by Hope
How will you end out the 12 months? Will you spend it celebrating all of the wins of the 12 months? Wallowing within the loss? Or are you already ahead dealing with? Prepared to go away 2024 previously and step into what’s to return?
For me, I’m slowing down this 12 months. Being very intentional about the place I permit my thoughts to linger.
Whereas I’ll by no means be capable to cease my thoughts from racing, from making lists, from trying far into the longer term and making an attempt to make plans. I can select totally different. And this 12 months, I’m selecting to decelerate this month.
Christmas is totally different this 12 months. I’ve made no plans, set no expectations, and plan to take the day because it comes.
Since I’ve returned from Texas, I’m taking every day because it comes. Making an attempt to take a seat on selections and evaluating all choices. Not speeding or being dominated by feelings. Nor worry.
The Final Few Years have been…
2023 was spent wading by way of grief and loss. It felt like I used to be tossed from disaster to loss after which again once more, over and over.
2024 has been spent making strides to regain my equilibrium and rolling round concepts for my future. And the transition to empty nester was full.
2025 goes to be the 12 months that I make selections about what this subsequent part of life might be. I have to be clever. And I need to not rush.
And that’s my focus for this final month of the 12 months. I’m going to be nonetheless. Be quiet. Be alone. And spend time in search of God’s will, figuring out what’s greatest and healthiest for me, and maybe, discovering a goal that I can flip my eye too. I really do want one thing exterior of my very own head to give attention to. However I’ve completely no thought what that’s to be.
My want for you these final two weeks – peace, pleasure, and a mild ending to the 12 months.
Hope is a resourceful and solutions-driven enterprise supervisor who has spent practically twenty years serving to purchasers streamline their operations and develop their companies by way of undertaking administration, digital advertising, and tech experience. Just lately transitioning from her position as a single mother of 5 foster/adoptive youngsters to an empty nester, Hope is navigating the emotional and sensible challenges of redefining her life whereas sustaining her willpower to regain monetary management and get rid of debt.
Dwelling in a comfy small city in northeast Georgia together with her three canine, Hope cherishes the serenity of the mountains over the bustle of the seashore. Although her youngsters at the moment are discovering their footing on the planet—pursuing schooling, careers, and independence—she stays deeply dedicated to supporting them on this subsequent chapter, at the same time as she faces the bittersweet tug of letting go.
Since becoming a member of the Running a blog Away Debt group in 2015, Hope has candidly shared her journey of economic ups and downs. Now, with a renewed focus and a transparent path forward, she’s able to sort out her funds with the identical ardour and perseverance that she’s dropped at her life and profession. By way of her writing, she continues to encourage others to confront their very own monetary challenges and attempt for a brighter future.
