What did you set out to accomplish last year? What did you do to cultivate your goals and your life? Did your intentions manifest last year?
Last year I set out to accomplish a long list of goals that I never really got to cultivate or manifest. Because my life — and those of my core family’s — got shaken up by outside interference, I spent 2013 simply trying to survive. Thriving wasn’t an option. Waking up, facing the day, and finally crawling back into bed when I was finished with it all was about all I could muster. My goals realigned with the goals of a state agency. My intentions became focused upon chasing away said state agency and reunifying my fractured family. On December 31st, 2013, I was still sitting there, wondering how much more fight it would take — and how much more fight I had left to give.
However, 2013 was not without its accomplishments. I discovered a wellspring of strength within my very being. I managed to maintain my household, functioning as a single mother with two children. I managed to maintain a marriage that has been attacked viciously for over a year. I managed to show up to work with a smile on my face and hope in my heart. I finally got my driver’s license (a mere three months before my 30th birthday). I rallied support. I enlisted the help of higher-ups, who gave me the victories I received by 2013’s end. January 2013 may have been a ridiculously awful month, but by December 31st, 2013, I had risen from the ashes and grown into the woman I am today.
