It is New Years Eve and I cannot let the year, and indeed the decade, go without an overview. 2009 has been a very eventful year for most of us so I would love to know what has happened this year for you!

Personally a lot has happened which has changed my life, the first of course being the birth of Success Circuit. The New Year will be 1 year since the first post in which I spoke of the goals and what I hoped to achieve, more about that tomorrow. This has pushed me in many ways, I have met many new people (both readers and interviewees), many of whom have been of immense help to me and are some of the most motivational people I know.

Another new aspect of my life came and an old one left, I finished School and started College. That may sound a very silly thing to talk about, but it was a big change that happened this year. New friends, teachers and motivational people to meet. In September I decided to join the Young Enterprise group at College which is basically 14 young people (first years – between 16 and 17 years old) joining together and starting a company. We started Neo Flow, which I am currently working on a website for. Neo Flow has sold a variety of products, including Christmas gifts and hot chocolate, to raise money for our main venture… customised hoodies, lots of fun!

This post is called ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ for a very good reason; many good things have happened, luckily very few bad but there is some ugly! What would an end of year post be without some photos?

Yep, every year since I started School, I have been involved in a local amateur dramatics group… we had a lot of fun this year, not just with performing Cinderella but also because I was in the mood for photos. Over 200 all of me, and I’m usually the guy that stays behind the camera! I mention drama because I believe that my first performance (which was Peter Pan and I played John), dramatically changed my life. Why? CONFIDENCE! I was so shy when I started but by the end I had improved my confidence by a lot and there is a chance that without it I may not have had the confidence to try to have an “online presence”. So, for all you shy people out there… try acting, or some other group club, it’s fun!
Now it is time to have a look at some of my favourite posts of the year.

• Maslows Hierarchy of Needs – This has to be my favourite post of the year as it taught me many lessons. I believe I have told the story before but this post was meant as a guest post for ProBlogger but Darren graciously declined it due to the fact it had nothing to do with blogging. Fine! I was expecting that. I then spoke to John Chow, a big figure in the Make Money Online niche which is in some aspects similar to my own, he did the same.
  I did not let that get me down. I published it on Success Circuit and am now laughing. That post is my most viewed page of the year. In my opinion it is perfect for my little niche (whichever it may be, Success, Motivation, Inspiration… I call it my own little niche as some believe it covers many other niches and others say it covers none) as it is about improving oneself… perfect!
• The Truth about Lonely Designs – One of my first posts, I am still proud of it as it allowed me to start afresh in terms of moving on and forgetting about the problems I had with Lonely Designs, it allowed me to show my honesty and give everybody the opportunity to learn from my mistakes.
• The (Gigantic) Link Fest – I love to help people, linking to their sites is one way of doing that. So this massive link festival was a great way of me “sharing the love” as well as helping some of you find new websites to follow. Also, it was a great way for me to learn about new websites and meet new people!
• He’s A Lady – The Sickening Story Of James Chartrand – A recent post of mine which is basically just an introduction to the main post on copyblogger. It is in this list because of the story behind it, so powerful and sickening at the same time. It is a story that everybody in the world deserves to have read and learn from.
• Interviews – Okay, not a post but each interview published on Success Circuit is published for a reason… they are all inspirational and motivational. I had to put an interview on this list but could not choose one… so have them all!

Now I must go, please let us all know your good, bad and ugly of 2009!