know a person that I really don't respect that much said something really smart to me and

even though I don't talk to them that much anymore almost at all what they said to me has

stuck in me so much that it really drives my actions so much so lesson to you when you tell someone

something you never know how your words will sit with them.

So what did they say?

Anyway, what they said to me was, sometimes you have to go slow to go fast.

I want you to let that sink in for seconds.

Go slow to go fast.

And that really means, you know, you might want to be in a hurry to go do that thing you

want to do dive right in but sometimes you have to slow down put things in place and then go do

that thing and for me 2022 was just that so that in 2023 I can have an entirely different experience

so today I want to tell you kind of the great stuff that happened to me in 2022 in reflection.

And kind of the worst.

And what's next? So I'm coming to you from Antalya Turkey.

Antalya was not a place I planned to be at this time of the year.

I was actually supposed to be in Pakistan, but life is what it is and Allah is the best

of planners. So I'm here and I thought I've never done a kind of year in review or kind of like

how things have gone and the entire time I've had mindful Islam that I can recall. So I thought

this might be a good time and kind of thinking of like what went well this year and what didn't go so well and there is a huge highway right over there and it's super loud but I thought

that would only lead to the super real feel of what I'm trying to share with you today which is

you know what has not gone well for me in 2022 and then like what that has me thinking and then kind of in 20 well then what has gone

well because there are things that have gone well. And then kind of in 2023, what's next? Because I think

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