All around me, people are setting intentions for the new year, making resolutions, creating change, and re-evaluating their lives. My socials are full of people's words for the year as they attack the new year with enthusiasm. This year I feel a need to slow down into the new year, to take an unhurried approach.

There is a popular social media post doing the rounds that says "You Choose Your Hard." It then goes on to describe the ways that this is true, things like, exercise is hard but so is a heart attack, choose your hard, being financially disciplined is hard, being in debt is hard, choose your hard.

I woke up this morning with a song stuck in my head. More accurately I woke up with a couple of lines of the song running over and over in my head on repeat like a toddler asking why. The song was I'm so blessed by Cain and to be honest, it's not my type of song.