Image.Hello there lovelies,
Well, 2010 is over. I rang in the New Year with good friends, glowsticks, scotch and crazy costumes. Twenty-ten probably wasn't my favourite year, but it was an improvement on 2009. In 2009 a whole lot of bullshit caught up with me - social anxiety, career doubts, self-esteem issues, my miscarriage, poor self-confidence. I was having panic attacks, and in a pretty bad place mentally. I started seeing a psychologist, then eventually decided to take a year off from my university degree to clear my head. I also started a little blog to give me something to focus my energy on.
I spent 2010 working full-time in retail - and working full-time on myself, corny as that sounds. With a little help from all of you out there in the blogosphere I've learned so much about myself. I've gotten back in touch with what I want, what I need and how I feel. I've learnt ways to help myself out when I'm having a bad day, and ways to focus my energy on the important things. I have grown so much as a person over this year, both as an individual and with The Boyfriend. I've found a bunch of new directions that I want to explore. I don't want to lose my momentum. I want to keep on growing. For me, 2011 is going to be the year of more. I want to do more, experience more, be more. I want my life to be bigger and better than ever before. These are my big goals for the year ahead:
There you go. I know they aren't huge goals. But usually, I find myself making too many huge, vague goals and end up sticking to none. So this year I'm trying making a few large (but manageable), specific goals and seeing how that turns out. I have to keep reminding myself that I am only 22, and that I don't have to do everything at once. I feel like young people are under a lot of pressure to "go somewhere". But I know where I'm going - how long it takes isn't really an issue.
Happy New Year everyone! I hope this year is the best one yet!
Until next time, xo.
Well, 2010 is over. I rang in the New Year with good friends, glowsticks, scotch and crazy costumes. Twenty-ten probably wasn't my favourite year, but it was an improvement on 2009. In 2009 a whole lot of bullshit caught up with me - social anxiety, career doubts, self-esteem issues, my miscarriage, poor self-confidence. I was having panic attacks, and in a pretty bad place mentally. I started seeing a psychologist, then eventually decided to take a year off from my university degree to clear my head. I also started a little blog to give me something to focus my energy on.
I spent 2010 working full-time in retail - and working full-time on myself, corny as that sounds. With a little help from all of you out there in the blogosphere I've learned so much about myself. I've gotten back in touch with what I want, what I need and how I feel. I've learnt ways to help myself out when I'm having a bad day, and ways to focus my energy on the important things. I have grown so much as a person over this year, both as an individual and with The Boyfriend. I've found a bunch of new directions that I want to explore. I don't want to lose my momentum. I want to keep on growing. For me, 2011 is going to be the year of more. I want to do more, experience more, be more. I want my life to be bigger and better than ever before. These are my big goals for the year ahead:
- Stick to an exercise regime - I want to be exercising at least 5/7 days every week. I also want to attend Zumba classes every Wednesday night, go to a Fresh Meat intake for roller derby, and find a martial arts class to take.
- Take short courses - I want to take a number of fashion design/photography related short courses this year. Including, but not limited to this, this, this and this. I want to build towards studying full-time once The Boyfriend and I have our debts paid off. I also want to expand my crafty horizons by learning entirely new things, like knitting, crochet and jewellery making.
- Spend less money on clothing - I am giving myself a $100 a month budget for clothes shopping (at the moment I'm spending $50-$60 a week, so it's a significant cut). I'm sick of having a wardrobe full of things that I don't really need, and don't really wear. I want to use this budget to make myself consider my purchases more carefully. I also want to make the items that I can, buy more handmade things and go second-hand shopping more often.
There you go. I know they aren't huge goals. But usually, I find myself making too many huge, vague goals and end up sticking to none. So this year I'm trying making a few large (but manageable), specific goals and seeing how that turns out. I have to keep reminding myself that I am only 22, and that I don't have to do everything at once. I feel like young people are under a lot of pressure to "go somewhere". But I know where I'm going - how long it takes isn't really an issue.
Happy New Year everyone! I hope this year is the best one yet!
Until next time, xo.
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