2021. It’s A Wrap.

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It’s hard to believe that twenty twenty one is coming to an end, and this is my last podcast of the year. It’s really hard to believe, though, that we’re saying twenty twenty two because it’s right here, it’s so close.

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So today I want to celebrate this last year. I mean, how do you celebrate in today’s world?

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I mean, it’s consuming and it’s overwhelming, and it’s really more negative than positive.

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So how do you celebrate? Well, first you have to make a choice to celebrate. And it takes time and it takes daily effort. It might take more than one time in the day, right? What you will find in celebrating, though, you’ll see that today’s world is not all negative.

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I mean, you can choose to be consumed in the positive.

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Take time to think and ponder on it. Look back at this past year, I would even take a blank sheet of paper and have a column that says Pro and a column that says Con and start just writing it. You’ll be surprised at the positive that’s there.

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It takes effort and it takes a little bit of time and it takes maybe a quiet moment and it takes stepping back.

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But but, you know, pretty quickly you’re going to be overwhelmed or grateful for the good. So twenty twenty one, it wasn’t twenty twenty.

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I mean, both years have been challenging,

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But in different ways, but at the end

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Of the day, they were both doable, right?

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And I look back at

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The marketplace in this country, the business community and

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I continue to see such resilience and creativity.

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That determination is still there.

We’re a little more tired, but it’s still there. And it’s it is inspiring to me when I see that it energizes me, when I see that also as all the issues of today’s world, you know, the one thing that’s happened is people have kind of stepped back and they’ve assessed and they revised many

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Aspects in their life, I think for the better. My son has become more of a minimalist. And I don’t know how he becomes more mentally minimal than he is, but he’s chosen really to step back and say, maybe we don’t need to do and be all the things we were. I’m continually, though, inspired by how the everyday person continues to handle things. I love going on LinkedIn and I just do my little skimming to. I find positive

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Stories, things that are impactful, things that are inspiring. If you need to to

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To find something good, you can find it.

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So celebrating this past year, I would tell you to end it with a bang. Enjoy that Christmas

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Season. I didn’t say fill

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It up with stuff,

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But enjoy it. And sometimes it is this simple that makes the difference. I know for Thanksgiving month, the month of November, I decided to give my children journals on Halloween and I gave them fancy pencils and pens and some things to look in this journal.

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And every day of November, I asked

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Them to write something they’re grateful for. It doesn’t need to be a big poem in a book, and it doesn’t need to be fancy. It’s just think about your day or start your day, reflect on your day and write something that was good. And that’s what I want back on December twenty fifth for Christmas.

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It’s simple stuff like that. They can make your holiday season, but make

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Sure you end the year with a bang celebrating.

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Live it up. Drink, eat, drink and be merry as we all sit back, reflect, renew and restore that soul right and ring out

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New Years by being with the people you love. Either throw a big party or sit back with the one you care about the most and talk

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About how great it was celebrated. I don’t think twenty twenty

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Two is is is not going to be twenty twenty one, let alone twenty twenty. Who knows what it will bring? The only thing you can do, though, is control what we can and influence change on what we can’t control. It will be a new day with new challenges, but also new opportunities. So as you’re celebrating and wrapping up the year and reflecting on the good, so you’re not consumed in the bad.
Look at the fact that you’re going to get to have a new year right and look at the new opportunities and challenges it will bring. As I look in the past year, though, I am looking at what I missed pre twenty twenty and I’m going to make sure that I add those things back in over time and more and more

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All the things that stopped or have all these new rules. I mean, what are you missing? How are you going to bring it back at work? We stop breaking bread together, which means eating at my desk and not taking a break for lunch. Not good.

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I really miss being out in the marketplace. I realized this when I attended the SBA gala and I got to see people we all had mask on for a period of time. We ate dinner, we talked, we drink wine and then we got to

Hear really inspirational

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Stories. And even though I got home at nine 30 that night, I was so energized.

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For me, the

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Missing is part of wrapping up the year, so I make it sure that it’s in twenty twenty two. So some recaps of Twenty Twenty One.

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Well, business was good, it was for a lot of people it was it was good.

