Grow As We Go

Overall Goals

Being healthier

I have spent the past few years of my life kind of judging how I've been eating or how much I exercise. I've never been athletic. I've never been the person who wakes up early to work out or does it later in the day. I've also never been incredibly conscious of how I ate. I'd eat unhealthy all the time and didn't feel very healthy overall. This year I just want to be more aware of this. I won't limit myself, I won't force myself, I'll just put in a little more effort. I'll try and exercise more, I'll try and go for healthier foods, or at least eat smaller amounts of the unhealthy food I go for. 

Become more athletic 

I'm not athletic at all. I have the skills of a baby calf. This year I want to work on it. I kind of covered it before but I wanted to work out more. I'm trying to do it three times a week at least. Whenever I have time, just something. I'm about to get back into swimming so that should help a bit but on top of that, I'd love to be flexible. In my entire life, I have never been able to do the splits. This year I just want to see if I'd get that, just as a little accomplishment for jealous little me who was friends with the athletic kids. 

Work on my Weaknesses

I've always wanted to be better academically. I'm a generally good student but I still have a lot to improve on. Mainly math. I learn it once and then forget it after the test. I do fine in the class because of that but sometimes I just wish I knew more. I want to get better at it and know more about a lot. This year I'm going to try and beat that into my head. Same with history. Dates. Names. All the stuff I SUCK at (but love because history is great). 

Read more! 

I love love love reading. My bookshelf is like my prized possession and I love being able to rant to people about books. However, I never have the time to read. And when I have the time, I don't have the energy. So I'm starting with a low goal. 1 book a month. 12 all year. That's doable, I think. 

WRITE WRITE WRITE

I want to literally write like I'm running out of time. In my head, I kind of am. It's like a ticking time bomb telling me I'm writing too slowly. So this year, all of my Wattpad stories will be wrapped up. You will finally get the last chapters and I promise I'll put all my effort into them. Those who give me their time deserve some of mine. I try not to force chapters so they don't turn out like garbage so if I take forever writing them, there's a reason haha. 

I also have an actual book I'm trying to get published. My life goal is to publish a few books. Right now, I'm working on a murder mystery. It's probably what a majority of my books would be because it's my favorite genre. But I also have ideas for fantasy/sci-fi adventure books, and eventually, when I have kids I'd love to publish children's books for them. So hopefully I can get the first draft of my book done this year. The first draft is all I want right now. If I can go further, great. If not, still great. 

Keep Everything Organized

If the world around me is a mess, I'm a mess. This year I'm just going to be a lot more aware of that. I rearranged my room the other day and that change and organization was enough to make me so happy. I want to keep this feeling haha. 

KEEP TRACK OF MY EMAILS 

It's a horrible mess in there, I swear. It needs help. Every time I go into it, it's like going to battle. And then when I do go in, I read important emails and never reply. I need to learn to reply this year. Oops. 

More self-improvement

As a human, I have MANY flaws. I'm not happy with certain parts of me. I'm over-emotional, explosive, impulsive, and a lot of things. This year I want to work on that more. I've been slowly getting there but I've got more work to do. 

I also want to keep care of myself mentally. I was not doing good for like four months straight last year. I would cry constantly, I'd force a smile, I'd fall apart, and I was self-critical. I've been cursed with miserable acne and have to use an external medication for it. Even on that, I still broke out. The stress got so bad it literally looked like chicken pox. By allowing myself to fall apart mentally, I began to fall apart physically and that made it even worse. Luckily, my skin is looking my better and I think it's mostly because of my mental state. I'm happy and my skin is nearly clear as a result, something I never dreamed would happen in my life. 

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As a whole, this year there are a lot of things I want to do. There are a lot of big life things I'm striving for but I don't want to put them on here for privacy reasons this year I hope for a lot of growth and I'm excited to bring you all along for the journey or join you on yours if you'd like to share! 

Here's to an amazing year!