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Hello apartment friends, it’s me LESLIE MATHIS with the Multifamily Streamlined podcast. As 2022 comes to an end it only seems appropriate to take a moment to reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. It’s funny I half wrote last weeks podcast and never finished it due to poor planning, travel, and prep for the holidays. Okay fine the last part is not exactly true. If you know me I don’t prep a lot of the holiday. I gave that up more than 20 years ago because I hate the commercial hustle and bustle. Trust me I love Christmas and the true meaning of the holiday and I don’t miss an opportunity to gather with friends and family around the table. See that’s what is so special for me not to mention this year Christmas fell on a Sunday which is my all time favorite! I do love the excitement of how my kids prepare for the holiday and how they get my mom and dad to give them money to shop at the dollar store for gifts for everyone. This year my little was the only one that did that but again I love it and I love that no one felt guilty they didn’t get the other a gift. In my heart I believe everyone knew with school only getting out 2 days before the holiday time just snuck up on everyone. I loved that no one complained about going to church two days in a row and I love that honestly I think everyone got along. I love that my oldest wanted Chinese food for Christmas Eve dinner and lasagna for Christmas dinner and everyone was thrilled with the idea. I love that we had the opportunity to have our annual Christmas party on Friday night vs. the Sunday before like we normally do. Honestly the whole experience just filled my heart and cup in a way I don’t recall in the past. I feel it was the true meaning of filling your cup where it overflows to others vs. filling your cup and then pouring into others which as Kristina Watts shared just leaves you with an empty cup. You all that is so draining and that is what leaves us exhausted and burned out. You see we have to flip the script and learn to pour into ourselves daily so we can share that blessing with others. We have to learn that things are not going to look the way we plan – I mean almost never. During my 7 years of being the owner of Streamline Multifamily Group that might be the biggest lesson I have ever had and when I go back through life and connect the dots I can see the same thing. As I sit here and write this podcast I can’t even think of one thing that has turned out just as I planned. I mean big thing!  I am sure that there are little things but again in this moment I can’t think of a big thing. For me this week is a lot of prep for 2023 and finishing out 2022 with a clean to do list. I find the weeks when most are off are my most productive. I have high hopes for those projects that have lingered on the list because they need 30 to 45 minutes of uninterrupted attention. As I prepped for today and the podcast and as the thoughts of things often look different than the plan I thought of even my marriage. Our anniversary is New Years Eve and wow how we thought that was going to be so special to always celebrate on New Years Eve it definitely looks different. We have found ourselves going out on the 30th to avoid crowds not to mention how tough it is to get a reservation on the 31st. Many of those years I spent New Years Eve with just the kids because my husband worked at night when the economy crashed in 2008 and no one was building apartments. Those aren’t complaints but just the reality and proof things just often do not go as planned. We tend to glorify the event, the plan, the whatever but we just can’t predict all of the future and we need to learn to adapt and embrace the experience. Just another reason we talk about pivoting here so much. So if your 2022 sucked don’t let it get you down or to a place you aren’t closing out strong or preparing and starting 2023 off on the right foot. Somewhere along the way in the suck there has to be some good – a b

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