We're one month into 2025 already. If you were to write a One-Pager summarising your month, what would it say?
My January has been the most incredible start to what will be a year of huge inner transformation.
So much has shifted. I'm not the same person I was coming into 2025. I’ve rewritten my script and raised the minimum standard for the life and work I'm creating.
By the end of this year, I know I'll be looking back in awe at the person I will have become, and if you're reading this, you'll have a front-row seat to my journey as it unfolds.
What I know for sure is that my growth won’t be linear. I’ll experience quantum-level jumps, followed by periods of stillness, and no doubt some stumbles and backward steps.
But I believe I’m ready for it. The last time I felt this level of commitment to a path was ten years ago when I first decided I wanted to move to Australia from England.
I told my boss on 5 January 2015 that I wanted to be living and working in Australia by the end of the year. He was relieved because he thought I was quitting, instead, I’d just given him a year’s notice!
When you're in alignment with your future, things move fast.
I was offered a new role in Australia less than two months later, in early March 2015. I got my work visa two months after that, and by the end of June, I had landed in Sydney to start my new life.
What I knew then is what I know now: things move incredibly fast when you have no split energy about where you're heading.
I am 100% certain I am choosing, and have chosen, a completely different way of working and living than ever before. I’m embracing creator life. Perhaps 25 years later than I would have if I had ignored the collective script we’re all told to follow.
It feels liberating to powerfully choose what I want to do, when I want to do it, with whom, and where. For years, I waited for a future where I’d have the time and financial freedom to live the life I dreamed of.
Then, when I turned 45 last December, I realised my future dreams were never going to come true unless I decided to make them my reality.
In my early twenties, I knew I wanted to retire at 45. I didn’t want to work away the best years of my life, only to look back in my 60s wishing I had done more when I was younger.
Even at university, I sensed this. While studying business and financial services, many of my close friends pursued investment banking jobs, completing their degrees part-time. Me? I decided I didn’t want to be a millionaire if it meant I’d be burnt out by 30, and miss living my 20s fully!
Ironically, I still fell into the trap of following the script we’re all fed, chasing money in my career so I could create the life we’re told we should want.
Get married. Buy a house. Have kids. Work harder. Go on holidays. Buy nice things. Work until your 60s or 70s. Retire. Enjoy your money. Be happy.
I’ve been unlearning that script for years, but it’s fascinating how deeply ingrained it is.
And this week, I had a realisation: in some ways, I have retired by 45.
I no longer work out of necessity; I work because I want to. I’m choosing how I spend my time and only doing what lights me up. I decide when I work and when I don’t. I have the time and financial freedom I never allowed myself to enjoy before, always living in scarcity, fearing it wouldn’t be enough for retirement or old age.
This week I saw the breaking news about the Washington airplane and helicopter crash that killed 67 people, followed by another plane crash in Philadelphia. A stark reminder that tomorrow is never guaranteed.
We all know this, but we live in blissful ignorance, continuing the same routines, hoping one day we’ll finally arrive at the destination we’ve been striving towards.
Here’s the thing: the destination doesn’t exist. The journey is all we have.
And we must decide: whose script are we following? The one written by our soul for a journey of the heart, or the one we’ve unconsciously followed, unaware it was never ours?
Every day, we make choices. Are yours filling your heart, or draining its life force?
As I wrote my One-Pager for January, I saw how much I’ve changed this month simply by making different choices. I’m embracing creator life, later than I originally wanted, but in alignment with my life’s timing and my levels of consciousness.
I’m consciously writing my own script for the story of my life. And if you’ve been reading Glin & Tonic for any length of time, you’ve seen this shift unfold.
Since July last year, I’ve been writing One-Pagers inspired by Dr Benjamin Hardy, author of 10x Is Easier Than 2x. This year, I’ve decided to share them with you, raw, unfiltered, and real.
Unlike these weekly heart-to-hearts, my One-Pagers will be behind a paywall, available only to those who subscribe. I already give so much of myself and my journey for free, and what I know for sure is that people will always take from you if you let them.
We all have a contribution to make in this world. Mine is sharing what I’m learning so that, in some small way, I help others navigate their own journey.
This is my work. This is what I’m creating. If you find value in what I share, the exchange will feel fair. If you don’t, then it’s not for you.
I’ve also decided to share the journey of writing my next book behind this paywall. I’m practising writing as if no one will ever read my words, so I can access the deeper truths I’ve never been brave enough to voice before.
True inner transformation doesn’t happen by playing in the shallows. It requires diving deep and facing the shadows that scare you.
2025 is the year I transform myself to the point of no return, I’ve already started, and I can’t wait to meet the person I’m becoming.
And now, I turn it over to you: Are you ready to write your own script?
Keep going and keep growing.
Love Glin x
P.S. Three wins from my week:
1. Book Outline - After spending a month unable to write my book because it felt forced rather than flowing, I finally gained clarity on the outline and chapter content this week. February is the month I start putting pen to paper and letting this next book flow through me.
2. Clarity on my path forward - Embracing being a creator this month has felt strange because it’s a new way of being for me. This week, I realised that my personal evolution is taking me from Confusion to Illumination, and that the path to illumination is patience and learning to embrace uncertainty. A powerful realisation that will serve me well in the year ahead. Flow can't be forced.
3. Confirmation I'm on the right path - I randomly came across Blake Mallen on Instagram this morning and followed the thread to his TED Talk. Here’s the link to Shift the Script - Why your 'supposed to' no longer works. The universe really knows how to send signs when you’re ready to receive them.
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