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My relationships are strong. I mean, I’ve been able to maintain and keep up with people in the Zoom thing and all the different ways you can act. My family’s going, well, you know, that’s a good thing.

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My health is awesome.

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I mean, we’ve learned to navigate through the continual pandemic. Covid is not over, but we’re fighting it and we’re seeing better numbers.

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Schools are back in session. Those are good things. Businesses continue at home or in the office, and they all make it work. The recreation and fun is being done at capacity over this past summer,

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Where I usually go to a place in

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Florida. They had 96 percent

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Occupancy in their rentals throughout

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That little route.

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30 a. that I love to go to. That’s encouraging, you know, even the government is still working. Laugh out loud, even if you don’t like them, they still are and they’re functioning.

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We survived an election year, whether

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We like the outcomes or not.

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And really, people are much more engaged in elections this year because of the last one we had. That’s a good thing. I mean, my own district where I live just for school board and the amount of people that ran for council and the amount of people that volunteered with voting and the turnout was exceptional. So I love the fact that I

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See all that debate and passion and engagement.

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I’m still able to do my podcasts and have this audience which

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Grew, and I was able to have the Brady Wear Women’s Leadership Conference this year. And like twenty twenty one around like twenty twenty, and we actually even had the governor of Ohio, and it was so pretty cool I was able to become a board member of the Ohio Women’s Coalition, which got $10 million in the budget in Ohio for women owned businesses. And I got to be on the weld calendar for December,

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So I just had a great great year and so did my clients.

They were banner in 20 and 21 for the most

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Part, and it has fueled tremendous growth and

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Optimism. But people are still very scared and very cautious, right? But they’re very engaged and they’re focused.

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You can choose the bad

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You can choose to good. But for me personally, this past year, my immediate family, my husband and I call them my adult children with jobs. We had great financial years and we didn’t have to really use any of the economic stimulus and assistance. I mean, how grateful can you be for that? My daughter got engaged and we are planning and doing the big wedding thing, so that’s cool. My business grew, adding new clients great revenue streams. I bet it did for you. We actually have ninety nine percent of our employees

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Filled at birdie.

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And my little grandsons, Jude, my man and Silas, I call my little side my little guy. They can actually say, Mimi, that’s awesome.

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And my health is good. At fifty eight, I

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Just got my my results back. I have no medications. My numbers are built better. The only problem I have is I still think PI is a fruit,

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So that’s a problem. But as you and I wrap up another year, as you’ve heard, I’ve talked

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About the good. I’ve talked about the things that are positive, the things that I choose to consume myself in. You need to do the same. Be challenged and energized on that new day, one one twenty two and consider it a new blank sheet of paper. It is my hope. I honestly mean this, that you’ve been impacted by the podcast and that we will enjoy another year together. My podcast is coming up in January. It’s called plain and simple. It’s just hard to be in business in that podcast. Here’s a few tidbits from it. If you don’t want to be as exhausted in twenty two, here’s some tips do very little social media, except my podcast, of course,

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Still be informed

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On the right places and the right outlets and make sure that you know you’re making some decisions on truths. Plan restoration. I can’t emphasize that enough. Eliminate those negative people. Not so easy to do. Make sure you don’t just think about your health. There’s emotional health, physical health and spiritual health. The one thing that’s helped me tremendously in twenty twenty one as I look back, is I chose how to start my day and end my day because what I found in this book, who knows if it’s true,

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But it worked the first hour and last hour of every

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Day determine how you sleep at night and how your day goes the next.

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So how I spend that first hour of the day kind

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Of dictates how my day goes and when I choose to wind down my day

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Is that that makes. That’s when I get the good sleep.

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Ok, so I learned that one of the great things remember you’re

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Created on purpose for a purpose,

And I love my life focus and statement in my in my why? And what are you missing? Bring it back to your life. So challenge. Celebrate twenty twenty one by choosing to not be consumed and overwhelmed in the in the negative, in the positive, but do it for the good and end it with a great year of Christmas and New Year’s on your terms. And bring back those things you’re missing during this holiday season. And most of all, thanks for listening and being part of my podcast and life.

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