Dear , 

Happy New Year 2025! 

Are you diving in to year-end review, and goal-setting as we discussed last week?  Click here if you missed it and want some of the questions I ask myself before entering a new year and a new chapter. 

And just last week, I announced a new eBook that can help this time of year. Small Steps, Big Wins: How to Clarify and Achieve Goals with Ease is available and ranked #1 new release in a few categories! It's free on Kindle Unlimited and currently on sale for only .99!

Click to read the full description and grab your copy at this crazy price. (You only need the free Kindle app to read eBooks on your phone.) I love the reviews coming in!

Amidst all the feasting, friendship and family time this holiday season (and unexpectedly launching a new ebook!), I’ve been deeply pondering how I want to show up professionally in 2025. I do a lot of things: write, coach, speak, create art, and host women’s retreats. 

Part of my yearly review as a business owner is to assess where my resources are going—energetically as well as financially—always asking myself if I’m using my time well and sowing my seeds wisely. 

This "inventory" is also relevant to personal expenditures of time and money, so I hope you will apply the same assessment in your world—business or personal. 
 

The time and energy I spend each week to capture photos or videos and prepare for our Tuesday newsletter keeps popping up for me, with a few question marks. I've been holding that with curiosity, trying to be open-minded to what it means. 

I definitely have been writing to you a long time! I started this newsletter in 2014, even before I published my book in 2015. By 2018, you all began asking when the next book would come. 

You can read my full response HERE in a newsletter entitled, It's Time to Quit, along with a good list of what it may be time to let go of. But the short story is that I committed to emailing you a new, weekly meditation every Tuesday, which I have done since November 20, 2018, almost 320 weeks in a row!

After ten years, I'm considering that it may be time for some changes to how we interact on Tuesdays. For now, I've decided to seek further clarity by taking a break from sending Tuesday meditations for the month of January. I'll still be checking in on our FB group so you can find me there.

In the meantime, the January daily meditations in Finding the Gift are filled with rich prompts for carrying us into the New Year in an intentional way. If you read your book every day for a few years in a row and then set it aside, it may be time to cycle through it again? 

I'll check back in with you end of the month. If you have thoughts to share with me, I always love to hear from you and you can reply directly to this email.

I love each and every one of you and sincerely wish you huge blessings and bold moves in 2025. Cheers to YOUR gifts and a prosperous, joyful New Year! I'll be in touch! xoxo
 

As always, please share your voice in our FTG Readers Group on Facebook. Your hopes, thoughts and dreams matter to me.

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Have a great week, noticing the gifts that matter most. Feel free to share with a friend.

Announcements and painting of the week are below!

Until next time...

To your gifts!

Angela

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