Greetings and welcome to 2025! Let’s take a look at how my blog did in December 2024.
First, I wrote and published 6 blog posts. Not bad. Not great. Better than zero blog posts though. Blog traffic has been essentially non-existent per my Google analytics, which isn’t surprising. This is a new blog and I’ve done zero promotion, as I’m just working on building out the article archives. Including this post, I’m now at 40 posts of my 100 post goal.
I brought in the New Year with my family at Grayton Beach State Park. We rented a cabin there, spending 4 days exploring that region of the panhandle. I haven’t been to the panhandle very often and I was surprised by its beauty. Don’t tell the developers.
Here’s a picture of the last sunset of 2024. I was fortunate enough to see the first sunset of 2025 as well. I can’t think of a much better way to end and start the year. We also spent part of one of our nights laying on the beach, looking at the stars and I wasn’t sure if there was a way to make my life any better than it was at that moment.
Unfortunately, life can’t always be like that moment or that camping trip. “Real” life is setting in as I write this, because in about an hour I have to start my day job again. Yup, the day job said in exchange for them graciously giving me some time off to spend with my wife and family, I must return to work on a Friday and work through the weekend and through all of next week and I can have another break next Saturday if I am a good boy.
One more reason to continue my work of escaping from Shawshank.
Speaking of escaping from Shawshank, as many people do, I’ve had time to reflect on what I want to accomplish in 2025.
I’ve had a tough time organizing everything in my mind, so I’m not 100% of the way there for knowing exactly what I’m gonna pursue in 2025. But I have a framework and I think at some point in the near future I’ll do a post on my 2025 goals. I have a lot of goals because I’m sick and tired of living the same way year after year when there are so many amazing things out there to do and I can’t do them because I’m stuck. Another post though, another post.
The only thing I know for sure is 2025 is going to be the most self-imposed challenging year of my life, because I know I need to do something to build a better future for my kids.
If you’re a parent I’m sure you know this feeling well.
Let’s have a great 2025!