My new year's resolution is to go with the flow

It might seem like a cop out, but I don’t think it is. For so much of my life I’ve fought the flow, I studied things I didn’t care about, I worked in jobs I had no real interest in, and I put up with people that I honestly didn’t really care for. That is going against the flow. Going with the flow is, I think, listening to the inner voice inside of you. Magnifying it, and not being afraid to admit what it's telling you is scary but true.

Going with the flow might be realizing that since you moved to a country far away from old friends, you will no longer be that close to them and that’s ok. You made a conscious effort to move this far away, and if you’re instead finding your own friends here, that's a great thing. How crazy of an idea is it to prioritize the people you actually see in real life? That sounds like accepting reality and going with the flow.

In a business sense, going with the flow could be not chasing people who don’t want to work with you. Sounds obvious, but it's not intuitive in a growth at all costs world where spamming people with DMs and follow up emails is the norm. What if, instead, we just let potential customers come to us and as a rule only work with folks who like our product. Heck, maybe with the extra saved energy we could splurge out on the customers who really love our product instead of chasing new ones all the time.

I can already tell 2025 is going to be great. How do I know? Because I’m just going with the flow!