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Derive Lessons From the Past and Rocket Ship Into The Future

This is what I’m plucking away from 2024 to take into 2025

JoAnn Ryan
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8 min readJan 7, 2025

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My favorite place in Boston was surprisingly a simple coffee shop, where I could be both alone and with others at the same time — All photos by

Were you the kind of person you always wanted to be in 2024? I do hope so.

If not, well, you aren’t alone. No matter what we’ve achieved the feeling of falling short is pretty common and perhaps not exactly a bad thing really.

Use this feeling as jet fuel to make solid plans for the present in order to propel yourself into the future.

January is the ideal time to reflect and self-evaluate on what worked in the past and what didn’t. Make peace with it and move on. Every experience has something to teach — both the good and the bad. It’s learning and growth that is the true essence of life.

Looking back on the past year through photos helps me to do just that and it may help you too so feel free to read on and then make up your own list.

January — Freedom rings

The South Boston Waterfront was so eerily beautiful.

January was a month of delicious freedom. Freedom from a situation where I felt controlled and confined and…

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JoAnn Ryan
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A complete mess but always striving to do better. Writer, editor and publisher of stories about travel, photography and messy life.

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