It has been some time since I’ve sat down and put my thoughts to paper, well screen, in the form of a blog. To be honest, it’s been 270 days. I wish I had some great explanation as to why I haven’t been writing. Why I wrote two blogs within two days of each other, submitted one to Teach Better, Time for an Upgrade, and then just sat on the other. The only reasoning I can muster up as to why I haven’t been doing one of my favorite forms of self-care is because I just haven’t been disciplined. Like with any habit, good or bad, the less it is practiced the less it becomes a staple of our lives. That is going to be my goal for 2025: building habits through discipline as to what brings me joy, peace, happiness, and a clear mind. 2025 is going to not only be the year that I get back to being me, but transforming into a new me, the me that I know I can, and should have been, all this time.
Now I know what you’re thinking, I sound like every hopeful individual setting lofty goals for the New Year. I don’t disagree, I do. And you’re thinking, I probably make goals like this this time of year EVERY year, and if they stuck, I wouldn’t be setting the same, or similar goals, every year. And again, you’re correct. But the difference this time, this year, is my mindset. I’m fed up with not doing what makes me happy. I’m exhausted with feeling exhausted, pretending to take care of myself when it’s not even coming close to 70% of the time. I’m done with not living up to my potential and setting a better example for my kids. I’m done with the old Mike, the Mike that has spent the past 44 years half-assing his way through life, getting lucky with giving nearly 70% and reaching some goals. It’s time to be 1% better every day. The boring, disciplined habits, day in and day out, are what are going to lead to goals not only being met, but crushed!
As you can probably figure out from context clues, one of these goals is to get back to blogging. Blogging has always been something I loved, a way to express myself and get my thoughts, feelings, and heart out there. Whether it has to do with topics in education, family issues, running, or just life in general, blogging has always provided me comfort and has been a drug to clear my mind. Like I said earlier, it’s time to not only find myself again, but to sculpt the new and improved me. I appreciate your support and helping to keep me accountable on this journey.
I stopped setting resolutions years ago. I had adopted the “One Word” approach for a few years and then a mantra, where one would find a few words out of a word search-like picture, and those words became the ones to live the year by. You can read or listen to my previous words below.
2019 - BELIEVE
2020 - WATER
2021 - PRISM
2023 - MANTRA (blog)
2023 - MANTRA (podcast)
This year the four words that I found first were, STRENGTH, MONEY, ALIGNMENT, MIRACLES. I was pretty pleased with these words and felt that they suited myself, and my goals, perfectly. So what I’ve decided to do is create four separate blogs, each blog focusing on one of these words. This will be me diving back into the world of blogging, something that I can already feel a weight being lifted off of my shoulders and a fog clearing in my mind as I write this one!
To wrap this one up, our intro, I mentioned before that while this looks and sounds like so many others who dive into the New Year with a candle burning bright, only to have it fizzle out a few weeks later, this isn’t a New Year thing. It just happens to be that time of year. Instead, this is a “it’s been long overdue to make a change to reach your full potential” thing. Hence why we’re starting today, Monday, December 30, 2024.
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