Editor's Note

Hi Everyone and welcome to 2025!

I am actually writing this on New Year’s Eve but by the time you read this note it will already be 2025.

The fireworks will have zipped into the sky casting their glittery glow to the delight of every audience across the world. Millions of champagne corks will have been popped, warm embraces shared and the jubilance of a saying a fond farewell to 2024 will be complete.

In fact, by now, the hangovers will likely have subsided, the party poppers cleared away and a fresh New Year will have emerged, one full of hope, promise and of course . . . expectation.

I’m not sure about the rest of you but my 2024 was fabulous – probably one of the best years of my life actually.

I got married and had all my family together for the first time in years.

Professionally, it was an amazing year too. We launched a new newspaper, hosted a night with the Premier and I even said goodbye to my fear of public speaking!

But now that it is 2025 (well almost!), I have to confess I feel a bit nervous.

What if this year is not as good as the last? What if my life suddenly crumbles? What if . . .?

But today I have decided to let that trickle of doubt and the worry subside.

Instead, I am focused on being fulfilled on the inside, even without the glamour and allure of external happiness.

I will concentrate on nurturing that safe, stable and unshakable happiness within, and let the rest unfold as it will.

As we head into a brand-new year, I wish you and your family a positive, fulfilling and healthy 2025, a year that brings you joy both inside and out.

Rach

“Feel the fear and do it anyway” (Susan Jeffers)

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