End of Year Approaches

 Wow!

Time has flown by hasn't it since I was last here!

The last post I have recorded is January, whoa, that was unexpected although looking in hindsight it's not really that surprising for me. I have needed to take some time away, as I'm sure I said previously, from the blogging sphere to reassess the role blogging has in my life. It has had to take a backburner for a long time now and I'm honestly not sure how much longer that will be...

Keeping Going

It has been a year where I've just needed to take focus away from my blog and, even though that has meant it has de-railed any attempt at finishing off my Off the Scale series, it hasn't stopped me from developing in other directions.

I knew a season like this was coming and I think I wrote about it in the not too distant past. Namely that my blog was going into the background for a season so that my journal could come into the foreground. Priorities shift as the ebb and flow of life happens and learning to ride that flow has been something I have been learning all over again. I have had to walk through a season of letting go where I understand, all over again, I don't have control over everything, I only have influence over certain things.

I don't have control over every thing, I only have influence over certain things.

 It has been a season of immense growth for me personally because through my journal I have learnt so much about what I am capable of and learning to ride on the weight of the gifts I have is infinitely more powerful than trying to force things to happen. In other words, I have learnt that to let my gifts lead me works out far more than trying to force my way forward into situations where I think my gifts will come to life.

They need to lead the way.

Activating them and accessing them is something that has been a journey of rest, recuperation and recovery since losing my dad almost four years ago now. I've had to go on the sick for a season for reasons tied in with that, which don't make it into here, other than to say that I was driving myself relentlessly onwards without paying sufficient attention to the effect the loss of a parent was having upon me physically, emotionally and mentally.

I ended up paying the price on my yesterday so I could recover my today.

Final Thought

In closing then, I just want you to know dear reader that whilst I may be sorry I've had to take a step away from blogging for the majority of 2025 it has been essential to help me to see the trajectory I set for myself was not the optimum one.

The optimum one.

That's all I'm bothered about anymore; finding that optimum trajectory for me and then launching out into that forsaking everything behind me so I can run unhindered.

May you, dear reader, run unhindered into 2026 and may it be your best year yet.

I'll be back at the end of the year for the awards.

TTFN,

===TLP===