One of my favorite things about starting the new year is the start of new adventures. Or for some, the continuance of an adventure already started, but new opportunities and discoveries to be made. I’m a mixture of both right now. With the new year starting I’m going to be starting a new adventure (sort of), as well as continuing one that I’ve been on for a year now!

First, continuing an adventure that I’ve already been on. I started taking an acting class in January of last year for two reasons. One, I have such a deep love and passion for acting. I’ve been in school for the past 5 years, and since that’s where a lot of my focus has been I wasn’t able to dive into acting the way I have always wanted to. Last year I decided that I was losing sight of what makes me really happy. I was losing my touch with balancing my life with work and play, and I wanted to change that. So, I decided that it was time for me to get back into acting (because it makes me happy and it’s so fun!), and figured taking an acting class would help me rediscover my love for it.

The second reason is because, I got accepted to participate in this exclusive acting competition/convention for the third time (third times a charm, right?), and I really wanted to go this time with fresh training under my belt. Actually, let me rewind. I was supposed to attend this event in January of 2017, but my money fell short so I was not able to go. However, since I had already been accepted, and started the training, I just got rolled over to the next one, which will be January of 2018. So instead of sitting around and being sad that I could not go when I wanted to, I decided to fill that time, loneliness, and space with acting anyways. So, I started taking an acting class. [Read more…]

As we say goodbye to last year and hello to the new year I’m setting the intention to change my life for the better this year.

Every year I follow the New Year tradition of making resolutions. These resolutions are usually something that revolve around what I want my life to look like for the next year, or something personal about myself that I would like to see change. Now, don’t get me wrong I don’t think there is anything wrong with this tradition. In fact, I think it’s really awesome that like most people, I enter the new year with all these dreams, goals, and ambitions that I want to see myself achieve in the new year. However, if I’m being honest, I never follow through with any of my New Year resolutions. Not a single one.

The tradition of making a New Year resolution(s) goes as followed. You make a resolution(s) on the first day of the new year, and that resolution(s) is to serve as your overall intent for the New Year. Resolutions can be anything. There is absolutely nothing specific about them except what you specifically intend to achieve in the new year. For some people their resolution may be to lose a specific amount of weight in the new year, like 30 pounds. For other people their resolution may be to finally go backpacking in Europe. Whatever your resolution(s) have been in the past years, or whatever they may be in the new year, they’re always a little hard to keep and follow through with.

Right? I can’t be the only one who never follows through with their New Year resolution(s). I’m not saying that there aren’t people who do follow through with their New Year resolution(s), because of course there are. More power to those people! However, I know that despite that there are probably more people who don’t follow through with any of their New Year resolution(s). At least not for the whole year! You may see it through for the month of January, or a couple of months throughout the year, but you’re not seeing it through the way that you intended to. There isn’t any consistency with that resolution. If this is you, please do not be ashamed, embarrassed, or feel guilty in any way, because I am one of them too. [Read more…]