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How to Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself in 2024 Because You “Wasted” 2023

Five ideas to make this New Year your best one yet.

10 min readJan 8, 2024

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I’ll be honest:

2023 sucked for me.

The sad thing? I started off strong too.

Really strong.

I’ll explain, followed by what I’ll do differently this year in hopes that these ideas will help you too.

I finally found that “momentum” creators rave about.

You know, that special rhythm they preach about as though once you attain it, the world will open up for you.

Instead, I discovered just how fragile momentum is.

Creators don’t talk about this part as much.

I was so blinded by the “promises” of momentum that I failed to see the impending danger:

Burnout.

I experienced firsthand that burnout will uproot and crackle the very foundation your momentum stems from.

It ruined the rest of my year.

Or rather, I let it ruin the rest of my year.

Now it feels as though I have to spend 2024 atoning for all the bad decisions and laziness I carried…

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Ephraim Champion
Ephraim Champion

Written by Ephraim Champion

Storyteller & experience-creator via music or words. Igniting creativity on your artistic journey w/ practical tips & inspiration. True self-care starts here.

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