2024 in Review: Indie Author Edition

Jumping on the yearly reflection train.

It was a pretty good year if I do say so myself. And though sometimes these kind of wrap up posts make me a bit anxious, this is also a chance to reflect and celebrate the past year while also making new exciting goals for the next.

I’ve always been bad at being proud or celebrating myself. It is easy when someone else is succeeding around me. I pump them up. I tell them how amazing they are and that they are doing great. But me? Well, it’s hard to celebrate yourself when you keep thinking about everything else you have to do.

The next deadline. The next task. The next thing that feels urgent and important. Like, the future hinges on every mistake and ever mini success.

For a long time, I never paused to reflect on the progress I had made. The small victories were always overshadowed by the bigger mountains still ahead. I’d move quickly from one accomplishment to the next without even giving myself a moment to breathe. But lately, I’ve started to change that.

Or at least I want to.

And 2024 was a year of the best kind of change.