Have you ever noticed how the end of an old year seems like the perfect excuse to let good habits slide, because in a week or so you’re going to start new ones anyway? Maybe that’s just me. So I’ve been thinking about past resolutions I’ve managed to keep and new ones I’d like to try, and I’ve got it divvied up by a few different areas of my life:
1. This blog!
My posts here have been…irregular to say the least. I’ll have to see what my work and class schedule is like, but my general goal will be to post at least twice during the week and once a weekend. Fingers crossed I’ll be able to make this blog into a real thing!
2. Health!
The Southern Belle and I were pretty good about keeping up a workout routine this semester…until Dead Week rolled around. Then we tended to go for Starbucks over the gym. But I’d like to resurrect that workout routine with both cardio and strength training, as well as continuing to avoid packaged dinners. I should probably also take my boyfriend’s advice and drink more water. And eat more veggies. You know. General healthy eating. But also not beating myself up over occasional slip-ups.
3. Communicating!
I seriously need to keep in better touch with my family. And friends from high school. I’m also filing more consistent journal writing under this, because I need to be better about communicating with myself and articulating what I’m feeling. Along this same vein, I want to be better about keeping myself informed on what’s going on in the world, because for most of 2014 I seriously had no idea.
4. School!
This is my job right now, but I need to keep it balanced and give schoolwork the value it deserves, no more and no less. Part of this is my resolution not to do homework at home. Instead I’ll be utilizing the office I get a key to because I’m a managing intern for my school’s online journal (yay, power!). I’ll also try not to rely on my tutoring shifts as time to get homework done – as nice as it is to get paid to do homework, it’s not a good habit to rely on that opportunity and then get annoyed with my students when I have to, y’know, actually do my job.
5. Fun!
I want to try new things. I actually promised my boyfriend I would even *gulp* go skiing with him. This semester I’ve realized that I got into a habit of writing off certain activities or aspects of life just because it’s easier to define myself that way. For example, I tend to laugh about the idea of me going skiing because I’ve just automatically said that I hated it for so long. I know that if I were to agree to try it, people would make a big deal out of it, so I don’t admit that actually I might be willing to try it again.
What are you trying to improve on in 2015 (or are you just staying your wonderful self)?
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