Happy New Year! A new year has begun and it is time for me to pick a new focus word for this year. I chose the word Wellness! Last year at this time I was still in the hospital fighting an infection in my right leg that started from a wound I got. They still didn’t know what caused the wound, but they were giving me a ton of antibiotics for it. I felt terrible and bloated and all sorts of emotional stuff was piling on me. I was exhausted. 2023 and now I am home, safe, content, and ready to get back to me.
As I am typing this I am sitting on my bed on a Saturday night with Nicholas at my feet with my electric blanket on, because dang it is cold. Nicholas and I both are content. I usually post my new focus word on January 1st, but I procrastinated. I needed time to truly think about what wellness means to me and what I actually hoped to succeed at this year.
Wellness to me means being strong, flexible, loved, and able to live as well as possible with my body and everyone in my life. That is what my aim for 2024 will be.
I listened to the Mel Robbins podcast on Youtube and she had these questions that she asks at the end and beginning of the year. I decided to answer them in my journal to dive into what my pursuit of 2024 will be. Mel gave us six questions to answer, I am going to share the answers to the last three questions for this post.
- What am I going to stop doing in 2024?
- Stop comparing myself to others. I have a nasty habit of comparing myself to others. I see all their accomplishments, beautiful pictures, and happiness and I get jealous of it. Yes, Jamie Holloway gets jealous of others. I’m sick, weak, and not capable of doing a lot of the things I see others doing. This makes me sad.
- Stop limiting myself and my abilities. I limit myself all the time thinking I can’t do that because I am disabled. I focus on all the things I can’t do. I do not look at what I am able to do.
- Stop procrastinating on writing my book, blog posts, and articles. Yes, I procrastinate a lot. Although, 2023 my main focus was healing and recuperating from sepsis.
2) What am I continuing doing in 2024?
- Keep losing weight until I reach my goal of 175 pounds. I’m only 32 pounds from that goal.
- Cooking meals full of nutrition instead of junk meals. This means, no more meals that consist of just popcorn. Actually cook a meal, not just snacks.
- Still do focus words instead of a huge list of goals.
- Still contacting and hanging out with friends and family. I love my tribe. I adore them.
- Still going to medical appointments.
- Still healing my wound on my legs
- Still reading great books
- Still journaling.
- Still Diffusing my essential oils.
- Still listen to podcasts that inspire and help me with my life goals.
- Still making sleep a priority.
- Still drinking prune juice.
3) What I am going to start doing in 2024:
- Cook actual meals and not just snacks.
- Eat more fiber rich foods.
- Research healthy recipes for meal ideas.
- Meal prep more.
- Eat 100 grams of protein a day.
- Start working on my strength, balance, and strength by movements that I can find on youtube and physical therapy.
- Get my ID renewed.
- Write 12 articles for Wellness Works NW.
- Encourage Summer and Karen about meetings for the business.
- Decluttering my apartment. Discarding things that no longer bring me joy or that I do not need medically.
- Ask key people in my life if they want to video chat with me regularly.
- Get back to skin care of my face and body.
- Plan and go to my fiftieth birthday trip with those I love.
- Find a chiropractor, a masseuse, and acupuncturist.
Although, the start of this year is a challenge with me getting a temporary catheter put in, I am not losing any hope in being able to pursue wellness. I’m grateful. I am grateful to be alive and kicking. I am more determined than ever to kick butt and go for things that I never thought I could. I have fears. I have doubts. I am doing them anyway.
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