A Letter To Me.

By Glory Ebengo - CouchTalksWithGlo

Happy New Year My Loves.

How are we all. Welcome to the New Year. I pray that this year is a year of growth in all areas of your life. That it will be a year that defeats all the past years. This year is for you.

In this episode of CouchTalksWGlo I will be speaking about YOU the reader. There are just some questions that I’d like to pose in order to get your head thinking.

Are you ready?

- How was your year last year?

- Which factors in your life do you feel were good in 2022?

- Which factors in your life do you feel were bad?

- How satisfied am I with each area of my life?

- What feels the most meaningful and purposeful? What doesn’t?

- What’s going well? What isn’t going well?

- What are my greatest joys?

- What is causing me the most stress?

- How am I spending my time and energy?

- What feels unsettled?

- In general, how am I feeling about life right now?

- What dictates my current decision-making process?

- What am I most proud of?

- What is usually going on in my head? (thoughts, emotions, inner-critic)

I asked you these questions simply to get your head thinking. Whilst having an overview of my year, I realised that I never stopped to ask myself these important questions. I just let life consume me. However, I need a change for this year. I am imagining the woman who I will be at the end of 2023 and that gives me the zeal to look at each factor of my life and evaluate and see where my behaviour and attitude may adjust in order for a successful and more better year for me.

What did I learn from answering the questions above?

1. I Have Been Called And I Have Answered

I have mentioned this a few times. I never wanted to write in the first place. I never wanted to speak in the first place. I was never transparent; I did not know how to communicate effectively, and I must say it is a massive area of struggle till now. I did not want to do the work of God but one day He called, and I answered and that has been have been the best decision for me. Continue to answer that call.

2. It’s a ‘State’ and not a ‘Season’

When I feel as if I am going through something, I have the tendency of longing it out. I look at timelines, I look at whys, give me the stats I am looking at that because I like to understand. What I have learnt is that not everything is to be understood. I should stand up and rise and continue. Sometimes we delegate temporary trails and make them seasons when we have not been called to stay there.

3. You are not who you were and that’s okay

I have had to come to the agreement that I have changed and that’s okay. With changing as an individual, so does everything else. My environment had to have been the biggest change. What I still struggle with is appreciating that even those around me might still address me as someone who once was but I should be gland in the person who is and is yet to be.

4. It was always going to be okay

This year I have been tested in ways that I have not been able to fathom but God pulled through EACH AND EVERY TIME. It was always going to be okay.

And you?

Who will you be.

Thank you for tuning into another episode of Couch Talks With Glo.

Glo x