AP 555: MESSY YEAR 2023 REVIEW: Adjusting to my fifth newborn, garden boxes, the ups and downs of the podcast, the habit baselines that saved me, how my DSL surprised me, the books and entertainment I loved most, and goals for my family in the new year

About Progress

Cloud10

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This is a yearly spin on my usual monthly series where I share my recent highs and lows, how my habits are going, a Do Something List update, plus what I'm loving lately and my commitments for the upcoming year. I hope this glimpse into my life, my family, my work, and my own self development encourages you in your own journey. Around here the goal is never perfection, just to keep trying, even if in very simple ways. I think you'll see that with all of the big changes going on for me, taking the smallest of steps has helped to keep me afloat and feeling like myself. As always, I encourage you to get messy, too! Take my free DSL Workshop in January! Messy Middle February 2023, What To Do When You Can't Do What You Used To, Modern Floral Tutorials, Plan a Me Day Finding Me Academy My FREE DSL Training My FREE habits class Full Show Notes Sticky Habit Method This episode is brought to you by Vionic Shoes (use code PROGRESS) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer from About Progress, and you're listening to The
0:07.6	Messy Middle. A monthly series where I share some of my own Messy Middle
0:12.1	so you can see what progress looks like for a real woman in real time. Yesterday I was looking at my gold planner for 2023. I truly poured so much time and attention and intention into it and yet when I was
0:37.4	looking at what I actually followed through with I only after I created all my
0:41.7	goals for the year, tracked for part of January, and the very beginning
0:46.7	of February, and then I have 10 and a half empty months.
1:01.1	Well, my friends, I just think there is no better representation of what a wonderful but messy year this has been for me.
1:06.7	Now, today we're doing a special episode. We are doing a play on the messy middle episodes, but we are doing a recap of my messy year. And the truth is, while I felt like it was an especially
1:16.6	messy year for me, I know I'm not alone, and in fact I don't think I've ever had a non-messy year either.
1:25.4	So I am hoping that in sharing, I will give you permission to reflect on your own messy year.
1:33.0	And what I'm going to do is I'll take the usual segments
1:37.0	and I'm going to instead apply them to my reflection
1:41.0	on that
1:45.0	I was personally disappointed I wasn't able to maintain a habit of you know my goal planner
1:51.0	like I was in the past
1:52.0	Looking back on it did still give me an opportunity you know my goal planner like I was in the past.
1:52.8	Looking back on it did still give me an opportunity
1:55.8	to reflect on the year and it helped me see that even with all the mess
2:00.6	it contained.
2:01.9	I'm overall so grateful for it and I'm weirdly proud of it too.
2:06.7	I'm proud of the mess. So as I reflect back and I hope as you reflect back to. I also hope that you can lean into your own
2:19.2	gratitude and pride in yourself that you made it through and that there were still some good and hard and messy and everything in between things that happened.
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