With about 30 seconds left in 2022…
With about 30 SECONDS left in 2022… I finally achieved my year-long intention 🤣
Last year I set A LOT of goals.
Not resolutions, per say, but goals.
Aaand I achieved a grand total of 3 of them. That’s a 15% success rate… Yay? 🤦🏼♀️
I didn’t lose 10 lbs — actually I gained 10 😳
I didn’t run 200 miles, or write every single day.
I didn’t make $60k this year (though I got close)
But really, I am actually quite proud of the three goals I did achieve.
I launched my creative writing website (www.AdrianaKopp.com)
I bought a house I love (with a partner I love)
I read 6 books just for fun (I actually 2x exceeded this goal — 12 in total)
But I didn’t just set goals for the year. I also set an intention. A focus word that I wanted to align all my actions with:
Authenticity.
In the world of online business I find myself often struck with envy. Part of that is the Instagram mirage. In reality, if you took me and plopped me into one of those “Insta-perfect” lives, I probably wouldn’t like it there.
I wanted to stop imitating other people and just be true to myself.
But turns out, that’s a tough nut to crack. It was something I had to PRACTICE.
I had to catch myself in moments of envy or imitation and remind myself to “just do you, boo.”
On New Year’s Eve this year (or last year? Whatever, that’s weird, you know what I mean!) we had an 8-course gourmet meal, home cooked by all our friends. It’s this incredible tradition we created where everyone brings a tapas-style “course” along with a beverage pairing.
After dinner in my “Zoom Fancy” attire (yoga pants on bottom, fancy sweater on top) I could be found sitting on my friend’s living room couch, the lone girl surrounded by a group of guys watching the college football playoff game (Ohio State vs. Georgia). 🏈
⏱ With ten minutes til midnight, the rest of the girls wandered over to the living room and asked if we could change the channel to watch the ball drop.
The game was very tight — Georgia had a one point lead but Ohio State had the ball — and there was less than one minute on the clock. We argued these points to the girls.
They declared that 60 seconds of football could easily take 10 minutes and we honestly couldn’t deny it, especially since there were still a couple time outs left.
I pulled up the game on my phone and the guys crowded around, awaiting a final field goal attempt by Ohio State.
In those last minutes before midnight my partner looked at me and said “I’m so glad you’d rather watch the game.” …
Ummm, what? I cocked my head…
Here’s the thing: My partner doesn’t even like football. In fact, as the more traditionally “romantic” of the two of us, I would have expected him to want to watch the ball drop.
But no, he loves me in all my quirks, including my die-hard loyalty to SEC football. 🥰 He loves me for being curled up in my yoga pants yelling at a phone screen rather than a shiny ball that slowly sinks to the ground. He loves when I am truly being me.
And I realized that maybe I was finally achieving the intention I set for myself at the start of the year…
Maybe, finally, in the last seconds of 2022, I was being authentic. 😂
For those of you who didn’t watch the game but are now being held in suspense and need to know how it ended — I got you:
With 15 seconds until midnight they took the snap, placed the ball, and… the kicker shanked it. Cue the screaming and cheering — all of us racing over to find our partners and a glass of champagne, and join in the countdown of the final 10 seconds.
It was a pretty epic way to end the old year and ring in the new one, and one I won’t soon forget.
So what about you?
Will you set goals for the new year? Intentions? Focus words? Or are you more of a let’s-just-wing-it type?
Whatever your style, Happy New Year 🙂