New Years Resolutions
I am one of those people who think if you want change stop waiting for something and just start. That is so much easier said than done I myself know procrastination all too well. However, I try to set small goals to start the year off good and allow myself to have small victories that boost me up. I think this time of year is great to set the reset button as we have just had a high of Christmas and I want to try to keep that good mood into the new year and find new ways to empower myself.
I never make goals like no chocolate for a year…even a week let’s face it that’s never gonna happen with me; instead things like crisps or chocolate every day are a bit easier. I love all things empowering and about making a timeline of the main end goal with loads of little ones to hit to help me stay on track.
One of my goals this year is to balance my work and personal time. I am in love with my uni course, which is always overtaking my life. Going back up to uni this semester I know I am going to feel the pressures and I want to try my best to enjoy uni life and being in our lovely house and spending time with friends I haven’t seen in ages. I plan to have a more structured day and take breaks to try and stop the overbearing feeling that I am never doing enough. Everyone that I’m living with is on my course so I think this will be good as we can all keep each other on task and as well help out when they need to take some time off from work and relax a bit.
Being someone that struggles mentally doing simple tasks can be so hard but I really want to keep on track with my skincare. I have been trying this for so long and has improved so much because I do feel fresher once I’ve done my morning/nighttime skincare I just want to continue this, especially after nights out even if it is taking off makeup… I’m normally asleep before I have the chance. I want to see if the products I use for a long time really help and I have noticed a few lines on my face as I frown when I’m concentrating… a habit I am trying to break; so I am wanting to prevent them from getting any worse - I am only 20!
Self-love. This is something everyone needs a lesson in. Everyone today is programmed to hate themselves and all this shit and I am fed up with the world spitting at everyone so I am taking my life into my own hands and beating the world’s hate. I have my daily affirmations which as so good for feeling empowered and better in my own skin but a new thing I do want to try is looking at myself and rather than finding the imperfections I hate find the parts of me I love and work up to looking at my insecurities and how they are beautiful and learning to accept them. This is going to be hard but I know it will be so rewarding, it is so terrifying I have tried a lot but I am on an empowered and feel-good high so a perfect time to start I think!
This year is a big year a lot of my friends are graduating from uni, my mum turns 50, my uncle is 60, my grandparent’s 60th wedding anniversary, my brother’s wedding, my puppy turns 1 and my 21st! It going to be a busy year I even start my final year at uni which is crazy and it’s gonna be expensive and full of chaos. I plan to be ahead of all of this by planning things in depth and getting on top of ideas and minimising the stress that I need to avoid because I’ll be thinking about dissertations and stressing about celebrations is not what I am going to be doing in 2023. Being organised does so natural to me but this year I am levelling it up making a year, monthly, weekly and daily plans to keep on top of everything this year is going to throw my way. I am getting all my cards for these early and keeping them in my card folder with generic cards just in case there’s a birthday any of my family needs a card for. I am planning the gifts early and thinking ahead for anything I need to prep. I always am stressing so much this is the year I am not letting anything else get to me and tackling everything because I need to get on this train of relaxation and lose as much stress as I can it just isn’t healthy.
So, these it is my main goals for the year and I will be having this page staring at me to motivate me because I have said it to everyone so this is a good pressure to have to keep up with my goals as they are important to me. I think this is the year we all start focusing on what is good for us and ditching the things that as so damaging to us, start taking control of your life and making it your dream.