We are officially in the New Year and Muses I am PUMPED! It’s feeling like a good year coming in and I am really feeling optimistic about this year. I started talking about it in my last blog post (which you can read here) and I wanted to elaborate on it a bit more.
2025 feels like it’s finally going to be that “breakthrough” year. I’m working on my plans for the year and it always starts with the beginning of setting your intentions for the year along with your goals, words, vision boards, etc. As of now, I’m working on fine-tuning my vision board and plan on taking things quarter by quarter to minimize on overstressing or overworking myself.
So let’s start with the overall theme of the year.
This year’s theme is Metamorphosis
I chose Metamorphosis as my theme because I truly feel like the time I’ve been going through from late 2022 to the end of last year was like the time a butterfly spends in its cocoon. I spent a lot of time feeling sort of trapped and buried in my grief, negative emotions, anxiety, etc. I’ve decided that I don’t want that for myself anymore and I’m ready to put in the work necessary to get myself to where I want to be. I personally didn’t feel nearly as ready as feel now. I don’t want to feel stuck, I want to feel free. I feel like I’ve undergone a period of rebirth.
I feel like metamorphosis was the perfect term because now that I feel like I’m breaking through, all I can see is that light at the end of the tunnel.
Now, let’s look at sayings for the year, I know many do words but I’m doing words and sayings for extra meaning.
My first saying is “que sera sera.”
Which of course means, “whatever will be, will be.” It’s a saying the originated in the 50s and originally performed by Doris Day in an Alfred Hitchcock film. I’ve adopted this saying as a reminder to go with flow when applicable and to remember that if I can’t change it, there’s no need to stress over it. Whatever is meant to happen, will indeed happen.
My second and last saying is “keep moving forward.”
I got this from one of my favorite movies of all time, Meet the Robinsons, and the way I want to view life is simply summed up by it. I want to continue to move forward instead of always feeling like I have one foot in the past and reminding myself of it. Especially knowing that there is nothing I can do to change the past in the first place. Only thing I should focus on is my present and shaping my future.
These sayings are going to be just as important as the following words as well.
Words are going to serve as well as reminders to work through doing them throughout the year and to keep them in mind when doing anything for myself and for the year.
- Evolve
Evolve (or evolution) fits perfectly with the theme of metamorphosis. To evolve and to grow is important. To learn from previous mistakes and try your damnedest not to repeat the same mistakes and evolve as a person. To evolve into that person you are meant to be.
- Heal
Heal is a word that I’ve been praying on for a long time. I’ve been attempting to work on healing for a while now and every time I start to put a plan in motion that I feel would help me heal, I either don’t keep up with it or I allow myself to fall back into the “pit” again and I don’t even try.
- Romanticize
I know you’ve heard of the phrase of “romanticizing your life,” and I plan to do that all year. I want to beautify and seek the beautiful/good in everything in life. I used to think of the phrase as people who look to make life look aesthetically pleasing at every turn, however, I feel like I now know a deeper meaning.
- Forward
This goes hand and hand with the saying of “keep moving forward” because that’s how important I feel it is. It’s easy to stay in what’s familiar and dwell on the past, but, there’s no growth in that “comfort zone” and in the familiar.
I’m taking this year personal. I’m coming for all the things I’ve continued promising myself that I was going to do and haven’t. Being a mother shouldn’t stop me, being a college student shouldn’t stop me, grief shouldn’t stop me, growing as a person shouldn’t stop me…these things are going to be used as Deni fuel. I’m looking to be the best version of Kayla Denise ever this year.
Speaking of Deni. There’s not just a new era going personally as “Kayla,” but as “Deni” the creative as well.
You may have noticed, before the end of the year, I changed my started changing my socials and talking about what’s going to be new and upcoming in the new year. I plan on still being my own “muse” however, I want to work on not feeling like I’m hiding behind a persona of myself and just being myself. I feel like that’s another reason why I didn’t post on YouTube as much last year even when I planned to. I’ve always prided myself on being 100% authentic and being me and I felt like I wasn’t being that a lot. I felt like a lot of me was hiding behind negative emotions even when I wasn’t expressing them.
I started going by the persona, “Deni,” over a decade ago when I first started this journey as a Blogger. Now, I’m still going to be Deni, but, I’m also putting some respect on my given names of Kayla & Denise as well. I love my nickname/stage name/pen name but I also love “me” being Kayla Denise. So, I’ve officially rebranded the YouTube to “Being Kayla Denise” and all my socials to @heykayladenise. Still the same Muse you love and you all will still be Muses, because I want to push you all to be the Muse in your daily lives, but this new era also feels fresh and necessary. So, make sure if you aren’t following me, to follow me on everything. You can find all my socials on my Beacon here. My blog name won’t change because we’ve been “With Love, Deni” for the longest and it’s still my world because I do send my blogs and everything to y’all with love.
All of that being said; you can expect blog updates weekly again, getting to a point where I’m YouTubing weekly, vlogging, sharing my journey as a Digital Creative (school, freelance, etc,) and of course, weekly playlists. I had started toying around with the idea of a podcast last year but never fully went through with it, I’m shelving the idea for now, but who knows where the future will lead us? For now, I’m focusing on being consistent across my channels/socials that I already have (plus building up Lemon8 which is so fun,) and connecting you all more. Which speaking of, if y’all aren’t part of the Palace of Muses community on IG, join me! I also have one strictly for food called “Musey Foodies.”
Happy New Year my Muses! Have a beautiful day!💋
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