by Hope
Whoo, boy. I don’t even need to do a recap of 2023. A lot loss. A lot heartache. And so many struggles.
In order that’s it, that’s all I’m going to say about 2023. We’re now not wanting again. Simply wanting ahead.
I really feel assured that 2024 goes to carry a lot change, a lot development, and a lot pleasure!
Prior to now, I’ve made lists upon lists of issues that I’m going to perform within the coming 12 months. That’s not taking place for 2024. If something the previous years have taught me simply how true the outdated adage of “We plan and God laughs” is.
So as a substitute I’ve just a few “not going to occur” gadgets. After which one massive mindset aim…
Not Going to Occur
- I’m not going to neglect my bodily well being.
- I’m not going to let others disrupt my peace.
- I’m not going to tackle any further debt!
I understand that specialists would say to state my targets as a optimistic, however that has by no means labored for me prior to now. I’m attempting one thing new. These are issues I cannot tolerate and won’t let occur this coming 12 months.
My Mindset
- Be able to say “Sure” to no matter alternatives are given me.
As I beforehand talked about, I’ve been in purge mode for fairly some time now. And sorting by way of my stacks and stacks of ebook has been an enormous one. I’ve sorted them by class, precedence to learn, and so on. And this ebook gave me the motivation for this coming 12 months’s mindset.
It’s not the one one, however the title simply speaks to me in so some ways. I learn this ebook a number of years in the past and have been skimming by way of the passages I underlined and highlighted over the previous couple of days.
Modifications Coming in January
Listed below are some issues I’m particularly wanting ahead to in January.
- Hopefully, I’ll get a begin date for my new half time job as a catering coordinator for an area quick meals restaurant.
- With tax season upon us, I anticipate with the ability to decide up some further hours at my present half time with the accountant.
- I’m wrapping up my HUGE venture, transforming the tech stack for an area vineyard and launching their new web site subsequent week. That cost will push me into February so far as having payments lined.
- With all of the completely different work fronts I’ve going, being very intentional about my someday off per week (Sundays) goes to be essential to maintain me mentally and bodily wholesome. Planning for that now.
- Friendship! A pal from method again that I reconnected with at my highschool reunion goes to city for his birthday weekend. It is going to be a blast to hang around and reconnect with him. (And he is aware of I’m broke so this won’t be a spending occasion, only a time spent encounter.)
I hope you could have a beautiful and protected New Years! I might be snuggled up with a stack of library books and my canine…studying within the New Yr and undoubtedly asleep earlier than the clock strikes midnight.
Right here’s to probably the most wonderful coming 12 months that we can’t even think about! A 12 months of YES for me!

Hope is a digital advertising and marketing supervisor and foster/adoptive single mother to 5 youngsters. She has run her personal consulting firm for over 15 years and took a leap of religion returning to the company world in 2021 to a job and group she loves! Hope started sharing her journey with the BAD neighborhood within the Spring of 2015 and appears like she has lastly mastered the steadiness between household first and clever monetary selections.