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Sunday Letter: 01.08.23

January 8, 2023 By Talya Tate Boerner 20 Comments

Dear Sunday Letter readers,

Aren’t we fortunate to be welcoming another new year!? I’m optimistic about 2023 and looking forwarding to what the months ahead will bring. And yay! The days are getting a tiny bit longer. It’s hard to tell right now, but it’s true.

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I began planning for 2023 weeks ago. For me, writing down dreams and thinking about goals for the months ahead is like heading out on a road trip to someplace fabulous, frothy latte in the cupholder, seatbelt securely fastened.

Looking in the review mirror is also part of my planning process. Successes and failures, hits and misses, the good and bad—they all brought me to this point. I don’t dwell on yesterday or lament the things I never did. Instead I celebrate the yays and question whether those nays are worthy of this year’s goal list.

And I leave room in my itinerary to take little side trips.

my One Little Word for 2021

January 3, 2021 By Talya Tate Boerner 6 Comments

I’ve been thinking about my One Little Word for 2021. Last year, I didn’t give much thought to it, and I worry my lack of a real word led to such a crazy 2020. Not that I believe my One Little Word can affect the whole big world. Ha.

But I do believe choosing a word has kept me more focused in prior years.

In past years, I’ve chosen believe, balance, focus, savor, grow, refresh. Last year, here’s what I said about it:

I have no resolutions for 2020. Really, I’ve not thought about it for even a second. For the past several years, I’ve chosen One Little Word instead of a resolution—a word to focus myself around.

I’ve not thought of a word for 2020 either.

2020 may be a go-with-the-flow year for me. I’ll try to be kind, keep a positive attitude, and be open to whatever comes my way. Within reason.

Yikes.

See? I said I would be open to whatever comes my way and, man alive, I was tested big time.

Words = Power. For real, y’all.Continue Reading

Sunday Letter – End of the Decade Edition!

December 29, 2019 By Talya Tate Boerner 11 Comments

Dear Sunday Letter friends,

Welcome to today’s Sunday Letter – End of the Decade Edition. Sounds both ominous and celebratory, doesn’t it? But in the spirit of optimism, I’m expecting 2020 to tip the scale on the positive side. Wishful thinking. I truly believe in it.

But seriously. 2020? JUST YESTERDAY, I worked at State Bank & Trust in Dallas where the year 2000 loomed over us, unknown and questionable. We fretted and plotted and attended monthly Y2K planning meetings to prepare our computers and ourselves for possible issues when loan and deposit systems rolled from 1999 to 2000. I carried a 3-inch thick Y2K Emergency Manual in the trunk of my car! It was a requirement for all bank officers…

But alas, people way smarter than I wrote code and patched computers. As far as I know, Year 2000 arrived and no one’s money disappeared as we traveled into a new century.

And now here we are.Continue Reading

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