February 2025 - Do you journal?

How was your January?

For so many of us we start the year with hope and determination. This will be our year, but things don't change quickly and it is hard to keep that motivation going. We start to second guess whether we have what it takes.

I want to suggest something that I think is really helpful. Start journaling. Just start. Write down your hopes and dreams and goals and fears. Put pen to paper and make it real.

So often we sail through and feel like we haven't really accomplished anything, but when we journal we also have a record to go back to and see acknowledge the wins that actually happened. We can see the hopes we had and realize that we are really close. We can see the growth. We can see the accomplishments. We can check off those boxes and celebrate those wins.

A dream that isn't written down, is just a wish. Make it real by writing it down and revisiting it regularly. Sometimes our dreams change a bit, and that is okay. Make note of that. Embrace the flexibility and press on.

Working on our own, in our home offices as solopreneurs we need to do all we can to find the motivation to keep going. How about a workgroup? I want to open up an opportunity to Zoom in and just work with a group of ladies together. Not a chat, but just being in the presence of women who are tackling the same feeling of isolation and lack of motivation. Sometimes just knowing someone is there in the next virtual cubical helps us focus and forge on.