2024 has been a blur. Now that we’ve reached the end of this year, we find ourselves looking back at the year that has passed. Our accomplishments, our goals, our successes, our failures. The things we are incredibly proud of, and the not-so-proud moments of our year. I look at this time as a time for deep reflection. Using it as the time to contemplate the shortcomings of the year trying to find the root of why these were experienced.
2024 for me was a tornado chaser of a year. Always moving forward, sometimes spiraling out of control, chasing one tornado after the other, never looking back, never looking forward, just rushing towards the next deadline. Somewhere along the line, I lost my why. I’ve gotten to the end of 2024 with big questions as to where this year has gone. We all know time flies, but when you are so consumed with the things around you, don’t even realize that you’re running around without finding some form of direction.
So this brings me back to the first part of the Heading of this post…
An Intentional Lifestyle
Sitting back the other day, contemplating the trajectory for 2025. I decided that 2025 will be an intentional year. I will be living with the utmost intention. Dating with intention. Working with intention. Chasing dreams with intention. keeping house and taking care of myself with intention. Every aspect of my life will be pursued with extreme intention.
By the end of 2025, I want to be able to look back and feel that I have lived every moment of the year intentionally. It comes down to finding the intentionality behind the small moments in life to eventually have an overall intentional outlook.
I don’t quite know how to do this yet. Pinterest has been a big help so far, but I’ve learned throughout this year that success comes down to realistic implementation.
Simply Living Aloud – An Intentional Lifestyle
That’s where this Website comes in. To share my journey throughout this year towards an authentic intentional lifestyle as a South African living in Cape Town. Through that, finding my Ikigai – Hopefully. This website will by no means be a collection of niche-specific content – No, I can’t promise that. The only specific content I can guarantee at this moment is that it will be South African (my rendition of it) lifestyle-oriented. Including little excursions, a demonstration of a fondness for wine and good food, and sometimes endless ramblings on the lessons I’ve learned along the way. I’ve already written up a whole three-page Word document on the direction I want this website to go. For now, I’ll keep it safe on the Dinosaur (my 12-year-old laptop, used exclusively for watching movies and deep archiving).
Will you join me on this journey in 2025? Let me know in the comments below if you have tips for living intentionally in your day-to-day life. I would love to hear all about it. But, for now, that’s all from my side.
Best wishes