Happy New Year! I hope you and your family are well and staying safe! My boyfriend and I stayed in as usual to be safe and to enjoy each other’s company. Before the New Year’s, I usually try to clean my space as much as I could and for this year, I did a deep clean. I vacuumed every corner – under my bed, under the couch, in hidden crevices, and even in my closet. I threw away old junk that I had been accumulating over the years and reorganized my space to be more accessible. I even found myself doing the laundry on New Year’s Eve, which isn’t a conventional thing to be doing, but hey, I had clean clothes for the New Year’s! It felt really good to come into the new year with a literal clean start. Another thing that my boyfriend and I had started doing since last year was writing down all the negative attributes/wishes for the next year and burning it. There’s something cathartic about releasing all the hurt and watching it burn. Don’t worry, we did it in a safe spot! One thing that I had written last year that still applies to this year was letting the ashes of the previous year help us grow into a better year. I’ve been trying to emphasize with myself over the years that small progress is still progress! It’s commendable!
Last year was full of growth and even though, I didn’t achieve what I had specifically wrote, I believe that I did make a lot of changes, which is the ultimate goal. I made healthier choices with my diet and I did regular workouts resulting in me losing 11 pounds. I feel great about my body now! I didn’t visit 5 new parks in the city, but I did fly solo for the first time and went out of state 3 times! My sleeping habit was rocky (to be honest, it always has), but let’s just say taking melatonin gummies helped me feel sleepy at more appropriate times although I admit that I have pulled an all-nighter one night. It’s still a work in progress, but I’m not going to beat myself like I usually did.
As usual, I’ve written out my resolutions for this year and I’ll be sharing with them with you below. I may or may not add more, but I’m confident that these are the goals I want to try to focus on this year. I will also be linking my previous year’s resolutions if you’re also interested in reading them.
2022 Resolutions:
- Heal my inner child – mindfulness, playing with toys, renewing the wonder and awe I had, seeking closure from my past hurt.
- Submit my application to Grad School
- Do yoga 2x a day
- Be more active – play more Pokémon Go as a way to motivate myself to do an outdoor activity with my boyfriend and in general, enjoy the outdoors.
- Immerse myself into my crafting hobbies
- Go to bed before 2AM and wake up before 11AM – rather than giving myself a strict or too loose of a goal, I believe I’ve found a better and more realistic middle ground that would accomodate to my needs.
- Come up with a consistent routine to stick to
- Learn the alphabet backwards
- Learn more about geography
- Break my unhealthy nail cutting/picking habit.
Some of them are easily achievable, but I wanted to have a mix of long-term and short-term goals, so I won’t feel like they’re too far fetched. I’ve strayed away from having ideas as my goals and gravitated more towards goals that could be achieved through an action. Also, my 8th, 9th, and maybe 4th goal could be related with my 1st goal, which by the way, these goals are just in the order of whenever I thought of them.
Thank you for supporting my blog! It’s great knowing that I have people reading this blog for so long! Stay safe and healthy!
Alice
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