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As the year of all years draws to a close, I'm wishing you and yours a meaningful holiday season and bright new year. No doubt, 2020 has been an adventure with challenges and changes, but I'm optimistic 2021 will provide a renewed sense of hope.
Typically, I don't make resolutions. Instead, I try to live my life each day, each month, with ways in which I can do better, be better. Not this year. This year, I'm leaving nothing to chance. Here are my top five goals:
- Be more present.
- Allowing myself the freedom to feel the feels.*
- Practicing more patience.
- Writing a fantastic book.
- Bake more cookies.
I've asterisked #2 as I recently went through the disappointment in losing a condo we loved. Yes, Bear and I are selling our beloved home of twenty years and taking the full-on empty-nest plunge. You can read the post on my Instagram which connects to my next point. The community outpouring blew me away. The advice and happy home stories really brightened my day. Being vulnerable is scary, but less so when you know you're not alone, that others have been through it and survived.
Which brings me to my final thought, a few words from Ted Lasso. This speech was made to Coach Lasso's soccer team after they lost the big game. “Now look, this is a sad moment right here, for all of us. And there ain't nothing I can say standing in front of you right now that can take that away. But please do me this favor will you? Lift your heads up and look around this locker room. Look at everyone else in here. And I want you to be grateful to be going through this sad moment with all these other folks. Because I promise you, there is something worse out there than being sad and that's being alone and sad. Ain't nobody in this room alone.”
Wherever this year took you and wherever you are at the moment, take comfort in those who were by your side. I know that I most grateful for sharing this tumultuous year with all of you.
