For many years I’ve chosen a word to focus on for the year. I’m not sure what really happened in 2024 but it seems everything just kind of went sideways. As I was reviewing 2024 I realized that I never chose a word. Not that it really would have kept things on the straight and narrow but, it was just another piece of last year that I didn’t overly enjoy. As I start thinking about 2025 and what I want to accomplish and how I hope my year goes one word came to mind – GROW. It really fits every aspect of my life.
Writing – I want to grow this year by finishing many of the unfinished projects and diving into Books, Botanicals, & Broomsticks which is a witchy series and definately not in my wheelhouse.
Publication – I want to grow the number of books I have published. I’d like to go from 11 published novels to 15+ published novels. (Lodge book 6 & 7, Journals book 2, Comstock book 3).
Business – I want to grow the business side of my writing life. I want to grow on social media, YouTube, and cross marketing with the farm.
Teaching – I want to grow as a teacher. I want to get better at differentiation and trauma informed teaching.
Farm – We want to grow the farm this year. After 2 rather dismal years in the garden we are on a mission to build out all our raised beds and develop our various growing spaces. We also want to add rabbits, goats, pigs, and a gaurdian animal this year. We will for sure be adding more chickens since we lost 16 of the 26 we raised up in 2024.
Finally, I want to grow in my knowledge of making soap, lotion, other bath products.
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