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“A year without learning is a wasted year”

As each year comes to an end, this phrase always comes back to me:
A year without learning is a wasted year.

Looking back on 2025, I reflect through my core values:
1. Travel / change
2. Learn
3. Teach/Talk
4. Diversity
5. Family
6. Impact (Job) and 
7. Wellbeing

Travel / change

●Countries traveled: 🇲🇾🇹🇭🇱🇰🇰🇷🇨🇱🇦🇷

Travel is more than movement; it is a shift in perspective.
Each change of place—whether short or long—challenged my assumptions and refreshed my way of seeing the world.

Learn /Create 

● Global Learning Center 3L
In 2025, Global Learning Center 3L became a registered organization. We continued working on intercultural coexistence, cross-cultural understanding, and self skill-up programs.

● Multilingual Phrase Series
To keep learning and sharing learning, I started a multilingual phrase series in Japanese, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, and Kansai dialect.
This initiative supports my own learning, and I hope it also serves someone else along the way.

● DIY
I created several items by hand, reminding myself of the importance of learning through making.

● Korean Conversation: 100 People Challenge
I set a personal goal to talk with 100 people in Korean in Busan.

Teach / Talk 

In total, I conducted 120 teaching and speaking sessions in 2025.
I taught global issues and social and emotional learning at two universities, and also gave talks at schools, community spaces, and enterprises.

Diversity

This year marked the first time I introduced more cultures than the countries I personally traveled to.

● Cultures introduced at Global Learning Center 3L: 🇲🇳🇧🇷🇹🇭🇬🇭🇮🇩🇰🇪🇯🇵🇨🇱🇮🇳🇮🇹🇨🇦🇺🇸🇫🇮🇳🇵🇲🇺

● World Breakfast Stories : 🇦🇷🇬🇳🇲🇾🇸🇻🇲🇰🇱🇰🇲🇷🇳🇦🇨🇭🇸🇨

Family

● New Family Member
My second child, a baby boy, was born this year.
Life became busier—and at the same time, richer.

Impact (Work)

My work in 2025 was mainly freelance.
I worked as a remote consultant with ChildFund International, ILO, and JICA, and taught at Konan University and Tokushima Bunri University.

Wellbeing (Daily Routine: Scale 1–5)

Wellbeing (Daily routine : scale 1-5)

After returning to Japan in 2024 and launching a new center, my daily routine honestly fell apart. No excuses in 2025. I focused on improving the 3Es: Eat well, Exercise well, and Energize well.
●Meditate (3)
●Learn (4)
●Eat well (4)
●Keep Journal/diary (3)
● Write (3)
●Exercise more (4)

The learning of this time 

By reviewing 2025, I worked on habit-building through daily routines, captured major events, and monitored my creative and learning process. These reflections will support my growth and help me thrive in 2026.

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