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2025 is here! What are you going to do with it?
What are your writing plans for the new year?
This week's Action/Adventure Newsletter is all about endless opportunity.
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Happy New Year! Isn’t it nice to have a fresh set of days, weeks and months ahead of us? I always feel hopeful at this time of the year. I know that it’s purely psychological, but now that we’ve entered 2025 there is a sense of endless potential, and all I have to do is make sure that I grab every opportunity that comes my way.
It’s like that each and every year, and of course it’s never turned out to be that simple. Life happens, and not always in the way that I want it to. In fact, I’ve been through some tough years and I already know that 2025 isn’t going to be easy. I’ve got a load of medical tests ahead of me. The floor of our house needs damp proofing and the walls need insulating so that’s going to be a big, stressful mess, for ourselves and for the cats. There’s family stuff going on. And on a larger, international scale everything feels… unsettled. No smooth sailing for me, then, and perhaps not for many, but that doesn’t mean that it’s going to be 365 days of doom and gloom. There is a lot to look forward to as well.
Some of the things that I look forward to include the return of the swallows and house martins. The baby hares that hop around our house, and the hedgehogs in the garden. The frogs and toads and newts, and the bulls who hang out in the field behind my house during most of the year, except these colder months.
I plan on visiting the coast. On visiting a farm where I can pet and groom highland cattle. I want to go to the kite feeding station, and to see the wild goats who live in the nearby national park.
There are a couple of courses I want to take on bat ecology and surveying. I may take one on amphibians as well – there are plenty in this area, and I do enjoy being around them.
A new year is an opportunity to contemplate our next actions. What’s working? What isn’t? What do we want? How can we get there?
This may sound very obvious, but if we did all act like that our lives would be pretty perfect, wouldn’t they? I mean, other than unexpected circumstances we’d all be heading in the direction we’d set for ourselves and we’d be getting ever closer to our perfect selves. Maybe you are. I hope that you are. I, unfortunately, am far from it and I know that I am not the only one…
So, how can we actually do this? How can we get to where we want to be?
I think that a good starting point is to make any goals that we set realistic ones. Sometimes, when you have a big goal, the way to achieve it is by breaking it into a series of smaller goals. You’ll still get there in the end, but it’ll feel much more manageable and that can make the difference between success and failure.
Holding yourself accountable can help, too, and if you need some support in that, there’s an excellent activity right here on Writing.Com that has helped me a great deal during 2024. That activity is "Habit Heroes " [13+], and it welcomes any goals, big and small. You will receive daily encouragement, and you can even earn Merit Badges as you go along. Since I joined, I have become much better at getting my daily exercise. My bedtime still needs work, but a lot of that’s to do with medical sleep issues, which are being looked into. I hope I’ll see it improve this year – it will be interesting to look back and see how far I have come.
Do you have any writing goals? Are you working on getting published? Do you want to host a contest or event and/or are you planning on participating in any? "Dear Me: Official WDC Contest" [E] is a good opportunity to reflect and plan ahead.
Don’t forget to be kind to yourself. It’s easy to be too self-critical. To burden ourselves with too great a set of expectations. We demand of ourselves what we’d never demand of others, and that doesn’t get us anywhere good. Make time to rest and relax and simply enjoy life. Allow yourself to explore what gives you joy, be it a hobby, or a walk through the woods, or a nice bath. Time is never wasted when it soothes the soul.
I love the small things. Watching the pheasants in the fields. Petting lambs. The new Hunger Games book’s being released on my birthday, and that makes me smile. Perfect timing. And I’ve only just discovered the fun of Lego, and have a new set to build!
Whatever you want out of the new year, you have it in you to get there. I wish you all the best, and can’t wait to see you achieve your dreams.
Kit
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