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Before I start, I want to say that I have been feeling quite off today and I wanted to do this also to make my motivation go up as well as yours :)
My resolutions for 2016 are quite varied, but some of them are actually the same as in 2015 - which doesn't mean that I didn't accomplish them, I did - because I want to keep them as habits forever.
1. Drink a good amount of water - that includes other drinks as juice or tea. I started really taking that seriously in September, when thanks to a friend from university I installed 'Plant Nanny' on my phone, an app to keep track of the water you drink. I really recommend it to you, it's really useful and super cute! Plus, I have noticed my skin is so much better now, for real.
2. Eat healthy food. I had been doing that on and off, but I really want to have a good diet and keep it for a long time. That means not eating fast food or junk food, and also trying to eat little chocolate and sweets. I want to start baking more so I can eat sweet food that's healthy.
3. Exercise regularly. This one I have also been doing it on and off. I had a great start in 2015 with apps like '7 minutes', but I slowly stopped. Now I try to walk everywhere and I try not to use the elevator, and I also want to run or go swimming a couple days a week.
4. Write every single day. It's the first time I take this seriously. I have 'tried' writing regularly before, but I always failed thinking that I would solve it writing less often but more words. My experience tells me that doesn't work, that leads to blocking and losing interest in the task. Since I want to be a writer - even if I don't really know what that word means - I want to write every day, either an amount of 500 words at least, or for the days when I literally don't have time, I want to write one of the '642 things to write about' that the book has.
5. Read different books. In 2015 I did an amazing job of reading - I read a total of 55 books. This year I don't know if I'll have that much time to read, so I want to read different books, different genres. I want to get inspired by books, not just read the same plot all over again. In order to do that I have created my own 'Reading Challenge' combining multiple challenges.
6. Cook every once in a while. Since I already know I want to go on Erasmus, sooner than later I'm going to live on my own. That's why I want to learn how to cook, and not only learn the traditional dishes, but try new ones. I'm really interested in vegan food and Japanese food, I also want to become more independent and be able to help my parents more than I do now, so along with cooking I also want to do more housework and see it as an opportunity to grow.
7. Meditate. I started last year with Chopra free 21 days challenges and it helped me a lot through the hard times, I can assure you I was much more relaxed. I want to meditate at least a couple days a week so I feel comfortable with that habit and I can do it whenever I feel I need to.
8. Stop doing things I don't want to do. In the past months I have realised I do quite a few things I don't want to do just because I started doing them and I think I can't stop them. I want to break unhealthy habits and forget about toxic people without feeling guilty for it. Also, this goes hand in hand with Start doing things I feel like doing, which is related to point number 10.
9. Record myself. I had been wanting to start a youtube channel for more than a year now, and I have finally started recording myself in videos. I want to do that not for the sake of starting a youtube channel - which would be pretty cool but I don't know if I'll do that because I'm super shy - but I want to do it in order to help myself become more fluid talking in English and explaining myself. As I had said, I'm a very shy person so I have a hard time talking in front of others, and since I have to do presentations for university, I want to become more confident. I think talking in front of a camera about the things that I like will help me a lot. And who knows, maybe eventually I open a youtube channel.
10. Stop being so hard on myself. I tend to stress over things that are not important at all or I start stressing ahead of time, which is not good for my health and leaves me always in a state of anxiousness and sadness. I'm not going to stop being responsible, but I want to free myself and do things because I want to do them. What I mean by that is that if I don't feel like studying in the morning, I should listen to myself and do what I feel like doing, so then I'll be happy and I'll be able to study with a smile on my face in the afternoon. I have also realised life is much more than just 'what we have to do', and I'm over trying to be the perfect thing society wants me to be.
11. Break the ice. I'm a really shy person but I'm also very curious and over the past months I have overcome my shyness and I have met a lot of new people who are amazing and who - surprise, surprise - find me amazing too! I want to keep on greeting people on the street and talking to people even if I'm a bit embarrassed at first.
12. Switch off the phone - switch on creativity. I want to spend less time on my phone doing nothing and be more on my own, in the sense that I want to pay attention to myself and have some me-time. In my case, that doesn't mean putting on make-up or taking a bubble bath, it means to let my creativity flow. I have started writing a new story and adding drawings to it, which I hadn't done since ages. I want to be able to stop for a while and doodle or play the guitar or just simply experiment.
So this are my resolutions for the new year! I hope you found them inspiring or interesting, what are you resolutions for 2016?
Thank you for reading xx
P.S.: I have realised it's one of the longest posts I have ever written omg.
