Where did I go? 50 books, zero certainties, and a turning point I can feel coming — the kind you sense in a good book (🤞🏼)

I haven’t posted since 18 November. Not because I stopped.

Over the past few months I have:

• completed a Content Creator course with AI

• finished a course and internship in accounting and financial statements

• reached a goal I had set myself a long time ago: 50 books by the end of 2025

On 31 December, at 8:00 pm, I was still translating the 50th book of my 2025 reading list. It was The Defining Decade by Meg Jay. On 2 December a friend told me:“It doesn’t exist in Italian, right?”And I, with total recklessness: “I can translate it for you.”

Just after midnight I was done. I didn’t enjoy New Year’s Eve. But I learned something huge.

👉 One of my resolutions for 2026 is learning to say no. Or at least to set realistic goals. Out of self-respect.

Now there are two months left before my NASPI ends (NASPI is the Italian unemployment benefit). And, being completely honest, I still have no clear idea what I’ll do next. But I feel strongly that a turning point is just around the corner.

… Stay tuned.

In the meantime, goal for 2026:📚 another 50 books (roughly one a week).

The first one is already done: In It Together – The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All (a “ball-and-chain” book, for those who know what I mean, started at the end of summer 2025). First mission of 2026: remove it from “Currently reading” on Goodreads.✔️ Done.

I’m happier than it may seem.

But since I’m an overachiever, I’m currently reading three books at the same time:

1️⃣ Ikigai by Bettina Lemke→ not a book to rush: exercises, reflections, meditation.

2️⃣ Underworld by Graham Hancock→ 784 pages (1,372 in the format I have). A massive brick that I devour on every walk with the dog. I’m on page 580 and daydreaming: Sri Lanka (maybe May), India, and yes… even Hawaii (I wouldn’t book it now, but if someone gifted it to me, I’d live it to my last breath).

3️⃣ A book I chose to translate: Atomic Power with God through Fasting and Prayer

That crazy work in December did something beautiful to me: it reminded me that I love translating. I had stopped. Now I’ve started again. With The Defining Decade I’ve absorbed deep concepts, useful even at 30 (and no, the book says that 30 is not the new 20, unfortunately).

So.

Many new things coming.

Stay tuned.