HELLO 2022

I love these posts about my intention every year. I’m coming in a couple of days late with this one– I usually queue it up right for New Year’s Day. But honestly? I think it’s an appropriate representation of where I am in life right now. I used to drive myself absolutely insane by getting a blog post scheduled for midnight every single day. Realistically, it’s not always going to be possible anymore. And that’s okay! Sure, it’s the goal, but I’m learning to let go of the reins a little bit. Or, well, if not “let go,” at least I’ve loosened my grip a bit. My priorities have shifted and I’m putting my energy where it needs to go.

One thing this new life chapter is forcing me to do is really to try to tackle my perfectionism. Just when I think I’ve gotten better about it, it finds me again and sinks its teeth in a little bit deeper. Unfortunately, my job doesn’t exactly help the situation. But I’m working on it– and that’s where my intention for 2022 comes in.

Last year I set the intention of taking things one day at a time. I’m not always successful with my year-long intentions, but I think I did a pretty good job of this one. Mostly out of necessity. It was a LONG year and while it was incredible, it was filled with many, many difficult moments. It’s easy to look back on the highlight reel of my 2021 and think, “wow! it was a perfect year!” And don’t get me wrong, I’d say it was the best year of my life (I mean, a baby! a book!). But it was also one of the hardest I’ve gone through. I chugged through difficult relationships with people, suffered through feeling very sick through 90% of my pregnancy, struggled to write a book, found myself brimming with anxiety during a long, snowy winter filled with political unrest. Taking things one day at a time was just what I needed to do in order to get to the other side. I celebrated the good days and I reminded myself that I just needed to focus on getting to bedtime on rough days. It was a good reminder that everything is fleeting, both the good and the bad.

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MY INTENTION FOR 2022:

FIND THE BEAUTIFUL IN THE EVERYDAY.

It’s pretty simple and can be applied in different ways, which I like. Honestly I just want to appreciate the beautiful everyday moments of life. I’ve been putting so much pressure on myself to make things feel and look perfect– and then when they inevitably don’t, I feel like an utter failure. My hope is that this helps me refocus my energy on seeking out beautiful moments that are definitely already there versus trying to manufacture “perfect” ones.