{"id":6690,"date":"2025-12-29T11:49:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:49:36","slug":"2025-next-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6690","title":{"rendered":"2025: Next Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>When it comes to aspirations, it&#8217;s not about ideas. It&#8217;s about making ideas happen. What&#8217;s your next step?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3311\">2010<\/a>, it was about dream making.  In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3812\">2011<\/a>, it was about sticking to my boundaries.  In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4140\">2012<\/a>, it was about being true. In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4561\">2013<\/a>, it was about embracing fear. In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4974\">2014<\/a>, it was sitting my butt down and writing. In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5599\">2016<\/a>, it was about leading. In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5789\">2017<\/a>, it was about persistence. In <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5883\">2018<\/a>, it was about seeing the big picture. In <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?m=201912\">2019<\/a>, it was about moving on (on my own terms). In <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6076\">2020<\/a>, it was about valuing the things (and people) I love. In <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6252\">2021<\/a>, it was about deciding the next thing. In <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6357\">2022<\/a>, it was about execution. In <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6528\">2023<\/a>, it was about building the life that I want. In <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6647\">2024<\/a>, it was THE surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Well, despite the entire year of bad things, it&#8217;s the LA house. Not technically mine. At all, really. But it&#8217;s complicated. But in terms of its emotional presence in my mind, it&#8217;s huge.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many things in it\u2014the business of life, there&#8217;s damage in it, there&#8217;s Chris&#8217; memories all in it, the feeling of what was and what it could be. I didn&#8217;t know any of it.<\/p>\n<p>I would rather let it go than to spend the time to extract the value in whatever way possible. <\/p>\n<p>I was asked whether I had the patience. Maybe initially. But now it&#8217;s like&#8230;I see the time that we had, the time not to actually have this lingering around. Can it just go?<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s complicated. It&#8217;s woven in the relationships and the words that aren&#8217;t spoke. It&#8217;s woven and deeply stuck in the worlds that we are. What will this be like next year? Hopefully progressing if not done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to aspirations, it&#8217;s not about ideas. It&#8217;s about making ideas happen. What&#8217;s your next step? In 2010, it was about dream making. In 2011, it was about sticking to my boundaries. In 2012, it was about being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=6690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6691,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}