96. End the Year Like a Points Pro: Your Step-by-Step Points Review Guide

Point Me To First Class

Devon Gimbel MD

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As another year comes to a close, I have a tradition of looking back and taking stock of how many points I earned, how I earned them, and the value I got from redeeming them. It's an enlightening and even surprising exercise that I believe every points and miles enthusiast should do. I invite you to conduct your own points year in review and even give you a process for getting clear on what went right and what maybe went wrong in 2024 for you.

I walk you through my process step-by-step and share some of my own key takeaways from this year's analysis. By the end, you'll be equipped to evaluate your own points performance and make data-driven decisions for your 2025 points strategy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world.
0:11.4	I'm your host, Devin Gimble, and I believe that your expenses are your greatest untapped asset, if you know how to leverage them.
0:18.3	Ready to dive into the world of credit card points and miles so you can
0:21.1	travel more, travel better, and travel often. Let's get started.
0:30.3	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast. As another calendar year comes to a close,
0:35.7	I have a tradition of looking back at the year and taking stock of my full year in points, including how many points I earned, how many points I used to book travel, and what monetary value I got from my points during that time.
0:49.6	Do you do the same thing? I hope you do because it can be very enlightening, useful, and even a bit
0:55.7	surprising to take a look back at an entire year of points earning and redeeming.
1:00.7	In fact, if you're a longtime listener of the podcast, you'll remember that in January of
1:05.1	24, I sat down with a good friend of mine, Kelly, and we did a recap of our entire points
1:10.8	earning and points redeeming for the 2023 calendar year. Thank you. sat down with a good friend of mine, Kelly, and we did a recap of our entire points earning
1:11.2	and points redeeming for the 2023 calendar year. And I'm going to continue that tradition on the podcast
1:16.9	next week when I bring back the points earning and redeeming year in review series, this time
1:22.7	with guest Dr. Sujatha Morali. We're going to do a deep dive into exactly how many points we earned in
1:28.4	24, how we earned them, and what we used them for. But before we kick off the new year with our
1:34.7	look back to 2024, I want to invite you all to do your own points year in review. And for the rest of
1:41.4	today's episode, I want to talk about why you might consider doing a
1:45.1	point's year in review for yourself and explain what to do to put together your own year in
1:50.7	points review. So let's start with the why. There are three main reasons why I think doing a
1:56.7	year end points review is worthwhile. Number one, it helps you evaluate. Most of us are living very
2:02.9	busy lives, and even those of us who consider ourselves irrationally enthusiastic about points
2:07.8	probably aren't spending that much time on a daily, weekly, or even monthly basis,
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