Hope you had a wonderful NYE and already making the best of 2024! I love that every NYE feels nostalgic and yet new for us all in the same.
There's always so much appreciation for what the previous year brought into our lives and what we have to look forward to in the new year. As I've gotten older I've even realized that setting small goals for myself and ambitions are better than setting resolutions which seems like such a tedious and large task.
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Every year, comes with its challenges and also all the good things that you're blessed with throughout the year so it goes without saying that every year is a blessing. I've learned to appreciate the good and bad and small achievements. Not every year looks the same but the end goal is the same and it's always to simply be proud of what I was capable of doing for myself, our family and our home.
Although nothing beats the memories we make.
I didn't give myself a word or word duo for 2023 because it was our first year living in a different state and I didn't want to feel the pressure of what the year needed to look like, simply wanted to go with the flow and so we did.
Although as the year progressed I knew that I wanted to focus on the WHY we moved out of California and the toxicity and negativity I wanted to let go of while living there. Don't get me wrong that's my home state and there's definitely a lot of good but as we grew older California definitely started looking and feeling differently. We miss our real friends and some of our closest family but we're definitely happy to be living on our own terms now and away from unreal expectations.
And now that life looks a lot different and even feels different, it only felt right to give myself something to look forward to in 2024. My word duo for 2024 is FLOURISH and FUN!
I want to see myself grow and thrive in 2024 and have fun while doing it. My husband and I agreed that we're at a point in our lives where it's time to be selfish and start living our best lives for our own benefit and no one else's. Because that's how it should be. Living life on our own terms. We love Utah and we want to explore it now that we're finally settled in and though we have much to do in updating our home we don't want to let that stop us from focusing on the beauty surrounding us.
I feel like these two words are going to give me the motivation and remind me of how we can continue to live for our personal happiness and wellbeing, individually, as a married couple and family. BUT that brings me to noting that though we want to explore and focus on our own personal wellbeing that we also want to focus on spending less on unnecessary essentials and be more mindful of how we spend and get creative when it comes to gift giving, date nights and celebrations and travel.
So all that being said, flourishing and having fun in 2024 is what I'm looking forward to and hopefully this inspires you to do so too. Thanks for reading today's post 'Happy New Year from SJL + My WOTY Duo' hope you enjoyed it.
Have you giving yourself a word or word duo or trio for 2024 yet? Let me know in the comments section below.
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