{"id":2903,"date":"2025-01-05T01:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T01:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2025-01-05T20:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:23:38","slug":"2024-the-year-that-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/culture\/2024-the-year-that-was\/","title":{"rendered":"2024: The year that was"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What worked in 2024:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First and foremost, I finally mustered the courage to drive on the freeway. I\u2019d been living with anxiety around it for a while, but I overcame it in 2024. What a relief!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024 was also the year of grounding myself with my authentic self. I realized I don\u2019t need to be the smartest or the best\u2014I just need to be me. It\u2019s been a journey, and I\u2019ve learned that being oneself doesn\u2019t always come naturally due to the baggage we carry from our upbringing. In 2024 I became acutely aware of this and started working through it. There\u2019s been a lot of growth in 2024, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. The internal shifts that were triggered have gained momentum, and I hope they continue indefinitely. I just want to be me\u2014leading with curiosity, grounded in confident humility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the work front, with massive support from the team we successfully implemented a solution that had been in the pipeline for a while. I love what I do. Implementation is definitely my strength, but recently, I\u2019ve been challenged to think more strategically, to be bold, and to step into uncharted territories. The growth that\u2019s come with it has been insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On both a personal and professional level, though, I\u2019m still a work in progress\u2014and I always will be. But I\u2019m committed to being even more disciplined in 2025 and beyond. I want to continue writing, speaking, and becoming more of the person I want to be\u2014a leader with confident humility. As Adam Grant would say, someone who believes in her abilities but also recognizes that she doesn\u2019t always have the right solution or may not even be addressing the right problem. And that\u2019s okay. Doubts are cues to improve my tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s to 2025\u2014a year for more growth, more learning, more compassion, patience, and even more lessons in leadership!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What worked in 2024: First and foremost, I finally mustered the courage to drive on the freeway. I\u2019d been living with anxiety around it for a while, but I overcame it in 2024. What a relief! 2024 was also the year of grounding myself with my authentic self. I realized I don\u2019t need to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[662,663,387,664],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-life","tag-662","tag-663","tag-new-year","tag-old-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2915,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shailiza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}