My best newsletter of the year (part one)
Thanksgiving gratitude edition / Issue 1,496
Oh, hi friends!
Welcome to my favorite newsletter of the year!
Yesterday, I asked you what you’re grateful you finally decided to do this year.
Here are your answers…
In 2024, Brass Ring Daily readers are grateful they finally decided to…
Let go, and let others lead.
Drop some of the turmoil and realize that part of the dream is the (personal) one I’m living. I’m accepting that what I really want to do professionally is different than the « loud » one I’d initially imagined for myself.
Act versus react!
Learn Transcendental Meditation.
Welcome my first child. It's overwhelming and exhausting but I'm absolutely besotted.
Give myself a chance to complete my PhD and second novel; a chance is all I needed! And I’ve just now decided to be proud of myself whether I finish one, both or neither.
Quit Instagram for good.
Do The Artist's Way and discover the magic of journaling.
Say "no" to leading a prestigious committee, because it would have distracted me from the ‘real’ work I am committed to. (My younger self would have said yes in an instant.)
Show up for myself by making (and releasing!) music again.
Believe in myself and devote myself fully to acting.
Write the novel that’s been living inside my heart for 20 years.
Write a new opening number for my musical Express! It unlocked everything.
Allow myself to be happy!
Push myself in my songwriting. In January, I joined a group where everyone is writing an original song following a common prompt each week. So far this year, I've written 47 songs!! And I'm recording an album!!
Make my needs heard at work so that I can feel more fulfilled.
Be the people person I actually am. All the good in my life comes from being out among the people.
Write my pilot episode. 💪📝 and sent it to the right people.
Pay for a menopause-focused fitness/health "coach." It was more than I've ever spent on that type of thing. I'm more the "get the free version and figure it out myself" type. But I invested for 4 months, have lost weight, gained muscle, and reminded myself that help may come with a "cost" but not getting that help can "cost" way more.
Have a baby, run the LA marathon, AND start my online record store!
Exercise daily. I'm about 7cm down from a year ago around my middle! I can't function unless I do a workout in a day now. Even on hard days, and when I have two small children hanging off me, I can still do it!
Leave the corporate world and become a small business owner! It's stressful, chaotic, freeing, challenging, humbling, grounding and beautiful (extra thanks to you Kara for helping me make the transition!).
Get a full-time job and lovingly put my business into hibernation.
Travel overseas for the first time! My sister and I had an unforgettable trip hiking half of Scotland's gorgeous West Highland Way.
I’m working with an editor (I did my homework and they’re legit) and am in the process of getting a children’s book published on Amazon!!
I am grateful that I finally started the remodel I've been talking about for years...grateful that I am going easier on myself when things don't quite go as planned...and grateful that my kids found vocations that feed their soul.
After parting ways from an abusive collaborator, I am grateful for a new collaboration on that musical and another for a play about Trump’s censorship of a scientist (true story) that had me paralyzed.
Invest in myself (physically, financially, emotionally) to get the support I need to move forward on my dreams.
This year I’m grateful for putting one foot in front of the other, despite any doubt that fluttered through my thoughts.
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Wishing you and your loved ones a happy Thanksgiving!
Beautiful picture. Where was it taken?