Year 2024 was one for the books! It was a wonderful year- truly. We took a large leap of faith in my career and prevailed. We stuck through therapy and continued to work on strengthening ourselves as parents, as partners, and above all else, as individuals. We welcomed the last piece of our family and have been killing it juggling four tiny humans together. When I look back on 2024, I truly could not have asked for a better year.
Of course, stressors happened, tears flowed, and lessons were learned. We’re adapting this year to fix the challenges we faced last year and continuing to move forward with nothing but hope and happiness. Still, there are a few things I am choosing to leave behind in 2024 and new steps I am going to take in 2025. Let’s dive in!
2025 Out’s
Everything that EVERYONE should be leaving behind this year:
- Jealousy
- Holding grudges
- Avoiding difficult conversations
- Comparison
- Defensiveness
- Taking things personally
- Finding excuses
- Negative self talk
- Using “but…” during an apology
- Overworking
- Staying in spaces out of comfort and familiarity
None of these things are benefiting us anymore. It’s time to let them go. It’s time to have the hard conversations, take accountability, learn from our mistakes, quit finding an excuse out of things, cheer others on, slow the work game down, and it’s time to step out of our comfort zones. Enough being small. Enough of staying where we are. Start pushing yourself to be better than the day before.
2025 In’s
Everything that is going to BE US this year:
- Accepting what is and releasing what is not in our control
- Leaving people where they are (some people are not ready to grow– it’s not your job to water them)
- Giving energy to mutually reciprocated relationships
- Taking accountability for ourselves
- No self doubt
- Therapy
- Communicating in spaces our words are valued (stop wasting your energy elsewhere)
- Investing
- Forgiveness
- Taking care of our physical health
- Stop trying to mend broken relationships
- Saying no- without a reason
Reflecting Back on 2024’s In’s and Out’s
Each year, I find myself making an “In’s and Out’s” list for the year. I write them down and hang them up in a place I see each day (usually inside my closet). They are motivating to me. Generally, my Out’s are issues that I personally struggled with throughout the year before or that impacted me in some way. Whether I was met with those tensions or I felt them myself, they are things I want to leave behind for the coming year.
Looking back on last year’s In’s and Out’s, some of my biggest “In’s” were:
- Holding no guilt
- Setting strong boundaries for my internal peace
- Choosing happiness every day
- Focusing on myself
- Pursuing my dreams
- Pushing through anxieties and fears head on
- Staying close to people that genuinely support and respect me
And I truly feel like I accomplished each and every one of those in some way this past year. Reading them every day, reminding myself of them- they really became a permanent mindset change for me. I set many boundaries in this past year, many that were not easy to make. But they brought a lot of peace to my life. After 2022/2023 being some of the most challenging years of life thus far, choosing happiness was a big shift in my day to day. I’d say 95% of my days, I am genuinely happy. I choose to be. I look for the things that make me happy. I’ve worked through anxieties and fears immensely. I could go on and on.
Ultimately, writing down what you want to leave behind and what you want to carry forward is such an easy self reflection tool. Hanging it up in a space you see every single day is even easier. But having it to look back on the next year and feeling the change within yourself is so incredibly rewarding. Try it out! Challenge yourself! Tell me, what are some of your in’s and out’s for the year?
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