap + Flexicap)
Crypto: 7% (BTC, ETH, SOL)
US Stocks + MF: 5% (QQQ)
(these are not recommendations)

3/ Work
- Crossed 10M+ followers across social media (14.5M currently)
- Crossed 400,000+ students on WebVeda (428,000+ currently); Rs. 1,100 avg revenue per student; 72% course completion rate; 6% refund rate;
- Best ever year on YT (800M views; 2.2M subs), IG (700M views; 900K subs)
- 3rd book (Make Epic Money) was the best selling book of the year in India
- Launched Journal for Do Epic Shit
- 17Cr of revenue; 28% Profit

4/ Relationships
- Travelled 118 days in the year with family and friends
- Another amazing year with Ruchi as my wife and my business manager
- No addition in the team (except 1 who left for a Kellogg MBA!)
- Total team size of @wariCrew still small at 13 people (self included) and another 12 partners
- Didn’t lose any friends (yay); didn’t add any as well (double yay)

5/ Self
- Maintained meditation streak. Now 1,990 days (5.4 yrs) of 30 mins meditation without missing a single day
- Read 31 books
- Started tennis coaching yet again
- 6 pack abs again :))
- Watched the AO Finals live - thrilling!
- Trekked to 14,000+ feet with the team
- Listened to Arijit Singh live

Incredible year. Immensely grateful.

How was your year?


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Book I read this week


Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara.
Will is a Michelin star chef and he converted Eleven Madison Park into a resounding success not just by the quality of food, but by the quality of its service as well.
The book is autobiographical in nature, which shares details of how it all happened.

It claims that every business can choose to be a hospitality business―and we can all transform ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences.


Question of the week

Which aspect of your life are your happiest about, as of now?

  • Health
  • Wealth
  • Work
  • Relationships
  • All of them
  • None of them

(and see the results of others, too)

Results of last week's question

As age increases, the need for resolutions seems to go down. Interesting :)

My response?
I do not make resolutions


3-2-1

3 pics from last week

Instead of 3 pics from last week, I share the 4 pics that summarized the year for me.
6 pack abs

Watching the Australian Open Live

Trekking to 14,000+ ft with the team

Winning the Bestseller of the year award


2 quotes I wish to share

Do not use the excuse of a new year to start something that you should have started already.
Do not use the excuse of a new year to end something that you should have ended already.

You are not stuck. You don't yet see the value of changing.

1 new thing I learnt this week

These were fun quiz questions I asked this week, during a quiz
NOIDA: New Okhla Industrial Development Authority
WIPRO: Western India Palm Refined Oils
HDFC: Housing Development & Finance Corporation



🎙️ My top content from last week

📹 YouTube:Wake up call before 2025

📱 Instagram: Emotional Maturity

🐥 Twitter: 5 tools everyone should have for their career

🎧 Podcast: Broken promise


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warikoo Wanderings

Entrepreneur, Author, Content Creator with 15M+ followers across platforms. I share this newsletter every Friday around personal growth, books, quotes, pictures - it is the most personal version of me online.

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