If I could describe 2024 in a word, it would be consistency. This is one of the key habits I wanted to develop in 2024. It took me the first six months of the year to put it into practice, but starting in July, I wrote one blog post per week for the rest of the year. I also added a second post per week in October and continued that as well. Consistency has always been a challenge for me with blogging so it is a good habit to develop as a writer.
I started this blog in 2016 as a place to vent, and I spent the next several years just writing about all different kinds of topics. However, I was so inconsistent with my posts that even I would forget for months at a time that I even had a blog. In February, I decided to remove all the posts that had nothing to do with changing careers, and it stung a bit to push some of my creativity to the background. (Read my post about it here: It Hurt a Bit.) It had to be done though so I could focus on my current subject matter. In the process, I developed new ideas that will carry me far into 2025 with material, and I’m starting to view what I do differently – but a good kind of different.
This year has been all about learning and being unafraid to share that knowledge even if it makes me look naïve, silly, or even ignorant. If I’m willing to show people what I’m doing, they might feel better about their own process of changing jobs or careers, trying something new, or just reframing how they see their current job. It’s important to see failure as a way to learn instead of always viewing it as a mistake or negative in your life. Failure is just part of the process.
I’ve spent the holiday season with family and friends, and now my mind is turning toward ideas for 2025. After my brain has had a nice long rest, I’m ready to create again, and I find that to be a refreshing feeling. Instead of dreading the coming year, I’m excited about new ideas, learning, and all the possibilities a new year brings.
I encourage you to look back at the previous year with positivity. Yes, there will be difficult things in hindsight, but ask yourself if you learned anything new from those difficulties. When you failed, what did you learn? How have your failures made you better and stronger? What did you learn from your successes? Did you sit back and rest on your laurels, or did you continue to move forward? Enter 2025 reminding yourself that you will continue to grow whether you succeed or fail because you will learn something in the process.
I hope and pray a peaceful and expansive New Year for you!
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Inspirational Verse for the Day:
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand. (Psalm 37:23-24, NKJV)
All Things Subject to Change 