#new years reflections

[munchkinn-n]

⌒☆ this year i will worry less

⌒☆ this year i will set boundaries

⌒☆ this year i will prioritize healing

⌒☆ this year i will love myself more

⌒☆ this year i will prioritise self care

⌒☆ this year i will prioritise my feelings

⌒☆ this year i will be more kind to others

⌒☆ this year i will be more kind to myself

⌒☆ this year i will make time to enjoy myself

⌒☆ this year i will remove toxic ppl from my life

⌒☆ this year i will make my happiness my priority

[lolajames]

I crave the feeling that comes with the pain of pushing your limits, a religious penance. For who? I don’t know, I don’t think any God cares if I did yoga today or not.

Lola James

[aceleeticklish]

One New Year resolution done! 🥰🥰 If I don’t achieve anything else this year, I can always look back on today🩵🩵

[chilikit]

on december 31, 2021 i was fed up with making new years resolutions and not sticking to them more than a couple weeks, so i decided that my resolution for 2022 was to be so fucking autistic. i am proud to report that i never missed one day! in fact, i think i'll do it again this year

[cuddlyclover]

2022 was a prolific year for art in my life. Many colorful commissions and completed art that I'm proud of and excited about being able to show off.

[3cheerlinding-zebras]

My 2023 resolutions

Get up to more shenanigans

Set up more hijinks

Be more of a silly billy

[holyarchistud]

1/100 productivity challenge + new year’s resolutions :>

Hey babies! Quess, who’s back! I’m starting 2023 in a really good mindset. Also I decided to try 100days of productivity once again, sooo welcome back. 2022 was a mixture of horrible things and amazing things. I’m grateful for all experiences and looking forward to the new ones! How about my new year’s resolutions? Well.. I love doing lists of things, so let’s do it once again!

achieve B1 level in norwegian language;

yoga! 6 times a week;

healthy eating and regular cooking;

resolve my health problems - don’t be scared of doctors....;

finish my master’s degree with satisfaction;

finish my portfolio;

finish courses which I’ve already stared;

regular meditation and trying to reduce stress;

read min. 23 books (my tbr will be posted soon!);

and what... let that year will be as good as previous one!

Yeah, I’m planning to focus on my language and coding courses. I’m still studying, so it’s not that easy to find time for everything and sometimes it frustrates me so hard, that I decided to post my plans in public, to get motivated and organize my time.

productivity challenege: tday - I record tutorial video for myself to help me with one of the exams I have. It was like a huge frog to eat, but it took me like 1,5h. Not that bad, as I expected. Also I did some illustrations for studies and daily schedule. It’s great start! Yesterday I’ve started my yoga streak. Hope that will be everyday activity!

[iseetheworldinmetaphor]

A Beautiful Reflection from Yrsa Daley-Ward’s Newsletter: when you wake up and smell it

I

Time surprises me by doing the thing it has always done. On January Tenth, Twenty Twenty Three, I find myself even further away from the things I have not been considering or handling with care. In some cases, this was very intentional, and I’m relieved. In other avenues, this is cause for concern.

You have to pay attention. You have to choose, and you can’t choose everything. Time surprises us (catches us out) by doing what it has always done.

What new things do you desire? How are they different from this time last year? What would you like to draw closer?

What new elements seem available to you? What fell away?

How will you construct your day/week/month around the new knowledge?

II

On January Ninth, Twenty Twenty Three, I change my phone to grayscale, so it is not too interesting to look at. I have a life to get to, a Spirit to water, and I won’t get there by staring at one-minute videos of other people. Plus, it’s ruining my concentration; you need that to be a writer. It is easy to understand this intellectually, but my fingers keep doing the thing I am fighting against. My brain has made these slippery, unhelpful grooves, and I’m here to show it who’s boss. I start a new book and let new droplets of thought thrill me. I want more poetry in this lifetime, more people saying what they mean,

what we all mean.

It is deep in the afternoon. The day is blueing. I ask my love if her heart ever feels so full she could throw herself on the ground and weep with the unbearable weight of everything. She says, “No, not really.”

We laugh. You’ve got to laugh...

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[cannon-writes]

Goals for this year:

- 4.0 semester GPA (I almost made it last semester, but managed to get one A-)

- Read 10 full books for pleasure (manageable, but also a big leap since last year I only read two in full)

- Dress better (will not go to class in sweatpants or pajamas, as I have been known to do)

- Feel better (self explanatory)

- Edit my novel (already started!!)

