This is my more woo woo version of the New Year’s posts. It’s more about the energy that I want to have in the new year and want to experience in the new year.
I think this is also always my shortest post of the year as the images that I pick tell most of the story.
To me these images suggest success (as measured by our capitalist society, of course), warmth, care, professionalism. Potentially a little girl boss? which I know is passé and it’s not really what I’m going for. But well-dressed, well-groomed, fun, fit, and feminine are basically what I am going for this year.
The one thing that I do find intriguing about these images that I was drawn to is that I would say that they all show a certain amount of wealth/conspicuous consumption? Or maybe privilege is the better word? The products that exemplify self-care and beauty, the free time to workout and go to museums. It is intriguing me that in a year when I have expressed that I want to and know that I really do want to pay off debt and save up money I have selected images that require spending a fair bit of money. So I’m going to do some thinking about that.
The other area is kind of my “career-woman era”, I’m still very much a “young professional” but I’m also not a total newbie to the corporate world anymore. So this is my time to kind of sort out what kind of professional I want to be, find my mentors and really sort myself out. A lot of my 20s was figuring out what I don’t want to do, translator, poultry geneticist, vet/vet tech, epidemiologist, etc. and now that at least have it narrowed down to a field I can start to narrow it down even more to my professional personality if you will.
So that is it for 2023 vibes. For some reason I have a feeling that there may be a vibe shift partway through the year, I guess we’ll see what happens this year and what we will need to do to adjust to what the world throws my way.
Laura
Thoughtful Millennial 
One thought on “2023 Vibes”