DECEMBER SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
CATEGORY IS: FINALE
What a golden year 2024 truly has been. About a year ago after a particular therapy session I was inspired by the idea of the feeling of gold and warmth radiating from within.
I wanted my focus for the coming year [2024] to be on cultivating the golden feeling that I had discovered in therapy. I hadn’t set any specific goals for what I wanted to accomplish this year. I did print out a bunch of images from Pinterest that inspired me. I pasted them in my journal and put my mind in the ‘golden’ headspace.
It was also a happy coincidence that the year was 2024 playing into the idea of 24 karat gold.
Through this year my playlist names and themes have been inspired by the golden theme. Not every playlist tied directly back to the visual ‘golden’. Each title has ties to something that represents gold as a concept and feeling to me.
We started the year with 24k, a playlist full of some of my favorites from 2023 with the addition of some new tracks that I felt encapsulated the feeling of 24k.
Going into February, I was incredibly excited to celebrate Leap Day which also happened to be my 24th birthday! Being born on Leap Day is one of the many things that make me unique and I love to celebrate my ‘real’ birthday extra when it does come around. The playlist Leap Year was filled with songs that made me feel connected to my physical and emotional self.
March’s theme of Lucky was something of a manifestation. As someone who is a ginger AND significantly Irish, I wanted to play into the St. Patrick’s day visual of green and a pot of gold. Retrospectively I am not sure I would have labeled March as Lucky, however the playlist featured tracks that inspired the feeling of gold in my veins even when I wasn’t feeling the luckiest.
All That Glitters, isn’t gold. April was a month of recuperation and reflection. I encountered some mental and emotional challenges. I questioned my life, my career, and my future. April taught me resilience and perseverance.
By May I had overcome some mental and emotional blocks and I started to connect more with my core self and my wants. This turned into my fierce playlist, filled with songs that made me feel as such. Through the year I found myself coming back to this playlist when I was in need of a mood boost and to remind myself that I am fierce.
Going into June, I knew I needed a playlist that helped me get in the mindset of power as I prepared to compete at the NAM Utah pageant. I wanted songs that pulsed with confidence and kept the golden feeling going within me.
After the intensity of June and officially reaching halfway through the year, July fell into a bit of a lull. I felt almost lost and disconnected from myself. I was unusually tired and lethargic. It felt like every ounce of my motivation had drained and was nowhere to be found. I had this sense of yearning and wanting. I felt like I could see fleeting glimpses of myself and what I wanted moving forward. I battled with titles for the month, I felt drawn to the word limerence. While it felt close to the vibe I was going for, the meaning of yearning for a love didn’t quite fit with what I wanted. Instead I landed on luminesce. A glittering on the ocean that appears as quickly as it disappears. A sense of a fickle existence only to briefly be witnessed.
I really practiced listening to my bodies’ cues and what I needed throughout July. It was another pause for reflection and self discovery. By the end of the month I started to gain clarity for a potential direction for my life. This inspired August’s theme resurrect. I felt as though a version of me had died and I was entering a new frame of mind and a new era of Savy.
September marks the beginning of my favorite time of year, when the days get shorter, the nights become longer. The air begins to crisp and the call of coziness demands to be answered. Additionally I finally felt like I was moving again, I had new goals and a new vision for the future. I felt elevated and connected to my higher self. Feelings of heavenly and elevation filled my being resulting in the theme celestial.
A contender for my favorite month, October held great significance as it was the last month of preparation before two big events set to occur in November. October was my month of bunkering down and putting myself into preparation mode. Preparation for a new future I was building. I felt that my actions in October would have a major effect on the results not only in November but for months to come. Reverence rang in my soul, a quiet respect for myself and a sort of silence before the storm.
‘Moments in your day that make you feel joy, happiness, peace, or gratitude. The opposite of trigger, Glimmers’. I had chosen the title Glimmer for November because to me it represented seeing the sparkly possibilities of the future. The glimpses into successes I have so long prepared for. Not 24 hours after picking the theme and creating the playlist, did I see the definition for Glimmers on instagram. That confirmed for me November represented this exciting look to the future and the small moments of success, peace, and happiness.
Drumroll please for the finale! December is another contender for my favorite month. It is the close of a chapter and the end of a year. I love to reflect on the year, what I loved, what I have learned, how I have progressed and grown. It’s a month to revel in my successes and wins of the year and a time to look forward. It was additionally fitting that my national pageant finale was December 1st perfectly representing what this month means to me.
I have to be completely honest, this year has been a year of exponential growth for myself. I have learned so much about my own strength. Not only physical strength, but mental and emotional strength. This year has shown me that I really am powerful and can accomplish anything I put my mind to. I am capable and I am strong. I have learned to listen to my core self and honor myself.
After witnessing and experiencing my own power this year, I am excited to take it into the new year and see what I create. For the first time in my life I am having clearer visions and ideas of what I want to do and who I want to become. Questions like ‘what do I want from this life?’ are hot on my mind. Everyday I am getting closer to creating the life I have always wanted. I am so blessed and grateful for this year.
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