I’ve been reviewing 2025 for two weeks and honestly I just need to move ON!
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What Up?
For the past two weeks I’ve been house sitting for a couple of friends who went to London for the holidays. Their home is in a rural area of northern Florida, and while it’s not too remote (there is a Publix just a few miles away, thank goodness!), it feels like it at night without the usual light and sound pollution I’m used to in Tallahassee. That was definitely an adjustment!
I often do a year-end “retreat” where I pull back from engagement across all channels, including IRL, to meditate and rest and do some self reflection. Since I was going to be here anyway, I decided my retreat would be in the woods this year! I have to admit I did not quite get in as much meditation and yoga as I planned, but I took a lot of naps and sat around drinking coffee in the morning on the porch, watching the woods come alive as the sun rose. Win/Win!
Here is a bit of old Florida I captured on a walk down one of the dirt backroads around here. Yes, this is what December is like for us, although it was a frigid 55°F!!!!
What Now?
As I discussed in my previous post, Scary Questions and Big Plans, I’ve been wrestling with and juggling a lot of ideas for 2026. The planning continues, big and small, although my goal is very simple: financial stability. I know, I know, “simple but not easy.”
My friend and I have been working on a “Creative Compass” worksheet she came up with (I hope to convince her to share it with y’all!) and the hardest part for me was, ironically, the quarterly planning. As a former project manager it is so ironic that when it comes to my own plans, I tend to overload unrealistically.
There is just SO MUCH I want to do!
But I need firmer foundations in place. So, I’m working on that.
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