2018 New Year Resolutions and Goals
Happy New Year! I hope you had fun welcoming in 2018 and you didn’t have too much of a hangover on New Year’s Day! Sadly I had to work an overnight shift so there wasn’t any chance to party. But it gave me time to reflect on 2017 and look forward to what I hope to achieve in 2018.
So today I thought I would share my 2018 goals and resolutions, and how I hope to work at them.
Blogging
Much like last year, I hope to continue with my blogging streak, for my own enjoyment, and yours! I’ve already started pencilling out a rough plan for blog posts this year and I’m excited for what I have lined up! Please also let me know in the comments if there are any ideas you’d like to see from me, I’m open for suggestions!
YouTube
In 2017 I finally achieved my goal of starting my YouTube channel. I’ve always loved filming from a young age, and I’d dabbled with making my own YouTube videos as a teen. But since the end of college I didn’t get a lot of opportunity to carry on with this hobby.
There have been quite a few setbacks in my personal life, including my mental health and finances. During those low times, I turned to YouTube and watched numerous vloggers who I could relate to. One person in particular was Justin Scarred.
I could relate to his emotions and applied his words of wisdom to my own experiences. His love for Disney and travel reignited my own love for these interests, and it would be very fair to say that his videos inspired me and motivated me to kickstart my hobby of making videos again.
So this year I hope to upload videos regularly to my YouTube channel and plan to schedule them similarly to my blog.
Get fit
I’ve had operations on my feet over the last two years, which have limited my chances of exercising. As much as I tried to eat healthy, some pounds inevitably piled on. Now both of my feet have healed, I have no more excuses! I will *whispers* join a gym! I don’t intend on losing too much weight, but I would like to get myself back to a happy physical state, and in turn I hope this will also improve my mental health as well.
Travel
Last year I was very lucky to visit Disneyland Paris twice with my boyfriend. We plan on going on more adventures together during the year but I am also hoping to visit my best friend in Hong Kong. I plan on writing about my travels and can't wait to share them with you.
Organisation
I’ll be totally honest right now, my bedroom is an absolute bomb-site! Since returning from Disneyland Paris in December, I have been back and forth from Southampton for personal family reasons, plus Christmas and working night shifts have caused a clutter catastrophe! So I hope to truly organise my possessions this year and aim to maintain it.
Budgeting
As mentioned in my previous blog post, budgeting my finances was not my strong point last year. But in 2018, I want to get on top of them and really start to save for longer-term, adulting goals.
So that’s my outline for 2018! One of the biggest lessons I learnt last year was that I wasn’t going to succeed in any of my goals by wishing for things to happen, and then complaining when they didn’t. I had to work hard at my 2017 goals and I am proud to look back on my successes. But now I must look forward and continue to build on what I achieved. Bring it on!
I’d love to hear what your goals are for 2018! Do we have similar targets? Please let me know in the comments and we can conquer them together!
Renabelle xxx
So today I thought I would share my 2018 goals and resolutions, and how I hope to work at them.
Blogging
Much like last year, I hope to continue with my blogging streak, for my own enjoyment, and yours! I’ve already started pencilling out a rough plan for blog posts this year and I’m excited for what I have lined up! Please also let me know in the comments if there are any ideas you’d like to see from me, I’m open for suggestions!
YouTube
In 2017 I finally achieved my goal of starting my YouTube channel. I’ve always loved filming from a young age, and I’d dabbled with making my own YouTube videos as a teen. But since the end of college I didn’t get a lot of opportunity to carry on with this hobby.
There have been quite a few setbacks in my personal life, including my mental health and finances. During those low times, I turned to YouTube and watched numerous vloggers who I could relate to. One person in particular was Justin Scarred.
I could relate to his emotions and applied his words of wisdom to my own experiences. His love for Disney and travel reignited my own love for these interests, and it would be very fair to say that his videos inspired me and motivated me to kickstart my hobby of making videos again.
So this year I hope to upload videos regularly to my YouTube channel and plan to schedule them similarly to my blog.
Get fit
I’ve had operations on my feet over the last two years, which have limited my chances of exercising. As much as I tried to eat healthy, some pounds inevitably piled on. Now both of my feet have healed, I have no more excuses! I will *whispers* join a gym! I don’t intend on losing too much weight, but I would like to get myself back to a happy physical state, and in turn I hope this will also improve my mental health as well.
Travel
Last year I was very lucky to visit Disneyland Paris twice with my boyfriend. We plan on going on more adventures together during the year but I am also hoping to visit my best friend in Hong Kong. I plan on writing about my travels and can't wait to share them with you.
Organisation
I’ll be totally honest right now, my bedroom is an absolute bomb-site! Since returning from Disneyland Paris in December, I have been back and forth from Southampton for personal family reasons, plus Christmas and working night shifts have caused a clutter catastrophe! So I hope to truly organise my possessions this year and aim to maintain it.
Budgeting
As mentioned in my previous blog post, budgeting my finances was not my strong point last year. But in 2018, I want to get on top of them and really start to save for longer-term, adulting goals.
So that’s my outline for 2018! One of the biggest lessons I learnt last year was that I wasn’t going to succeed in any of my goals by wishing for things to happen, and then complaining when they didn’t. I had to work hard at my 2017 goals and I am proud to look back on my successes. But now I must look forward and continue to build on what I achieved. Bring it on!
I’d love to hear what your goals are for 2018! Do we have similar targets? Please let me know in the comments and we can conquer them together!
Renabelle xxx
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