01/01/2024
Maybe 2023 wasn’t your year.
Maybe you never lost that last fifteen pounds.
Maybe you never paid off that credit card debt.
Maybe you never took control of your health issues.
Maybe you never got out of that terrible relationship.
Maybe you never got that dream job you were going for.
Maybe you never organized your linen closet. or your life.
Maybe you never broke a sweat daily. opened a book daily. drank enough water daily. watched your spending daily. or consumed a green smoothie daily.
Maybe 2023 will not go down as the year that will be remembered forever for all of the good reasons. Maybe there is no list of accomplishments, shelf of trophies, or fancy banners being waved your way as you exit this year, and walk into the next.
But maybe, just maybe,
You can give yourself a moment of grace.
Maybe, just maybe,
You can pat yourself on the back, look yourself in the mirror, and tell yourself you made it.
Maybe, just maybe,
You can recognize that if you have accomplished nothing more than living three hundred and sixty five days this year,
That’s okay. Actually, that’s completely okay.
Because accomplishing these last three hundred and sixty five days is a honour (and a feat) in itself.
So kudos to you. I mean that.
I am clapping - And cheering.
For you have accomplished something so big that so many who are watching us from the box seats in the house could only wish they have.
you are living.
you are walking.
you are breathing.
you are talking.
And the fact that you have made it this far (both in this year and in reading this post), well, that tells me a lot about you.
that you are resilient.
that you are motivated.
that you are determined.
(that you don’t mind reading longwinded rambles)
So while those few extra pounds may be still hanging on, and while that dream job of yours may still feel far off -
You are here. Right here.
At the end of 2023.
About to go into a brand new year.
With a whole new opportunity to live a whole new three hundred and sixty five days.
So say goodbye to a year that you have conquered.
Maybe not in the ways that you had hoped so.
Yet in all of the ways that you were meant to.
And remember this moment.
This moment right here.
On the last day of December,
Two thousand and twenty three.
And allow that to propel you towards two thousand and twenty four.
Think about how you want to feel going into next year,
And start doing the things that will help you get there.
For it’s never too late for a new beginning, a refresh, or a restart.
Or stay just as you are, my friend,
Cause that’s pretty awesome, too.
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