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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

Thank you for being here again.

I hope everyone had a very happy Thanksgiving.

We are now in December, closing out 2025, which is kind of wild that it's almost over.

2025 has felt like a decade and a month in the same exact time. One of the best parts of December that everyone enjoys is that Spotify and Apple, they get their annual streaming numbers and you find out who your number one artist or band was that you listen to the most, what was your number one song of the year. But you also get to find out which is your number one podcast of the year.

And if it's not a numbers game

with Ryan Gurdowski,

if that's not in your top five, I hope that you like and subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube, or the IHeart Radio app. So that way next year, I might be in your top five. Think about it. I would appreciate it. Your Christmas gift to me would be subscribing if you haven't yet.

As this year's coming to a close, I've been thinking a lot about... I would appreciate. Your Christmas gift to me would be subscribing if you haven't yet.

As this year's coming to a close, I've been thinking a lot about relationships.

One on many different levels.

My relationship with family, money, God, friends, work, having a work-life balance.

I think that it's very important to be reflective at this point of the year.

And saying to myself, how am I doing,

making sure I can be the most of a person I am with the time that I have, get the most of life and achieve the most that I have. I am at, you know, the beginning stages of middle

age and I only have a certain amount of time to do everything I want to do. And I hear,

I've talked to therapists about this. I know this is not do. And I hear, I've talked to a therapist about this.

I know this is not normal, but I hear the clock ticking of every moment in my life of what do I

have left and what can I possibly do. I'm insanely meticulous, but not wasting time. And it is how

I've been able to have a podcast and a pack and a political work and a nonprofit and all the rest of it. So at the very beginning of the year, what I always do is I make a list of 10 to 15 goals that I want to achieve this year. I write them down on my day planner that I carry with me everywhere. And then I don't look at it for the entire year. And at the end of the year, I look back and say, what did I achieve of this?

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