twenty seventeen
December 31, 2017 • featured, life, musings, personal
Over the course of 2017, I listed out a handful of goals to accomplish each month in my planner. After the month was over, I would put either a :) if I got it done, a :( if I didn’t get it done, or a :| face if I sort of got it done. I’m a checklist type of person. I’m more attuned to what I need to do if I have something to check off at the end of it. This was my way of making sure that I was going to follow through with my monthly goals, from something as big as getting a job to little things like reading more books.
Because of these goals, 2017 was one of my best years. I could sit here and write it all out again, but I think it’d be repetitive as I’d already gushed about how amazing 2017 has been for me. A part of me wants to mourn the end of a good year, but I realized that it’s silly to do that. I could act like everything good that was happening in 2017 ends tonight, or I could continue to live my best life tomorrow and everyday on forth as well. I’m going with the latter.
My good friend, KJB put out a newsletter today (please subscribe to Living Lightly Letter, I promise you won’t regret it) and she wrote:
“For 2018, I do hope you take notice of the quiet moments that contribute to the great things happening in your life. I hope you don’t put pressure on yourself to make this The Best Year Ever so you can just grow as you see fit.”
That quote really resonated with me because this is how I would like 2018 to be. I don’t want to go into it thinking I’m going to change everything all at once and have the best year ever. What I want to do is make slow and steady steps toward each of my goals like I did this year. Big changes like the ones we hope to make every December 31st are not realistic. Often times when those big changes don’t happen, it’s easy to think that you had a bad year, but that’s not always true. There’s something magical about counting your blessings because you realize you have more than you thought.
Here are my goals for 2018 (resolutions, if you will).
- Do more of what makes me happy, no matter how weird or strange or juvenile it may seem.
- Succeed at work and figure out my career path.
- Understand money - how to save and how to spend.
- Find a work/life balance so that I can spend time with people I care about, but also give my 100% at work.
- Learn to trust others again.
- Be more open about how I’m feeling and give those feelings validation instead of brushing it off.
- Travel (to somewhere that’s not Canada or Bangladesh for once…)
- Live a more healthy lifestyle (eat healthy, sleep on time, and exercise)
- Stop caring about what others might think of me and stop seeking validation from people.
- Take all that I learned in 2017 and apply it to 2018 so that the new year is just as amazing as this one was.
Now, excuse me while I go listen to “New Year’s Day” by Taylor Swift on repeat.
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