2023 will not be a year of resolutions, goals and plans. 

Rather, I want it to be a year of action and choices – and making them under the considerations of being brave and authentic to myself.

I don’t wish for my decisions to be influenced by fear, or societal expectations, or work expectations. I want to carve time to discover and develop who I am meant to be. 

Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensure, it must ensure, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run – in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it. 

Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning