Happy New Year folks!
We’ve made it! It’s the first day of a fresh decade which typically becomes a time when many of us reflect on our biggest achievements and highlights from the last year, everything we’ve accomplished with work or home or even family. But we’re here today to say – let us not forget the failures too! These are the moments that made us stronger, more resilient, savvy, realistic, kinder, more determined and hopefully a little wiser! So we believe, even the fails should be shown as highlights too!
We decided to keep it real and share a few of our biggest fuck ups of 2019… we’re not perfect, our year wasn’t perfect and yaaasss to this!
1. TECHNOLOGY: I accidentally deleted a whole folder of content on my drive and couldn’t retrieve it. Literally so many photographs, graphics and copy which had taken weeks to create. I had to rebuild it from scratch. 😑(And I also had to resist throwing my laptop across the room.)
2. PERSONAL CONNECTIONS: I missed my best friend’s 30th birthday because I was travelling. It was heartbreaking to not be there with her, after everything she’s done both for and with me. (But, I did send a tray of 30 cupcakes with photos of her 🔥butt on them to her office… lol.)
3. BIZ NIZ: Full disclosure, I have totally and completely failed at keeping up with the Rumours Blog. At the beginning of 2019 I‘d intended to publish new blog posts twice a week, but this somehow always ends up being the last thing on my list… After researching, curating & hosting retreats, networking, photography, social media content, the day job and everything else! I need to do better, (plus we need more contributors!! Holler at me if you wanna share your story!)
4. There have been SO many other things I’ve messed up or not done well, if at all in 2019, like keeping fit, eating healthy, staying in touch with all friends, family and contacts, maintaining my finances, looking after my skin, setting up a pension – oh and stopping the Tories win the election. MEGA FAIL. Though I don’t take full responsibility for that last one! 😉
So ladies, let our fuckups remind u that even when it seems like everything is going super great and we’re accomplishing big amazing things, we can still be totally shit and fail at some stuff too! And that’s OKAY!!
Don’t punish yourself if you don’t have a perfect highlight reel for 2019, roll on 2020 – wins, goals AND fails!! 🙌🏼
