Inventory of 2024

Reflecting on the past year is essential for personal growth. We discuss taking inventory of our life goals, the importance of mental and physical health, keeping promises, and nurturing healthy communication as we enter 2025. 

• Importance of self-reflection for growth 
• Assessing mental and physical resources in relationships 
• Balancing promises made to self versus others 
• Planning and executing effective communication strategies 
• Cultivating healthy interactions and thoughts 
• Starting the new year with a focus on emotional health 
• Invitation for listeners to share thoughts and questions

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

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Speaker 2: 0:34

Welcome to a Queen's Opinion. My name is Queen, my voice, my opinion and your listening ear, opinion and your listening ears. Happy Thanksgiving, merry Christmas, happy Kwanzaa and Happy New Year. Welcome to 2025. We are focusing on continuing to build our listening base and getting listeners more involved in our episodes, which means you can submit your questions to the Queen.

Speaker 2: 1:09

Last year around this time we talked about taking inventory of ourselves and this year we will continue the idea of taking inventory. But we must reflect on the previous year 2024, to review whether or not we achieved our goals or fell short last year. Now, in this episode, we are talking about the inventory goals of 2024. Did you accomplish any of your life goals for 2024? Let's start here. What is the point of taking inventory? The purpose has not changed. The purpose of taking inventory of your life is to reflect on last year's communications between relationships with family, friends, co-workers, your partner and yourself. So let's get started by answering the questions to see if we accomplished any of our goals from 2024. We have four goals in 2024.

Speaker 2: 2:15

Let's start with number one. Did we have enough mental and physical assets to deal with each relationship, essence to deal with each relationship? No, I did not have the mental capacity to deal with all my relationships. I was not prepared to have conversations with certain friends and family members. I wanted a change in my life last year, but I went about it the wrong way. I didn't have that mental capacity to just let out my feelings in a way that could be heard and respected and dealt with by other people. I let my feelings out wrong because in the moment I felt fed up, frustrated and my feelings came out wrong. Up, frustrated and my feelings came out raw. This approach cost me dearly and depleted more of my mental inventory than I had expected. So I tell you, if your year felt anything like my 2024 mental state, then we both know we must restock the inventory and move slower and more cautious of our feelings towards ourselves and others in our lives Right now.

Speaker 2: 3:34

January 2025,. I got to take it slow on me. Yes, I said it, I got to take it slow and easy on me. Yes, I said it, I got to take it slow and easy on me. I have used up so much mental storage that I spent no time working on my physical storage in 2024. I pray I can do better in 2025 with my physical strength. I don't like to make New Year's resolutions. I just want to take it day by day, month by month. Let's see what happens. You never know.

Speaker 2: 4:14

Number two did we keep those promises we made to ourselves and others? This is a 50-50 response, or a yes or no response, because we may have kept promises with others, but not to ourselves. This isn't a good thing to do. We seem to put ourselves second and never first. Why? Well, we don't want to disappoint people in our lives To know that you made a promise to someone and was unable to keep that promise due to unexpected circumstances, and now we have to go back and tell that person we can't fulfill the promise, to see their faces and hear the disappointment in their voices again. In other words, it can make us feel like shit. And who wants to sit in those feelings? Not the queen.

Speaker 2: 5:16

We make promises to ourselves saying I am going to buy that new car this year and nothing is going to stop me. No, no, no. I've been saving up for this car and I am ready. You tell yourself I promise you we'll be driving a new car before the end of the year. And now here we are in 2025 and you still don't have a new car. Just like usual, you talk yourself out of feeling bad, saying well, it's okay, I had to help others who needed me more than me having a new car. Okay, I'll be fine. Again, putting yourself second Maybe I need to make less promises going forward. No, no, no, no. Or I should be saying we need to make less promises. You know you made too many promises as well. Yes, you did, I did it, we did it Made too many promises.

Speaker 2: 6:29

Number three did we carefully plan and approach to resolve issues in our relationship? Hell, no, this was awful for me. I realized that when you are venting your frustrations or dislikes about a situation to others, that they will take control of your plan to address the issue with the other party. I had a plan. Yes, I did. Oh, yes, I did. I made a plan to approach several different situations, but the plan didn't go as I intended it to. Somewhere between the planning and execution of the plan, things went awry. Once I approached the person, other people intervened and took over the conversation and the plan went out the damn window.

Speaker 2: 7:24

So, friends, who are supposed to be the listening ear, do just that and listen. Your friend doesn't need you to help them execute the plan of approach to resolve an issue. You are just a sounding board. You know the practice version of how they are going to resolve the issue. Thank you for your help and your support. But don't butt in on an A and B conversation. Just see your way out and use your E. You know ears. That's what I need. Listening.

Speaker 2: 8:08

Did we plant healthy communications and thoughts towards others? They say you can plant seeds and watch them grow. I think I did plant healthy communication seeds and healthy thoughts towards others in 2024. I planted a lot of seeds, but some of them came out defective seeds, but some of them came out defective. My healthy communication seeds grew strong and tall. I made many new friends and the relationships started growing. We both realized we had so many things in common and we wanted to hang out together more.

Speaker 2: 8:46

My seeds of good thoughts towards others. Well, this is where the seas begin to go awry. You know how you think you know somebody and what they may or may not do in certain situations. Well, after hearing how your friend reacted in stressful situations, your thoughts about them were not healthy or good thoughts, but off-centered. So much for the good thoughts towards others. I allowed a specific reaction of a situation to impact my thoughts. I need to stop allowing one reaction to a situation to influence my thoughts. This didn't go well for me.

Speaker 2: 9:36

Here we are now in 2025. I need to restock my warehouse again. This time I'm going to restock willpower, communication and emotion. Like I said before, when you know the type of emotion stored in your body warehouse, you can then manage your inventory better, smarter and wiser. So I know where I'm lacking and that's why I chose these three C's to restock. You can never overstock on communications or emotions, because we are human and we are emotional all the time and those emotions sometimes take over our communication. Therefore, we want to keep a healthy balance of communication and emotions in our storehouse.

Speaker 2: 10:32

Willpower Willpower seeds require three times the average amount of seeds in my warehouse. Willpower is required for me to stay strong and focus on putting me first and sometimes letting others be second. The queen wants to know did you accomplish any of your life goals in 2024? Did you take inventory of your life goals in 2024? Did you take inventory? What do you need to restock in your warehouse for the new year? If the queen can offer you another opinion on the matter to help you restock your warehouse. Shoot me a text message or email me with your question you just might need another opinion and clicking on Get In Touch to leave your feedback or leave a question for the queen.

Speaker 3: 11:44

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Speaker 2: 12:01

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