Happy New Year everyone!
I know I’m three days late, but hey lately I’ve been a very busy woman. It’s taken me away from being able to post as regularly as I usually do, but it’s all been a good kind of busy. So, I’m ok with the time that was taken away.
However, it’s a new year which means new beginnings! I don’t know about you but I’m so looking forward to getting involved in new projects and just really watching all my hard work, all my crazy hopes and dreams, just unfold and become a reality.
I hope you all have taken the time to think about your New Year’s resolutions, or at the very least what you would like to accomplish in 2017.
2016 was one hell of a ride, but I believe it taught me a lot about life, love, and above all myself. It was a really eye opening year for me and I think by time the end of the year came around, I knew what kind of future I wanted to build for myself. I understood what kind of life I wanted to strive for starting in 2017 and continuing on until the end of time. 2017 will be the year that I begin that journey. The journey of shaping the life I want for myself.
There are a lot of things to reflect on when making a New Year’s resolution. All the good and the bad that happened the year before. All the mistakes that were made that you want to avoid making again. And even all the goals or plans that you had but were unable to follow through on for whatever that reason may have been. The previous year always serves as a reminder of what should have, could have, and would have been if only things went our way.
But sadly, that’s the reality of the world. We make plans, we set goals, and sometimes things just don’t go our way. But it’s by far no reason to be discouraged. Which is why New Year’s resolutions are presented as an opportunity to remind us of what we may have wanted in the year before, but were unable to get it. We use that reminder to attempt it again in the new year.
Honestly, I always thought this was such a silly tradition to do. For starters, we always make resolutions that almost seem impossible to stick to. You know what I’m talking about. The resolutions where we want to strive to lose a certain amount of weight, or we want to build upon a collection we have that we haven’t work on for years.
The silly ones that seem like a good resolution in the moment, but as the days go by you realize you don’t necessarily have the motivation to work on it, or commit to it.
So, this year I told myself I wasn’t making a New Year’s resolution. Instead, I would be setting goals for myself that I plan and hope to accomplish in 2017. In addition to these goals I crafted a list of wishes that I hope to see unfold not only in myself, but in others as the days and the years go by.
My biggest goal for this year is to commit to a lifestyle of positivity and happiness. Like most people, I have my good days and I have my bad days. However, the sad, sad truth about this reality is that my bad days tend to outweigh my good days. And not because I’m a grouchy person or anything like that, but mostly because I’m not as balanced as I would like to be.
And by balance, I mean I’m not completely tuned in with my emotions, thoughts, and feelings. They don’t always equal one another which throws off my overall feeling. Some days I live in a positive headspace, but my emotions are so negative, leaving me to come across as an unpleasant person to be around. Other days I’m trapped in a negative mindset yet my emotions are as positive as they can possibly be, which leaves me to be a very pleasant person to be around.
This isn’t a bad thing, I don’ want people to get that impression. It’s a very raw part of being human and I don’t apologize for being human. And if you ever feel this way, out of balance with yourself, just know it’s okay. It’s a part of life, a part of being human, and ultimately a part of learning how to understand yourself.
Regardless of how I feel, I have a hard time finding balance within myself. So, this year I really want to work on that. I want to work on incorporating techniques and routines in my daily life to help me center myself and stay centered.
Some of these techniques and routines include working out daily for at least 15 minutes, if able to going for a walk at least once every day, and possibly taking up yoga or some other relaxing form of meditation. There are still plenty of techniques to explore, but these are a few that I have in mind and am willing to try out before crossing them off the list.
In addition to my biggest goal of this year, my biggest wish for this year is that everyone learns to live a happier life. I feel like a lot happened last year in the world and it brought to surface a lot of underlining issues that need to be dealt with.
With those issues being brought to the surface I feel an opportunity has been presented to us to appreciate the little things in life. This can be your family, your home, mother nature, your pets, your friends, your health, or whatever it may be that you hold near and dear to your heart. We have to learn to be more appreciative of the things that we have because we never know when they can be taken away from us, or when we can be taken away from them.
So, by learning to live a happier life I really just mean learning to live your life surrounded by love and positivity. We need to learn to be nicer to ourselves and to others. To treat ourselves every once in a while, to smile more than we cry, to give out of kindness and love more than we receive. We have to be more empathic than sympathetic towards others.
We must learn to be more alive by doing the things we have always wanted to do instead of holding ourselves back.
We are and always will be the biggest obstacles that holds ourselves back.
We have to learn to break ourselves of that habit and allow ourselves to be free. We do so by striving to live happier lives. This may be subtracting people from our life who don’t promote this kind of thinking, or give off that positive energy we may be searching for. Or it may just be allowing ourselves to be more active towards the things we are really passionate about in life.
Regardless of what it may be, we need to allow ourselves to be happy and to not let anyone take that right away from us.
These are just a couple of the things I am looking forward to and hoping for in 2017. My list is much longer, but those are for me to strive for and accomplish. And who knows, you just may see them unfold as the year goes by.
What are your hopes, goals, and wishes for 2017? Let me know in the comments.
Be well, be kind, be gentle, be inspiring, and always choose to be amazing.
Until next time love bugs!
-Xo
Kimora