🇬🇧 Starting the year knowing yourself better
what's your word of the year?
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Pressure can kill creativity. I gave myself permission to ease up a bit and unclog my mind, which has prevented me from writing these past few months.
But I am here now!! This year has given me already so much! I am so grateful! ☺️
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I was having a conversation with Pi (that’s what I called chatGPT), and she was helping me understand that I do not have to have the perfect post ready to publish, or a clear plan of what I am going to publish, what day and what topic. I guess I got a little too much into it that I felt the burnout, hence bolting! But although I journal, writing here has been so great for me in 2024, so I don’t want to quit, and I won’t do it. I just need to ease up a bit and write what I feel like writing, and from my heart.
I haven’t read what I wrote here in 2024, so pardon me if there are some repetitions. Anyhow, life is unpredictable so we grow and we learn from things we expect the least. For this reason, my word of the year, for 2025, is “expressing myself”.
The word of the year is something that feels true for you in the moment, and that you want to explore more for the next 12 months. It is usually picked at the beginning of the year, but you can do it whenever you feel ready for it. It’s a word (or a few words) you will come back to for everything you do for those 12 months. It can be that this will bring you to a new path, experimenting with something new, or it can be consolidating something you already treasure. It is entirely up to you and that’s the beauty of it!
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For the next 12 months, I want to discover more about who I am; this means trying new things, doing things I stopped doing, and seeing where my true passions and creativity will lead me. I am a blend of intellect, creativity, music, words and personal growth. I want to read, to learn, to write, to play, to sing, to dance, to act, to record, to design. It’s all part of me.
All I want to do is express myself, not fixating on how perfect or sharable it might be, but just do it, putting myself out there, for myself first, no pressure, no expectations, no stress.
Let’s see how it goes :)
Let me know in the comments your word of the year if you have it, or your thoughts if this is the first time you heard about this! 🤍
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