New Year, New Opportunities: Making the most of 2025

2025 is all about embracing new opportunities and trying to live a life I'm excited to live, all thanks to a Christmas movie.

Hello, readers! Welcome back to WriteWatchWork for 2025. I hope you all had a Happy New Year and have enjoyed the first couple of weeks of January.

Unfortunately, this year kicked off with me falling ill, which, quite frankly, put a spanner in my plan for the start of 2025. Having made a bingo card for the year with goals, both personal and professional, for me to achieve, I was eager to start working and ticking off things.

However, I was forced to spend a week sleeping and resting. While initially frustrated, it probably did me a world of good to have a week of purely doing nothing but resting and giving my body and mind a break.

Thankfully, I'm now fully recovered and am more than ready to embrace 2025. And one thing I will be focusing on is my happiness.

Now, I understand how that may seem like an obvious thing to work on each year because of course, everyone should be happy. But what I mean when I say I want to prioritise my happiness is that I will be working on doing things for myself and things that will help me in all avenues of my life.

In the past, I've been a bit of a people-pleaser and have sometimes not prioritised myself. However, in 2025, I'm going to work on ensuring I do what I want and do things that will help me get to where I want to be.

After watching the movie Red One, starring Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson, I became inspired to always invest in showing up for myself. The movie was a great Christmas film to watch (if you're a Die Hard fan, I'd recommend it), but most of all, what stuck with me was some of the dialogue.

There was a scene pretty early on in the film with Dwayne Johnson's character talking to J.K. Simmons' character and something they said was along the lines of the below:

We choose every day who we want to be.

This stayed with me and it inspired me because it's such a simple sentence that holds a lot of weight. Yes, society can impact who we become and how we act on a daily basis, but ultimately, it is down to ourselves.

Therefore, for 2025, I'm going to make decisions for myself that will help me become a better version of myself and help me reach the goals I want to achieve. However, I'm not going to put pressure on myself; if there's one thing I've learned since the end of 2024, it's that sometimes things happen that we can't control and it's always for a reason.

So, with that said, I hope 2025 is a year full of promise and happiness for you all.

Until next time...