What's going on, everyone on, everyone, Emily Abadi here. You are listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

Y'all, it is wild. Hurtle is about to be seven. We have a few weeks left. But I remember like when Hurtle was three. And I thought to myself, you are a full-blown toddler. I have a toddler.

This is crazy. And now I am like, I cannot believe this thing that I started as a side project

in 2018. Wow. What a journey that we've been on. That's not what I want to talk about today. I'm sure I'll get emotional about that in a few weeks. What I want to talk about today is the fact that I don't have it all figured out. I don't have anything figured out. Okay, that's a lie. I have some things figured out. But when it comes to what I am working on in 2025,

it is a blank slate right now. And I have felt a little hard on myself about that lately. I felt a

little hard of myself. I've been a little hard on myself. I open social media and I see

folks talking about all of the stuff that they have coming down the pipe that they can't wait

to tell you about in 2025. And I'm starting this newsletter because I want to fill you in and

et cetera, et cetera. And I'm like, well, here I am twiddling my thumbs,

wondering what I'm doing wrong that I don't have it all figured out. And the fact is,

and I know this to be true, so I'm letting you know as well, there is nothing wrong with you

if you don't have it figured out. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Here's the deal, right?

I believe that what is for me won't pass me by.

And I know it sounds a little woo-woo, but instead of stressing in this time period, yes, like I said,

I've been a little hard on myself. But I am choosing to embrace the fact that it's all going to be fine.

It's all going to be fine. It's all going to be fine.

99.9% of the time I say this often.

If the worst thing that happens is that you are exactly where you started, then transparently,

it's not all that bad.

And right now, I don't have a ton of things locked in for the beginning of the year.

And I am choosing to then instead be where my feet are in this moment and use this time to my

advantage. So what's that look like? It looks like being intentional thinking about what I have done in the past 365, what I have enjoyed, what I would want to do again, and what I don't.

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