2024 Wrapped
All over social media today, and it seems like it will be for a few days, is everyone’s Spotify Wrapped.
If you are unfamiliar, it is all the songs, stories, podcasts etc you listened to over the past year on Spotify bundled up and put in a playlist and little slideshow.
And now I am seeing a few other social media accounts doing their own joke version of it, footy clubs, retail stores etc.
Well how about you do your own little Wrapped? How many times did you go for a walk? Read a book? Hit the gym? Drink enough water for the day? How many movies did you watch with your family? How many bushwalks? How many times did you mow the lawn? Do the dishes? Put on loads of washing?
All of these tasks add up.
Some are pleasant, others, not so much. So where did you spend most of your time? And is it where you wanted to spend it?
Ie, did you have a plan for 2024 to be your year? The one where you got onto a fitness regime? Ate better? Started cycling? Playing squash again? Decided to take a cold plunge every day??!!
When you look back at your year did you do what you set out to do? Did you get some of the way there? Or did life, like it does, throw a spanner in the works?
If you got there. Sensational! Got some of the way there. Solid effort to accomplish what you did. Life got in the way. That is OK, setbacks can be opportunities.
If you didn’t get there and things went horrible you can look to next week, not next year, and see what you can do. Can you get a new water bottle and sip a bit more each day? Can you go for a walk with the dog one afternoon next week? Can you jump on a phone call and talk to someone like me about a plan?
Any of those small steps will start you in the direction you might have intended at the start of the year.
Whenever we see someone else’s change we only notice the leaps and bounds, never the little steps, like 200 more mls of water a day. The boring but tiny steps.
Yes those tiny steps will add up, just a little one each day or week. Layer each one on to the next and in 12 months time when we are seeing all the Spotify Wrappeds for 2025 you will be able to look back and see your own wrapped has a very different look to it.