One of the most frustrating things to me as a human is when a friend, colleague, vendor, whoever continues to push me off because they know they missed the mark and they don’t want to have the hard conversation.
AND YET THIS IS ME, RIGHT NOW, with y’all and with myself on this blog.
I haven’t FGFed since 2023. And normally, I do what all bloggers do with end of the year recaps and travel and workouts and blah blah but this year, that just wasn’t in the cards. I didn’t take time off over the holidays and instead got two high profile projects to execute on in under a month (and I did execute, pats self on back since pretty much on one else did but that’s a separate issue).
Part of the reason I did this is to buy equity for the amount of time I want to take off for our impending wedding in March, and part of the reason is usually I get to step back and do strategic planning during the lull of everyone else being out of office. I didn’t this year. It feels like I’m just hamstering on the wheel until March.
None of this is an excuse, and this is exactly why I never wanted to monetize this blog: I want this blog to be a joy for me, a place of happiness and sharing. So, when it feels like a burden, I just don’t and didn’t do it.
Which I know as a blogger, “creator”, writer, isn’t the right move. It’s frustrating for me to be on the other side (of myself!), “ignoring the problem” and avoiding the hard conversation.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying, we’re all changing and evolving, only my besties read this anymore—hi I love you—and let’s take grace, evolution and peace into (the rest of!) 2024. One of my favorite bloggers said it best: rather than a new start, this year, January is a buffer month, to let us process, and give us space to decide how to keep moving forward. So my recaps, and word of the year, and deepest thoughts and feelings will be coming in February … maybe.