My word for 2024: Sober ✨

If you could make one change that would improve every area of your life… would you do it?

I was lying in bed on Christmas night, thinking about the wild year that’s passed, and thinking ahead to the year to come.

Each New Year’s Day, Bryan, the kids, and I sit around the breakfast table and share our new year’s goals. I write them on whatever paper’s around and we pin them to a board in our kitchen. Flipping back through that stack, one pinned on top of the other, we can look back all the way to our goals in 2018. It’s cool to see how much we’ve grown year to year.

I thought of what mine would include this year:

• becoming my healthiest

• being my most creative / outside-the-box-thinking at work

• finding ways to be more fun and patient as a parent.

As I thought through the big and small habit changes I’d like to make to achieve those goals, one thought kept nibbling at the back of my mind.

Is this the year I go all in? The year I listen to my gut and finally decide to take the road less travelled in one small… maybe big… way.