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How I’m Making 2025 Lighter and Brighter
(Hi Medium, I’m back!)
2024 was a tough year. I struggled to write. I fell off the journaling train and only journaled sporadically. I wasn’t inspired. I didn’t have any stories to tell or anything to say.
In the past year, I had become less confident and I was a shriveled, retreated shell of myself a couple of years ago.
I don’t regret the year I had, but at the same time, I know that things needed to change this year.
Setting new year intentions and themes is nothing novel, but I wanted to share mine in case any of these resonates.
This year, I will —
1. Reconnect with things that bring joy
In 2024, I lost the excitement I had for life.
I used to feel so alive working on my mental health startup, MindTerra, but that came to a natural end in 2022. I used to get so excited writing on here and connecting with people through comments, but I stopped writing. I used to be so motivated to learn French during the pandemic, and now I rarely talk to my language exchange partners.
Of course, interests can change, but for me, it’s about reconnecting with things that bring that spark and excitement.