- 1000 ELO in chess (that’s a long way to go, but I think I can do it with dedicated study)

I think that’s about it as far as big goals. Hope you all are having a wonderful new year!

[aureliuzrex]

[erinmikail]

quick snippets in no particular order to pair with speedy reflections and wants for more or less of in the new year because New Year’s resolutions are silly to me because every day is a new day dammit!!!

2022

HIGHS:

- sharing more of my loves with my loves, arts, culture and history.

- taking parents to first broadway show

- pushing my comedy further

- world travel with my best friend - first international talk

- better relationship with work

LOWS

- loss of Milo cat + job

- ovarian cysts / gallbladder ick

- seasonal depression is still real

2023

MORE

- arts, comedy and theatre as both a viewer and a participant

- learning new skills

- cooking at home

- travel when possible

- separation of work from self

- consistency

LESS

- projects without passion

- traditions, habits, or hobbies without joy

- nail biting (I know terrible habit)

[lolajames]

But how do I reckon a desire to help the world with a need to not put so much pressure on myself to fix everything in the world immediately. I simultaneously want to hear, “you’re only one person” in the context of one person making a great difference, and one person shouldn’t carry all the burden of the world, there's only so much you can do.

Lola James

[peace-and-light-poetry]

New Adventures

She is currently two decades and seven singular years old Her life expectancy is betwixt 34 and 58 (it's not destiny but still)

She's concluded That she'd have more adventures And that she would likely have them

Alone

Everyone else is either Too busy, disinterested, too far, or what have it But she has a list to complete

In how much time she'd continue To be alive

She's limited in money And transportation But she'll have her adventures

And she'll have new ones Somehow, sometime, or another.

[delappdesignsbyl]

Reflections and Goals

Hello everyone! It has officially been two years since I began this blogging journey and it has continued to be an amazing experience. I’ve been able to help so many more entrepreneurs now that my blog has a robust catalog of posts, this will be #100 (how did THAT happen?). Thank you to everyone who has taken time out of their day to read even one of my blog posts, it is crazy to me that people…

[prettieinpink]

NEW YEAR, NEW ME

( A collab with thee lovely lele @bloombabydoll )

If you want to reinvent and rebrand yourself, or just continue to make positive improvements in 2024, the first thing is to evaluate your current year. 

EVALUATION

Reflect on how things went for you. Was there continuous growth? Were there many difficult times? Did you discover anything major about yourself and so on. Try to summarise your year in (a) paragraph(s) at least. 

Oversee your goals. Which ones you didn’t, did achieve, difficult ones, easy ones and the impacts it had on your life. 

Compare your dream girl then and now. Is your visualisation of your life currently different to the one you have now and why? 

List any major losses or successes you’ve had in your life, and how they have helped you or why it matters to you. 

This evaluation can be as detailed or simple as you like, but as long as you have a decent outline of your year. 

PREPARING & PLANNING

To prepare for 2024, you want to know what you want life to be like in 2024. Something realistic to a point, but still is a growth journey. 

Think of something that you can associate with 2024. This can be a word, a symbol, art, a song, a book, a movie, a place, or even just all of these things. When you think about your goals and your journey, this is your theme. This is something that should relate to your goals or your dream girl somehow. 

For me, I chose a word and a song. My word is growth because, for me, 2023 was a year for just being able to shed my old self which I did achieve however I just felt there wasn’t much growth as an actual person and not just in my environment. 

For my song, it is Mayflowers by Proleters and Taskrok. This song is the epitome of what I would imagine, is the most polished mindset. I would say perfect, but having a perfect mindset is near impossible. I want to have a mindset glow up because I’ve just been hard on myself lately which has caused my confidence to plummet. 

Before we get into the fun part of the preparation stage, we have to do some organisation in our life. I want you to take a look at your daily lifestyle and your habits, and be completely unashamed about this. 

Then categorise these habits into two sections; Leave and Leap. Leave habits are habits that you are leaving behind in 2023, leap habits are habits that are leaping into 2024 with you. 

Any habits that are self-destructive, addictive or generally harmful are leave habits. Beneficial habits and self-building are leaping with you into the new year.

I want you to do the same for people in your life, all environments (school, work, online etc) and anything else you believe needs to be sorted out. 

This works better if you can reason with yourself why it is a leaping or leaving habit, but don’t try to convince yourself a bad habit is good or vice versa. 

Now, I want you to document an honest paragraph about who you are right now. List your bad and good habits, your strengths and weaknesses and your behaviours. This one requires a bit more detail. 

