Hard Year, Beautiful Growth

My year so far has indeed been an eventful one. I started this year in one of those ways I’ll refer to as a beautiful start, and so far so good; even though it has been hard getting here, I’ll say it isn’t so bad now too. This year, despite being a hard year, I’ll be honest and say God has been overall for me. I started the year talking to one of my best persons in the world, and the plans we made together were ones that gave room for adjustments and just doing our best to get the little wins. It worked for the first few months, but after some time, we just gave up talking about whether or not we achieved our goals because we saw that we’d consistently been smashing our monthly goals.

So for this week’s Hive Learners topic, NOT JUST YET, I’ll be sharing some of my goals that I set out to achieve but am yet to accomplish, and whether or not it is still realistic to achieve them this year. Like I mentioned earlier, we started this year with no major goal except for doubling our Hive stakes. At that time, I think I had over 6k Hive Power, and now I’m already over 14k Hive Power. Another goal we had was making a post daily, but I missed a day this month sadly, and there is no way I can achieve that again. I was really pained at first, but I’m still proud and happy for how far I got.

This will be my highest yearly writing streak, and I’m glad I came this far. I don’t think I’ll be able to pull this goal off next year too because my life will be really busy, but I’m not going to say no just yet. I’m going to wait for next year to unfold and see what plans God and His amazing universe have for me. I’m actually very expectant of what the coming year holds for me because there are so many things that happened this year that I didn’t expect, and they were mostly beautiful and adventurous.

Maybe I was able to appreciate this year better because I didn’t make major goals. I mean, I didn’t feel too disappointed about anything. It usually made me feel bad at first, but it always got better. I’m hoping this coming year will be a year when I’ll be able to live the lessons learnt this year and avoid making so many mistakes as I did this year. I’m praying that for any goals that are left undone that I can’t even realize yet, I hope I’ll be able to get them done; if not, I hope I will in the coming year.

I was pushed in so many areas this year, and I’m grateful to God for giving me the wisdom to scale through those hard times and those times that felt like I didn’t deserve it. Now I’m looking back and seeing just how much those struggles have built me and are building me, and I’m just grateful. For the rest of the year, I just want to let God do His thing as He has been doing and just keep putting myself out there with little or no expectations or excuses.

Thanks for reading.

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