Hey friends. Okay, this was a completely unplanned podcast, but I started writing a newsletter for today to answer the question, my 2023 revival experiment dot, dot, dot, did it work? Because as some of you all know, in 2023, I did a whole experiment. I'll tell you about it.

And I think it's interesting to go back and reconsider if something worked. So I am currently

556 words into my newsletter and like, I'm not even close, y'all, to tell them this story.

So I figured as I was writing this, I was like, this is actually a newsletter that should be a podcast instead of an meeting that should be an email. And so I was like, let's just record a podcast. So let me set the stage for you of where I was in the beginning of 2023.

So like, and actually, let's go back a little bit farther because my vision for my revival experiment actually started back in October, November of 2022.

Now, if you've been around these parts for a while, you know that I love

year-long experiments. They are like my favorite. So these started all the way back in 2013 when I

said, I want to get 100 rejection letters. In 2015, I did a hashtag Post-It Daily project on Instagram. In 2017, I

decided on January 4th to experiment with no drinking for a year. And if you have been around for a while,

you know that that turned into, as of this January 4th, seven years of sobriety.

I did a year of truth talks on Instagram in 2018.

2022, I did a year of no where I stayed off social media for a year.

I did not buy any new clothing.

No skincare products.

I got rid of so many newsletter subscriptions. I did not do

anything out of obligation. It was just a big, fat year of no. And then towards the end of my

year of no, I started thinking about what next? What do, how do you follow up a year of no? And Cardiffo was so interesting for me

that I've talked about here before in my year of no was that I slowed down so much. I was

tired. I rested. I got really quiet. I did a lot of healing. And that looked so different than what I thought it would look like at the beginning of the year because at the beginning of the year I thought I'm going to have so much creative energy for things that are not social media. But once I stopped all the things, my body was like, it's time to power down

for a little while. And it was great. Sorry for my singing. It was exactly what I needed. And

when things look different than what we think they will, it can be really jarring, right?

But we know that one of the five pillars of radical self-belief is acceptance.

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