Girlfriends, episode number 353, 23 things for 2023.

Hello and welcome to girlfriends.

I'm Danielle Bean.

I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you know you're worth as a woman

so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living.

This week, we are welcoming a brand new year. And we're

going to be talking about not New Year's resolutions, but 23 things for 2023. Can't wait to talk

all about it with you. Let's go.

Hey, girlfriend, welcome. Happy New Year. So glad you are joining me here for Brand Spanking New Year 2023. And we're a little ways into it, but it's totally okay to still be setting some goals

for the new year. I hope you enjoyed a really good holiday season.

I hope you got some downtime as crazy and as chaotic as these times are. I love the fact that

family comes home, so many different kinds of homecomings that we experience this time of year.

You might have gone home to your parents' place with kids.

You might have had big kids coming home to spend time with you. And it's all very enjoyable,

but also disruptive to our regular schedules. And we really are made for routine. We like our

routines, don't we? We like our regular life. So here's to kind of getting back into, and we're not quite there yet,

but ordinary time, and maybe you wait till the baptism of the Lord. I don't know if you're one of those

people. Not judging. I think it's great if you keep your tree up that long. But, you know,

we're kind of getting back into regular routines and back to work, but I still think it's an

opportunity. I consider the whole month of January, an opportunity to kind of look back on the

year past, but then make goals for the coming year. And this is a great opportunity to do that.

So what I'm proposing that we do here is instead of making traditional New Year's resolutions, we talk about

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