I don’t know about you, but for me, 2023 was a year of dodging the punches. It was a year of endurance and sticking to my foundations. It was a year of relearning and learning.
Today, as we close this chapter, I want to share some of the things that I’ve learned.
This year…
I learned to stop overcompensating in order to make people feel comfortable in their inconsistencies, in their lack of progress, in their unwillingness to change.
I can only help people, but I can’t do their part for them.
I learned there’s beauty in allowing people to think the wrong thing about you. As long as you are doing right, those people are simply showing what type of people you need to keep out of your life.
I can only do right, I can’t make anyone else do right by me.
I learned that it’s not the bad times that destroy relationships, but how and what is communicated and isn’t communicated that does the most damage.
Suppressed and unexpressed feelings often find a way out one way or the other.
I learned to trust myself beyond the doubts and that doubting myself is part of the process itself.
Doubt is just a roadblock, not a sign that you’re going the wrong way.
I learned to express what hurts without any expectations.
Whether someone acts on what I’m asking for or not, it’s on them. What’s on me is communicating and setting boundaries.
