Bye 2021, we are on the way to the best.

Some people said 2020 was like a gap year to the world, and 2021 was still miserable. But we can not forget that we can always choose the meaning for these events. I prefer to work hard and focus on life’s lessons.

Like the experience we have been through these two years, when we felt to see the light in the dark, things went down again. When we thought the pandemic was gone, the next wave came again. We all feel exhausted.

And for me, I learnt some lessons like the meaning of gaslighting at work, the blessing of letting go and the importance of giving and receiving. Those things make me rethink what my career means to me and how to change the world into a better place. Even though I still feel uncertain and doubt myself, I know everything is figureoutable. 

There are three things below that I appreciate that I try and expect to lead me to a place where I am supposed to be.

The work I made is helpful to someone in this world.

I feel fantastic and fulfilled by it. Imagine that one day you will die and what you will leave to this earth? That is also a reason to trigger me to build up this website. I want to build up my side hustle through writing and leave some valuable materials to this world. The beginning was tough because I chose the most challenging way, including using the second language to write and focusing on unpopular topics on the internet or in the media. When I first saw two referrals, I appreciated them and thought that meant my work could reach someone and benefit them. 

I built up new skills from building up my website and social media.

Honestly, I am still struggling with dealing with WordPress. I just decided to focus on my content creation rather than build up a posh website right now. However, after my projects were on hold and transferred to another department, the knowledge I gained helped me do the new tasks smoothly. You never know what you have done will bring what kind of influence in the future, and I am satisfied to see that growth when I look back at any moment in the future.

I am getting more ideas and awareness of the changes and trends.

Because I am trying to focus on writing some professional articles like fashion management, marketing strategies or self-improvement training, I have to do a lot of research. In this case, I am building up my writing career and starting to pay attention to those little details in the area I work for or the things happening around us daily. I find a lot of connections between self-life, world, health, career, and the earth. Even though I haven’t found a logical way to make them work together, I can dig deeper to see what I get.

I read and listened to many books and podcasts in 2021 about self-care and self-improvement. There are sucks all the time in the world, and I sometimes still feel exhausted from trying to be an optimist. But I still want to focus on what I can do now; even though it is very tiny, I know I will see their significant impact one day.