TOC #210: Why this year was the best worst year of my life
(December 31, 2024) The 2024 Epilogue
Pastor John got me again.
It was Christmas Eve, and I was (clearly not inconspicuously enough) sitting in a middle pew in my red sweater, waiting for the candles to be passed out, listening to my dad go on about how the white-haired guy he just said hi to was his same age, and could I even believe how good he looked for 68?
Sure, Bob, you look great, but I’m trying to worship the Lord over here.
Just as my dad was done reflecting on his childhood memories to me — something he does every time I see him, what a sentimental man — Pastor John approached our pew.
We greeted him with a smile and a Merry Christmas, expecting him to continue on and have the same interaction with the next pew.
He didn’t.
Instead, he asked me to do a reading.
Again.
I don’t know why I didn’t expect it — he does this at least every other year, probably because he knows I’m not going to say no.
(Especially not now that he is quite literally my next-door neighbor.)
(I would’ve at least brushed my hair if I knew the entire congregation would be watching me as I read to them about Mary’s journey from Nazareth.)
After I read through the passive 6 times to make sure I knew how to pronounce everything, I found myself in my own hyper-reflective moment (maybe Bob inspired me?) thinking about sitting in that same pew last Christmas Eve.
“I’ve lived an entire LIFE in the past year,” I thought to myself.
At the end of December 2023, I didn’t know anything that was about to come in 2024.
It was simultaneously (a word Wesley learned and learned how to spell this year) one of the best and one of the worst years of my life.
Here’s why.
The 2024 Epilogue: Definitely My Most Impressive (And Most Challenging) Year Yet
If you've been following me for a long time, you know that I always write an Epilogue about the year ending, and a Prologue about the year coming.
This year's was especially hard to write, because the year was so, so good — and, at times, so, so bad.
But I'm nothing if not ✨ unapologetically authentic on the Internet ✨ so this year's review has the great, the bad, and the ugly… starting with, as always, (half of) 2024 by the numbers:
1 first date.
1 beautiful relationship.
1 ex(ish) boyfriend.
1 devastating heartbreak.
1 new (dream) house (accidentally) purchased.
1 SEXY new (dream) car (intentionally) purchased.
1 new Kindergartener in the family.
1 death in the family.
1 life-altering Noah Kahan performance at Fenway.
1 website copy course sunsetted.
1 new website copy course reimagined and relaunched.
1 Get More Clients Challenge started and finished (with 300 participants!)
1 project that made me cry.
1 girls’ trip with my business besties.
1 new podcast soft launched.
1 new pair of cowboy boots purchased (sexy blue Tecovas, obviously).
1 mind-blowing $62,000 month.
1 not-surprising $2,000 month.
1 new weekly newsletter created, dedicated to complete money transparency (and chronicling my journey to making $1,000,000 in gross course sales in 2025.
1 new Tuesday morning “coffee shop” opened.
1 launch flopped.
1 new website copy template created to match the hottest new Showit website templates.
1 and a half months oscillating between being down bad crying at the gym and being on top of my shit on the Alive app.
1 extremely formative year for your favorite squirrel.
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