Lee's blog: And That's a Wrap...

The year is almost at an end, or it already is depending on when you are reading this.

The trend of wrapping up the year is definitely not a new one but this year it seems to have exploded.

It started rather early with the sharing of peoples Spotify wrapped all over Instagram, some giggles as some of the cooler people blamed their kids for their most played songs being Taylor Swift or the funnier excuses for why their listening hours were in the thousands!

Then I noticed other companies jumped on the trend – I had a Strava wrapped notification highlighting rather bluntly that I am a fair-weather runner. Unlike Spotify the sharing of Strava stats by others definitely made me feel less accomplished.

And more recently it seems like the wrapped year was coming from all sides, my daughters school sent s 2025 wrapped video, my work issued one and already my friends have started the Instagram reels where they announce, “And so the 2025 season comes to an end….” with a montage of picture highlights.

It’s fun. And indeed, wrapping up the year in a nice bow is great. Looking back chronologically been able to pinpoint the key achievements of the year is lovely – X was the year I graduated, Y was the year I got married, Z was the year we bought our first house. However, it doesn’t allow space for the messy middle of the multiyear processes, the years where the greatest achievements were less instagramable and more A was the year I remembered non uniform day, B was the year I got halfway through a workplace instruction document! I can see why there’s a franticness at year end to wrap it up, put a bow on it, and my personal favourite give it to somebody else!

And so, in this last push to the end of the year where everything seems more urgent and demanding I try to remember, and you should too that “Sounds like a January problem” is a full sentence and should be used with aplomb. Not everything needs to happen before the fireworks. Some tasks can roll into January fashionably late.

Happy New Year!

Lee is a mum, accountant, coffee lover and sometimes runner. She is married, has two young girls and works mostly remotely for a London based bank.