Today I'm bringing a little tough love and this is more like a tough love letter to myself.

Hopefully you get something from it, but I need a kick in the pants and I'm giving it to myself right now.

Hey Clutterbugs, welcome back to the Clutterbug podcast.

Today we're going to get tough and real,

not just about cleaning and organizing the house, but about your life and my life in general. And look at the big picture and hopefully make a big change on the things we want to in 2025.

Nope, not hopefully. We are going to make a big change

in 2025. So while you're listening to this, please, please, please take action on something today.

Do those dishes, put away the laundry, vacuum, mop, dust, catch up or keep up so that you can feel really proud of yourself at the

end of this podcast. It's going to be short and sweet and to the point, but I want to make a

declaration. Is that the word? A declaration? Sure. To you and to myself because I need to make a change in 2025.

So looking back at the end of this year, you know, I remember sitting on New Year's Eve.

I had a bunch of friends over.

It was a great time.

But when that ball dropped in, we were like, woo, 2025.

I felt this twinge of regret. Because when I look back on last year,

2024, I think this is the first year in a really long time that I'm not proud of the growth

that I made last year. I can't think of anything other than, yes, I became a firefighter. That was

amazing. But all the other aspects of my life, there was no improvement. If anything, there were

things that I didn't do or have like gone worse, kind of slid back. And I was trying to put my finger on the

why and what changed because I had so many years of real personal growth and pride. And then I had like

two fumbles. And I'm looking like what happened, what was really different in in 2023 and 24 to make me feel

like, ooh, that was 365 days that I didn't make the most of. And what I know happened was I changed

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