Then, write a paragraph about who you will be in 2024, your dream girl. List her habits, lifestyle, behaviours, mindset, strengths and anything else extra. I’ll explain later but do not include materialistic desires in this your dream girl. Once again, this one also requires details. 

Stemming from those paragraphs, I want you to create specific and achievable goals. SMART goals are best, but I want to introduce you to how I set goals. 

I divide my year into quarters. For each 3 months, I have 3-5 goals for those months. Usually, it’s one from each area of my life. Then, I break down these goals. 

Questions and How They Help 

Why do I want to do this goal - For motivation and commitment. 

How it’ll benefit me - For the sake of improvement. 

How can I involve myself in this goal - To achieve your goal.  

I prefer this method because it is a lot simpler for me, as I am just a young girl and my bigger goals are more in the future in which I’ll utilise SMART goals. 

To create good goals; Make sure they align with your current values and life principles first. Try to avoid creating goals that you have just taken from the internet. Those goals just aren’t it and you most likely won’t follow through with it. 

Be specific. Don’t say you want to eat more healthily, instead say you want to include (a certain group of veggies/fruits) in your diet and reduce the intake of ( food/drink). 

E.g using eating healthy example

I want to eat healthy -> I want to start including foods that boost my immunity system and support my skin while reducing those that have the opposite effect. 

Then break down those quarterly goals into monthly, weekly and daily goals. Make these habits that you can establish in your lifestyle and have a way in which you can refer back to your progress. 

EXAMPLE GOAL BREAKDOWN

Quarterly Goal - Read 6 books.  

Monthly Goal - Finish 2 books.

Weekly Goal - Be or near half way of one book.

Daily Goal - 20 minutes of reading per day. 

AREAS TO SET GOALS IN YOUR LIFE

Academics

Spiritual

Fitness/sport

Health and wellbeing

Mental health

Personal life

Relationships

Hobbies and recreation

Now for the best part- vision boards! Collect all of your favourite images that embody your quarters or the whole year, then put them in one place where you can see them regularly!

Some ideas are a scrapbook, Pinterest boards, mood boards, playlists etc. 

Choose your theme; It can be your healthy girl era, your academic come back or whatever you want. You can have more than two btw.

Use quotes! Then actually say them in your daily life as a way to shift your mindset to reflect said quote.

Include inspirational people. It doesn't even have to be a millionaire or a very well established person, it could be your friends or someone on the internet.

Be imaginative. Your vision board doesn't have to realistic in my opinion, as the whole point of it to me is that viewing it daily and considering it to be part of your life one day allows for you to open up to those opportunities.

Materialistic Wants

I feel obligated to make this a separate section. This section is practically tangible objects that you want.

However, when choosing this said object that you want, mindfully think about why you want that thing specifically.

It doesn’t have to be meaningful, but as long as each thing on that list has got a purpose to you, and will serve you, I think it’s all good!

Conclusion

If you want, you can definitely start implementing habits before January. However, I believe that as long as you go into 2024 at least knowing who you want to be and shedding away any limiting beliefs, you’ll be fine.

Make sure to incorporate some self care rituals into your daily life as well✨

To end this, I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas! And that 2024 they will achieve to close that gap with their current selves and their dream girl selves! 💖🙏

[hungry-hedgehog]

Finding the Way Home the start of a very long journey

it's been a near ten years since he left for home: trudging the trails on the journey of self-actualization. she's been caught up in many a storms, with winds that'll rip a roof off; she knows of tirage and tying oneself to a place's foundation. hunker. hope. the choice between existence or death.

they have shed so many selves, and grieved all of them. their now-self has hands and a body finally big enough and strong enough to take their long-ago-self up into their arms. her long-ago-self was so small, so scared, so shaken. that self has long-ago-wounds that the caretakers never took care of. but he can heal them now. he can take that small, sad self and hold its small hand. he can walk the long-ago-self through the wounds, and teach it how to heal each one. he will accompany that long-ago-self through the selves it will become, until long-ago-self is no longer needed. until the only self is the one that exists right now. the entirety of self.

She is holding space for all of the new things she is growing into. all of the new things he is growing into. they.

a new name. a new body. a new voice. a new way of being.

she is becoming. but there is so much work to do. the work is grueling, but also miraculous. the beautiful way in which humans constantly grow.

he is now finding the way home: undoing the fractures. reconnecting. building and maintaining momentum.

they are brave. they are unrelenting. they are reclaiming. they are finding their way home; home is themselves.