Welcome to 2025, friends! It was here before we knew it! You know it’s a crazy year when you forget to put up your Christmas tree. Confession time: that was me! Yikes! Did the end of the year sneak up on anyone else?
As 2024 has come to a close, it has reminded me that New Year’s Eve has always been one of my favorite holidays.
It’s a sentimental time of winding down celebrations from the holidays and getting together to share in anticipation of what the new year will bring! I’m sharing what I’m looking forward to this year, and it may not be what you initially thought of being excited about in the new year.
There’s a beautiful poem called “Joy Comes Back” by Donna Ashworth. What caught my eye as I started to think about 2025 was the very first line:
“When you finally realize that joy
is less fireworks
more firefly
less orchestra
more birdsong
she will come back much more often”
I highly recommend reading the rest of this poem. Ashworth shares how joy is found by constantly looking for it in your day-to-day, not just the “big events.” Maybe your 2024 felt like a blur too! Our calendars can easily get taken over by friends, family, work, organizations, volunteering, etc. Then, to relax, many of us find ourselves scrolling on Instagram or TikTok or Facebook only to be barraged with everyone’s highlight reels. None of those things are bad necessarily; how do we take time to be intentional with our days and not let them scroll right past us?
This year, I’d like to propose a different kind of goal for us millennials and other fellow readers.
We spend so much time thinking of goals pertaining to our physical health, business, and wealth. What about a goal for simple joys in life? A goal is to invite friends to join you on your mundane outings like shopping for groceries or a goal to create a wind-down routine before bedtime. My 2025 resolution is to create space for those small daily glimmers of joy and not breeze past them. Invite others to join you along the way!
Share the “I got to enjoy coffee on the patio this morning” picture, or ask a friend if they want to come to yoga class with you. The possibilities are endless. I hope your year is bright and full of glimmers of joy that comes back again and again.
January 2025
