**Below is the blog post I wrote back in January but never published... here it is now. 2017 has been great so far - I can guarantee that i haven't achieved all of those 18 things mentioned at the end of the post, but I do know that there are lots of additional things I have achieved that I hadn't dreamed possible!**
When you type 'top 10 most common new year's resolutions' into Google, you get a plethora of articles listing an assortment of resolutions, along with the reasons why we fail to keep them, and ways to succeed.
Some of the most common resolutions include:
- Lose weight
- Save more money
- Be more organised
- Read more
- Go to the gym more/eat healthier
- Spend more time with friends and family
- Quit smoking
- Get a new job
To me, this doesn't really make sense or hold any value. After all, most people fail to keep them anyway! I do, however, find it important to have some sort of idea of what I want to achieve in the coming year.
I have a little notebook, and ever since 2012, I have been writing a list of things I think I would like to achieve. I then pop that book away, and don't look at it again until the following year. I can then see which goals I reached, and which I didn't. It's not about reaching a goal or 'failing at a resolution'; it is about watching how I changed over the year, and seeing how my priorities shifted and my world changed as the year progressed. I find it utterly fascinating actually.
Back then, in 2012, they were things like 'lose 5kg' and 'save all of my $5 notes' and 'go to the gym 5 times a week'... the normal stuff that people want to achieve. (FYI that year I did save all of my $5 notes and deposited about $1200 into my bank account.)
When I look back over each year, you can see how I have become much more relaxed about life, and how happy I am with the small things. It has become less about losing weight, or getting a new job, or going to the gym a thousand times, or saving money. Instead, it's more 'learn how to hoop' or 'make dreamcatchers' or 'go bushwalking' or 'learn how to garden'. Really random stuff that I do that makes me happy.
I can't write what the random goals are for 2017... that would defeat the point. There are 18 of them this year, which I may or may not achieve. Either way, 2017 is going to be great :).
Until next time.
Hx
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