in 2024, I vowed to change. I can finally say for the first time in a long time, that I am proud of myself. this is how you can feel the same, in 2025. I believe in you https://linktr.ee/thezurkieshow
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We have reached the end of 2024. Isn't it awesome? Maybe. Maybe some of us feel like this year didn't really bring a whole lot, to be completely honest. We didn't feel like there was a lot of excitement in our lives. Maybe we are looking back at the year and thinking, man, that was a whole lot of mid. I want you to know one thing. It's okay because 2024 was practice bro. 2025 is our year.
Maybe a year ago today, I was in my childhood bedroom in Palatine, Illinois. And the one thing I wanted out of my 2024 year was to be consistent, to finally do something that I felt like I could show up for every single day. And it took me the entire year. Until in November, I finally decided, you know what? I'm not going to care what anybody thinks.
I'm going to change the entire way I approach making videos. I approach my life. And I'm going to focus on creating The Zerky Show. And that single thing has changed my life. It has given me a new purpose. I wake up in the morning and I think, how can I make the best episode of The Zerky Show every single day? Some days...
i fall short some days i record and i think this sucks this is bad i wouldn't even watch this but i do it anyways because that's just my self-doubt talking the main thing is that i show up day in day out i show up and i treated 2024, like it was practice. I told myself, you know what?
Even if I don't succeed, even if I don't get to a position that I want to be in, I just want to prove to myself that I can do it. And that is the only person you need to prove anything to. Sure, like proving your ex wrong when you have a glow up is awesome for like a day. for like a week. What is even more awesome is proving to yourself that you could do it. It's a beautiful thing.
So in 2025, what do you want to prove to yourself? What do you want to prove to yourself? Is it the fact that you can make the first team in something? You can make the starting 11 in on your high school soccer debut?
Is it that you can finally design that jacket you've been telling all of your friends you're going to make so they can support your clothing brand, your new clothing brand that you're coming out with? Is it finally telling somebody that you have feelings for them? What are you going to do in 2025 to make yourself proud? Because I am proud of myself this year.
I had my shortcomings, I had my failures, but I'm proud. Damn, I did a good job. Damn, Daniel, I did a great job. Do I have things I can improve on? Uh, yeah. Like, a lot of things I can improve on. Probably more than I want to admit. But that's okay. Because I know that I can show up for myself. And that is a big thing. Oh, hello. Say hi.
There's a dog. A new dog just spawned. What's up, man? Oh, nice. And he's peeing. That's beautiful. He just peed in front of me. That's gorgeous. And I remember the feelings I had in 2023 on New Year's because I spent it alone and I did it on purpose because I really wanted to give myself time to think and reflect. And I felt disappointed. I felt really disappointed in myself.
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