Sunday Blog 165 – 29th December 2024 (I checked the date twice lol)
This in-between Christmas and New Year time is one of my favourites of the year. I love how quickly the days melt away. How I have to check my calendar more than once to verify which day I’m on. It’s a time to reflect on last year and then crack open the new year planner. Mmm. Stationery.
So first, to reflection. The pages of my 2024 planner reveal a mixed picture. Some weeks I filled out my week-to-a-page planner with appointments, goals and habit tracking. Sometimes I didn’t. Weeks at a time actually, and that’s a first for me. Plus, I also didn’t do the three, six and nine month check in with my 2024 goals. And it showed.
My major goal was to finish editing my memoir. While I’ve worked hard on it over 2024, the revision is MAJOR. So I’ve made strong progress, but I didn’t finish.
Aside from goals, reflecting on 2024 was a tearful exercise. January was when I had the melancholy task of project managing the sale of the family home of 65 years. It was a year I swapped out the certainty of being a health advocate (my day job for more than 25 years) for the nuance and confusion of being a carer. By August we lost our beautiful Mum at the grand age of 97.
So 2024 was always going to be a hit and miss year in terms of goals. It got me thinking beyond goals and habits to wisdoms to live my life by. A kind of key to all mythologies of how to live life. I started working on this but it turned into an unwieldy octopus of a blog. I’ll tackle that in 2025.
For now, I’ll post my 2025 vision board, done yesterday in a wonderful 2025 visioning workshop with my yoga teacher. It’s almost but not quite complete. There’s quite a lot of travel, starting with a February 2025 trip to Carmel-by-the-Sea in California to attend a writing retreat. I’ve had my eye on this for more than a decade. On Christmas day I got a text there’d been a cancellation and I didn’t have to think twice. The answer was yes.
What’s on your 2025 list? Hoping you’re enjoying this in between time.