In 2025, I Commit To Strategic Flailing.
I have never been here before, and neither have you.
I don’t know what I’m doing. I think 2025 is the year that I am just going to be open about that fact.
Yes, I have knowledge about a lot of things. I have skills and expertise in the things I talk and teach about. And also, I have only just arrived at this precise moment in time. I’m just trying to work with what I’ve got. Aren’t you? Aren’t we all?
Have you seen the K-drama called Because This Is My First Life?
Aside from being totally cute and a great gentle watch for a completely fried nervous system, it’s also based on (what I think is) an honest and human concept:
We are all here on this journey through this life - in this particular body, with these particular people, at these particular locations – for the first and only time. Even if you know you’ve been on this rock before, this time is it’s own thing. This time is singular and unique.
This is why I like to talk about context (honestly, connecting context has consumed my existence at this point.) It’s why I think following your intuition is just as important as doing your research and following the facts.
Our context is ever-shifting and forever-changing. And we are experiencing that context for the first time, every time.
As a person with ADHD, that sounds fun. As a person who is also Autistic, it sounds like the worst all the time. As a Tarot Reader, it sounds like the basis (crisis) for my next reading. As a Creative, it sounds like incredible possibility exists just around the corner. As a person with chronic illnesses, it sounds exhausting.
As a human of Earth, that just sounds like life in time. (But as a person with a Pisces stellium, it all just makes me wish my home planet would call me a transport already.)
Regardless of which lens I look through at any given moment, the truth – my truth at least – is that I am seeing something new each time I look. This truth holds no matter which area of my life I happen to be focusing that lens on. Life is fluid. Change happens around you, but also in you and with you.
I bring with me the lessons and experiences of my past while grabbing for the threads of my future. Each situation presents me with a unique combination of considerations in that exact moment in time. And in this one. And this one, too.
There are things I can control and things I can’t, and often both kinds of things exist within a single undertaking. The experience of that undertaking can be positive or negative or neutral or all of the above.
When it comes to what I can offer you, I do not have the answers. (What are those? The world is on fire, it’s 2025, there are no flying cars, there is no robot-maid, A.I. thinks Glendale and Burbank are in Northern California…)
I don’t have a blueprint or a map. All I have are informed opinions and understandings that might assist you in your own perspective so that you can make the best decision for yourself at this particular branching of the path before you.
So, this is how I’m going to start this year: with a flying leap into a somewhat controlled, wildly ungraceful fall. There will be flailing. There will be contorting and redirecting. And wherever I land is where I land. And then depending on which bones are broken or not, I will go somewhere else, at whatever speed I can, with whatever I deem right to keep carrying.
And as I hurtle toward (wherever,) I will keep thinking of ways to talk to you about finding your context for success, however you happen to define that. I will keep sharing what I discover about the intersection of creativity, intuition and ethical business practices, and specify what I think might be helpful to you as it was helpful to me.
We’re shifting the arcana, after all, you and I, and there’s no way to shift without moving, however awkward and undignified that movement may be.
(What’s that, coming to meet us? I don’t know. Hold my hand. Let’s find out.)
Onward. Love you.
Zoha
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About The Author:
Zoha Abbas is a Writer, Editor, Intuitive Tarot Reader and Business Coach. She aims to explore conversations around self-trust, critical thinking, reality checks and forging your (not so straight) path to success in the grey-area of real life.
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