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New Years Goals | 2017

17:30

♪ Rockabye - Clean Bandit

 How delightfully obvious is it that I am posting about my 2017 goals? Well, I've got to have some nook or cranny to store them in, so I thought why not here?

 ⬗ Create and stick to a morning routine
⬗ Continue with my personal development and believe in myself
⬗ Feel the fear and do it anyway
⬗ Leave the house every day
⬗ Work hard to achieve my dreams
⬗ Don't forget to take time for yourself
⬗ Read 50 books
⬗ Review at least one book a month

 As you can see, a lot of these are very personally based, and only I can judge on the inside whether I have been fulfilling these. They're not things that you can necessarily tick off a list, but they are things that I want to implement into my life going forth into the new year.

 I do want to get a lot of reading done as well, and get back into reviewing books - I always thoroughly enjoyed it. I have been travelling for the past 2 years, so always had other things to be doing and seeing rather than reading. This year I'm back on home soil and I want to make it a challenge to up my reading game.

 These are my overall goals for the entirety of the year, what are yours?

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Something Has Changed Within Me

18:50


♪ Final Fantasy XV Soundtrack - Yoko Shimomura

Call me cliche and tell me that you've heard this a thousand times over, but this is the start of something new - not just this blog, but everything in my life. I'm turning over a new leaf with more confidence, more motivation and more drive than I have ever felt before in my life. Something changed in me when I went travelling, and I don't just want to let it fly away from my grasp; I want to care for it and help it to grow, because I know for a fact that this is not the finished article of my life.

When I was away, something just clicked; I couldn't tell you what it was or when it happened, but it did. I was always the person that would have an amazing burst of inspiration that would last a week before it fizzled out again, but this time I feel it's different in my core. Now, to the unseeing eye, this may sound like another case of "weekly inspiration", but I have had this feeling now for almost 6 months whilst I've been on the other side of the world. In fact, whilst I was travelling, a part of me couldn't wait to get home to implement all of the new things I wanted to do in my life, and it ate me alive that I couldn't start everything then and there. 6 months of constant thoughts, ideas and excitement just never happens for me, so I needed to act on this as soon as possible!

 Yes, I'm being kind of vague with what I'm excited about, but it's an amalgamation of different aspects of my life; work, health, lifestyle and confidence. I'm excited to pour a lot of my inspiration into writing here on this blog, and I couldn't say where exactly it's leading, but I know it's in the right direction and that's all that matters to me.
(Pst, whilst writing this, I couldn't help but think back to Wicked's "Defying Gravity" lyrics - "Something has changed within me, something is not the same, I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game" - hence the title, haha)