New Years Resolutions? 3 TIPS || #COUNTDOWNTO2015

As 2014 comes to an end, I can't help but be really excited for a new year. To some people, new years is just another day because nothing's going to change, right? Personally, the end of a year usually gives me an opportunity to reflect on the year that I had, be thankful, make room for improvement and change.

I used to always set the most unrealistic goals and end up disappointing myself because I never came close to achieving them. I'm sure we've all been through it before. Whether your new years resolutions include health goals, academic goals, personal goals or anything else, make 2015 the year that you can look back on and be proud of yourself.

So I decided to do something a little different for my blog and create a mini series called #COUNTDOWNTO2015 where I'll be doing one or two blog posts a week leading up to New Years. This post will be about New Years Resolutions, how to set them and how to stick to them. I'll also be sharing with you a list of my New Years Resolutions.

#1. Come up with categories

One of the biggest mistakes that I used to make was that I would come up with a bunch of goals for one area of my life and I would completely fail at achieving them. For example, in the year of 2013 I set all my new years resolutions revolved around my studies. "I'm going to get an A in all my subjects, I'm going to study every single day and I'll never hand in my work late" Right? Wrong.
Think about the different areas of your life that you would like to focus on and make goals for each of them. I like to draw up a little table in my journal and brainstorm.

HEALTH, FAMILY, FRIENDS, STUDIES, FINANCE.

By doing so, if you end up achieving your goals for that year, you would have enhanced all the areas of your life.

#2. Be realistic

Are you really going to go to the gym every single day while studying every single night and working twice a week? You'll be much more successful in achieving your goals if you stay true to yourself and realistic. Of course it's great to have a big dream! But start small and you might end up exceeding your expectations.

When I first joined my gym, I told myself that I would go 6 days a week. I kept up to it for about three weeks and I completely crashed and ended up not going for a whole week! I then decided to come up with a schedule that targeted different muscle groups that fitted into a 4/7 days a week plan. It made such a huge difference and I felt so much more motivated.

#3. Set mini goals along the way in order to achieve the bigger goal.

When I was younger I used to hate walking up the hill on the way to my primary school. One of my best friends taught me a trick. If I looked down at the steps that I was taking rather than looking up at the big hill, I got there much quicker and it felt like I was walking on a flat path. Strange, right?

If you set little goals and achieve them, you'll feel much more accomplished and it'll eventually lead up to you achieving your bigger goal.


My new years resolutions?

1. Start a YouTube channel & get my dream camera This is something I've wanted to do for the longest time, but I never really had the guts to do so. Why? I mean, there's so many YouTube channels out there but it's something I really have a passion for so I'm going to give it my best shot and we'll see where that leads me to.

2. Make my last year of high school, my best I'm going to be finishing up my final year of high school in 2015! WOOHOO! Pretty self explanatory but I hope that 2015 will be a great school year. Plus, new stationary!

3. Read more books When I was little, I was the biggest book worm. I still absolutely love reading but just never find the time to do it. I recently started reading a book called "The Pawn of Prophecy" which is BOOK 1 in a series called "The Belgariad" and I'm loving it!

4. Improve my blog I would love to change up my blog and make sure that I'm bringing the best quality photos, posts and soon to be videos haha!

I guess that's all I'm going to say as my other new years resolutions are pretty personal, I really hope that this helps some of you or inspired you to plan for a great year, I can't wait for the next post that I'm writing up for you, it's going to be a GREAT one.

Stay tuned for more posts!
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KARYNENGEE