Hey everyone and welcome back to my blog. So for todays post I thought I would do a classic new year post and share with you all some of my goals for this new year. I’m choosing to set goals rather than resolutions as I find that resolutions add an element of pressure to stick to them and can often be set just for the sake of it. Whereas a goal is something that can be achieved without a specific time frame and it’s often something you really want to happen and want to achieve. I did this last year and set goals instead and I found that it worked much better and I actually stuck to them and I achieved a lot. But that’s for another time. So I’m gonna share some of my goals with you, some to do with social media and some to do with my real life. Some of my goals this year include:
Hitting 10K on instagram. This is a very big goal. I doubt I’ll reach it but I am determined to improve my instagram game this year. Even if I reach around 7 or 8K I will still be very happy and grateful but 10K would just be incredible. Hitting 1000 subscribers on my main Youtube channel and 500 subscribers on my vlog channel. I am working so hard on youtube channels and I’m always finding ways to improve them and make better videos. So watch this space and if you haven’t subscribed yet I would love it if you would. 1000 would be a perfect round number to reach this year. Click HERE if you want to subscribe. Now for some more real life goals. I want to finish my second year of university with a second class honour of some kind, whether it’s a 2:1 or a 2:2. It’s been rough so far for me at uni this year, ask people who know me. My best friend who is basically a sister to me now will tell you all the swear words I’ve said and how many tears I’ve cried over it. Over text, on the phone or in person. So to get a second class this year, this would make all the suffering somewhat worth it. Read more books. I managed to read 4 books last year which was an improvement on 2018’s 2 books. I know I’m terrible. Hats off to the people who read like 40 something books a year!! So this year I’m gonna try and read 6 or 7 books this year. I know it’s nothing compared to what most people read but for me it’s a start. Eat less meat. Now I risk getting huge backlash here butttt for the sake of my health and for environmental reasons this year I want to start eating more veggie and vegan options more regularly. Especially at home, when I’m out and just have myself to think about or if I'm in London it’s much easier to do with cool places popping up everywhere but when I’m at home it’s a little more challenging. I've already reduced my dairy intake drastically for several reasons so this to me feels like a logical next step. I’ve made a start on it already and I’ve bought a veggie and vegan recipe book so I have some ideas and inspo so I can start cooking some things out of it at home asap. I’m excited to try some new meals and it’s an easy change that anyone can make to help the planet. You don’t have to everything, just try something. Even one less meat option or meal a week could help so much. I’m not going 100% vegan yet but I want to try and do something. Hopefully that’s enough, it is for me anyway and I know that I’m doing something. Now I’m repeating some goals from last year but they are so important to me that I’m repeating them again this year and probably will for years to come. So here we go again, kinda. I want to practice more self-care, I slipped at this in the last few months in 2019 and I cant afford to let it happen again. I need to show even more self love than ever, but towards the parts of myself that I find a little harder to accept and sometimes hate about myself still. Lets say the anxious or depressed jade as an example of this. When I’m in that state or breaking down it’s all too easy to start self hating and self destructing and I gotta stop. Because sometimes we fall down and it’s okay to wobble. Whats important is getting back up again afterwards. So I just need to be a little more gentle and allow myself to feel down without being over critical of it. So have that cry, talk nonsense to my best friend over text or on the phone and then get on with it the next day if I can. And then one final repetition is this, and it’s gonna be the hardest one to implement. Like it was last year. And it’s being selective with my time and choosing carefully who I let into my life. The latter half of 2019 gave me a stark reality check of who actually gives a shit and let’s say it was surprising. Let’s just say it was internet friends and the one friend I have that lives near to me that actually care about me and checking in to see if I was okay when some really wild shit happened. NOT family like you would expect it to be. At first it hurt me, like a bitch and I was so confused and my thoughts were a mess. But I’m over it now (i think) and more determined to find my people in this world. Thanks to instagram I really am getting there with it now. But I was taught a sharp lesson that blood isn’t everything and you know what, its okay to choose who your family is/are too if the blood one doesn’t support you or doesn’t love you the way they should or in the way you deserve. Okay I’ll stop now before it gets too deep. But I think I’m in a better position now to choose who I spend my time with and I think I’m finally able to simply cut off anyone who doesn’t treat me right. I don’t have time for shitty people anymore, life is too short. And then a few more materialistic things to finish off. I want to travel even more than I did last year and last year was an incredible year for travel. With the likes of Cuba, Venice, The Algarve, New York City and Geneva all being in the same year. So as well as travelling in general to more cities, I already have a fund set up for this. I want to possibly try solo travel, nowhere far to start with but I think I could do it as i’m so independent already. Plus it would be great prep for my year abroad which starts later this year… HELP. I still feel sick at the thought of it. I want to try and save better as well, because every penny helps especially being a student. I did this for New York using a function in my banking app (I added a saver account which I could put money into and take it out instantly and whenever I wanted to) and it was so easy to do and I had £400 together in a matter of weeks just by budgeting and changing a few habits; it was so satisfying when I got to NY and could treat myself to everything I wanted to because I’d worked hard to save the money myself. So I want go even further this year and save even more so I don’t waste my money and use it on things I really want (which lets face it is travel lol) as well as making sure I always have money put aside if I need it in an emergency. And finally another environment related goal that puts me at risk of being slammed for but I want to explore some sustainable options in terms of fashion. I can’t not shop at all, sorry but shopping makes me happy and I use treating myself as a coping mechanism for my anxiety & depression sometimes. It’s just how I am. But I would love to explore using Depop more to buy clothes, it’s very popular to do nowadays which is amazing and I am so late to the party. And then I want to explore shopping with some more sustainable and ‘green’ brands. I’ve started this already by discovering ‘Nobody’s Child’ who have great sustainable ethics but I wanna explore even more brands this year. If you know of any that you think I'd like then dm me on instagram. So we’ll see how that goes and I will of course let you guys know how it goes too. And there we have it, there is a selection of my goals for 2020. There probably are other that will appear down the line but for now this is all I can think of. I hope you enjoyed this post and I am determined to start blogging more regularly again because I do enjoy it. Thank you for reading if you go this far and I will see you all soon for another post. Love Jade xxx Comments are closed.
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