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Hello Reader,
Are you settled well into the new year? I hope so because we're now already half through January.
While I am focussing on writing this last submittable draft of my PhD for the next 2 to 3 months - it's going really well! - I'm starting to think beyond PhD. Currently, it takes all of my energy dedicated to income generation and career (I also have some dedicated to family, health and friends). But since it looks promising that I will submit in the first half of 2024, it's time to plan further.
I have some fabulous plans for Exploring Happiness. Most importantly, I want to return to regular content sharing with either a podcast episode or blog post on my website. My social media has been very quiet but I have wonderful ideas to share valuable happiness strategies. I've closed my Exploring Happiness Together Instagram account and consolidated all my social media in my @anjawendt Instagram. I'll also close down the Facebook page - too many places, can't serve them all appropriately.
Then I will dedicate a lot of time to building my Exploring Happiness course. I have done major work last year before launching it. But I bunkered down and did a lot more reading, learning and reflecting. The course has matured and will be so very much better than the first version. It'll be fun to draft it all up, record and put it together. I can't wait!!!
Once it's ready, I'll offer a few places here, to you as my loyal email subscriber, for a very discounted rate. Watch out for that offer if you're interested in participating!
There's more planning going on but let me first take care of this PhD, so I'm not just talking about what I want to do but actually do it. That's usually a promising happiness strategy ;-)
Anja
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Hi! I'm Anja. I explore happiness.
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