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I lost my phone today. An inconvenience, of course. Phones are an expensive little tether to the world, to the social internet, to the people in your life. I run my work off my phone, and I spend more time staring at that little rectangle than anything else. I wouldn’t consider myself to have a level of phone addiction, but the level of tether to it is unmistakeable. But phones can represent so many things, and this represented loss.
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It’s April of 2024, and I’ve been working 10-20 hours every weekend for the better part of the last 13 month. This is on top of my day job.
After all, I’m trying to out run my emotions by drowning them out in being exhausted from working. I’m trying, desperately, to claw my way out of the hole I’ve been left in. And I’m exhausted.
I get a text Saturday night. I happen to have a rare Sunday off.
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For me, picking a theme for the year sets the tone for how the year will go. I have, over the last 8 years or so, picked many themes, from “move” to “grace” to “survive.”
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It’s that time of year where I make a bunch of resolutions and hope that I keep to some of them. The year this was most successful was 2021, when I set out to get married and buy a condo, and managed to acheive both. This year, my life looks a little different, but nevertheless, cultivating a list of 25 things to do in 2025 gives me a sense of acheivement to look back on.
This idea, as always, is cribbed from the one and only Gretchen Rubin, whose insights provide such value to my life. If you haven’t already, my recommendation for the start of each year is to read her first book on happiness, The Happiness Project, which provides incredible insight into building a life that you are satisfied with.
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