5 Good Things: Small Goals for 2025
THE GREAT WALL
In the new year, I feel like in order to achieve exponential growth in all areas of my life, I’m going to put up walls. The healthy kind that’s 1/2 personal boundaries and 1/2 the little voice inside your brain repeating “you gotta be more adventurous this time around.” The wall I’m referring to is one where anything from my past life, has no business entering this new life. No more repeat offenders, that goes for people that irked me, wronged me, even negative thoughts whether fearful or insecure, I’ll be shutting all of those down. When I come across a situation that’s frustrating or hurtful, I’ll stop, take a few seconds to ask myself, is what I’m feeling right now how I felt last year? If the answer is yes, then up goes the wall. I don’t know if this is even psychologically healthy, but when the world drives you mad, wouldn’t it be safer to put some blinders on and get on with life.
POST IT
I’m going to leave post-it notes in random places. The bodega and public bathroom mirrors have been a favorite of mine. Quick love notes to a stranger, hopefully that stranger will pass it on to another stranger. There was a summer when this was all I did, and I can’t remember why I stopped.
