Happy new year!!! 🥳🥳🥳

I have stepped into 2025 a bit more upbeat and excited! I’ll be honest and say the past few years I have dreaded the beginnings of each year. In 2022 and 2023 both years started off with anxiety as my resolution and goal for each of those years was to have a baby (a very silly resolution in hindsight). And in 2024 I was completely exhausted by the trying to conceive journey having suffered a pregnancy loss in October 2023. And so I wasn’t hopeful and had no desire to think about what else I’d like out of the year.

2025 however is starting off on a different note; I am typing this on the 19th of January with my snoozing son in my left arm suckling at my left breast. Life is good. I also have the added benefit of skipping my works busy season this year. In any normal year I would be laying out my work uniform to eliminate any issues getting dressed in the morning and planning meals to avoid any decision fatigue which inevitably ends in eating takeout!

And so taking advantage of my good fortune and good mood, I have created a vision board for the first time in my life.

I’ve categorised my goals into the following categories:

• Motherhood
• Love
• Body
• Reading
• Creativity
• Work

Within these categories I have goals that are both tangible and measurable; for example do yoga at least twice a week and write a blog post at least three times a week. And those that are less rigid such as finding my groove as a mother and then later on as a working mother when I am back at work in October.

I will be sharing on this blog my progress with these goals as a way to keep myself accountable and also meet that blog three days a week quota 😉.

I am really excited for 2025 and hope you are too!

I hope we are all able to hold onto our resolutions and goals over the next 346 days!!!

Happy new year! Or as they say in South Africa, COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON 🥳🥳🥳