NEW YEARS DAY 2025 is HERE

Are you a New Years Eve or a New Years Day type of person? I consider myself both, BUT I'm definitely enjoy New Years Day more. I like to stay in or go out New Years Eve. I'm happy either way but I definitely come home before midnight if I do go out or right after. I don't like staying out late. New Years Day on the other hand, I always love to go to brunch. It feels so nice to have a day off, a new year, get together with your partner or a friend/s and have brunch. I get very excited for the brunch on New Years Day. Something about starting your year off with a nice brunch, which is my favorite activity, just feels so positive and relaxing. It doesn't hurt that I'm a big fan of day drinking too.

New Year's carries a unique blend of emotions; anticipation, reflection, and sometimes, uncertainty. I can see some people feel a little anxious or depressed New Years Eve but come morning, they feel better and alive again. It's not merely a transition from December 31st to January 1st but a symbolic shift, a mental shift with the hope for new beginnings. The days leading up to New Years, tends to evoke a sense of relief for some, as they shake off the weight of the past year, while for others, it can amplify feelings of dissatisfaction or pressure, especially if you don't have a group of friends or a partner.

I like to think of New Years as a symbolize for a clean mind set, offering a chance to change your perspective on how you see certain aspects of yourself or your life and let go of the ideas that do not serve you. This sense of renewal can be liberating but also daunting, as it forces one to confront the gap between idealized goals and real life complexities. There's a subtle tension in the air between ideas of how to transform and if you can actually get behind the notion and put steps towards those goals.

I prefer people didn't put stress on themselves and work on allowing New Years to always be just another day that will pass. If you're in the mood to reinvent, do it, if you're not that's ok too there's always another New Years on the horizon. Once you take away the mental stress of it all, you may feel inclined to take some positive steps towards small changes or goals.

I saw someone post an idea to get a jar and some post it notes or pieces of paper and write down each week a nice event, outing, feeling or thought that occurred. You place it in the jar and at the end of the year you read them. I think this is such a great way to reflect on that year in a positive light. Of course, you'd have to put a calendar notice in your phone to pop up and remind you to do this so you can be consistent. Maybe set it up for every Sunday to reflect on the week that just passed until you're doing it without the reminders. If you don't want to deal with the physical jar and notes, you can always use your phone notes app and type it in there or an app like Notion and make your journal entries there.

I personally do not engage with 'New Years Resolutions' as I find them to never stick but I do like a plan to try something new and see how it works out, if I like it or can tweak it to fit my life.

For instance, if you're married and want to separate or single and want to find a partner; you shouldn't put a strict timeline on it. You should make a plan to better your effort and work on issues to get to your goal but life has a way of happening to us for our greatest good and it may not be in the timeline you create for a New Years Resolution.

Trust in your gut, keep yourself active and healthy, engaged in your passions, stay connected to your source and that's a plan to keep you on track for the New Year.

Happy New Year!

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