Yeah, that title was “cheesy” and could also be described as “low-hanging fruit”. At the same time, we are official past the halfway of this *insert adjective here* year known as the 2020th year of our lord. It’s the point in the year where we all understand the meaning of Blink-182.
I believe in fostering a growth mindset within my own life. For me this means goal setting takes place not just at the start of the calendar year, but also the start of my personal year (From one birthday to the next), the semester, the season, the month, the week, the day, the time of day, the hour etc.
Is that a little overkill? Yes.
Regardless of wether or go overkill, underkill, kill every single one of your goals or not; this is the moment to reflect back on your New Year’s Resloutions and make some new ones for the rest of the year.
Which is what I am doing here today! And because we’re all halfway through 2020, I have decided to do 10! (You know because 10 is half of 20, and we’re half way through? You got it? I didn’t explain? Well..okay then…)
1. Learn to give grace to myself (and others). – There’s no way to sugarcoat what the first half of this year has been. No matter who you are it’s been rough. I am always running into problems stemming from holding myself to unrealistic standards, and it’s not unheard of those standards to flow over onto other people. If there was ever going to be a time to look myself in the mirror and start working on that, it’s now
2. Acceptance- We all probably need to practicing this. Accepting other. Accepting ourselves. Accepting our realities. Accepting our failures. Accepting our successes. Acceptance is a skill we all need to practice a little more, because before we can change anything, we must first accept where we are. In the next half of this year, I want to practice accepting everything and everyone around me (and myself) as they are.
3. The album- This has been on deck, in pen for at least the past year. Realistically, it has also been on deck in pencil for five years. And now I am putting it out into the universe that I want this to be the year where it actually becomes a reality. Yeah… With any luck you might just see a post on that in the coming 26 weeks.
4. Writing- I going to pull a major *influencer* move here and allude to a big project that I am working on but that I don’t want to announce yet. But let’s just say, even though I may have been slacking with writing on here I have been doing a lot of writing this year. I want to keep up that momentum both on- and offline.
5. Creating- If this year has taught me anything, it’s that if not putting things out into the world I am liable to literally implode. For me creating things and sharing things are a form of self-care. I want to form habits that promote my creativity and sharing. I don’t want to make it a chore. I don’t want it to be something I only do when I am on the brink of a breakdown. I want my creativity to my ever existing, ever evolving safe space, which means I need to make it a priority.
6.Not spiraling- Yeahhh, so I may have come to the realization lately that I can have good thing going in my life, and then I have an “off” day or 12. And when I have those strings of off days, I allow myself to go off the rails with all of those rhythms and routines. But then, its getting back into those routines and creating new ones that make me feel better. Which means I could just cut out the middle man, and when I am having off day loosen the reins but not go off the rails. In theory, I could cut the off days in like half if I just kept up on those routines. Being realistic, there will be off days in the next half a year, I just want there to be less of them.
7.Health- I like to think that I am healthy-ish without even really trying. Which means I could be even healthier if I actually tried, and with the *aahhmm* pandemic things, I have even more reason to focus on my health as a priority. What exactly is that going to look like? I don’t know yet, but I plan on figuring that out and letting you know!
8.Tattoo- So yeah, I have been saving and planning for this for a while…And I putting it on the internet so I will stop being a little bit of a sissy and actually book the appointment. I don’t want to talk too much about this but yet again, guess who’s going to hear about once I actually do it? You! Lucky, lucky you!
9. Standing up for myself- It’s not that I don’t stand up for myself, but I sometimes have a problem with letting things fester, or just shrugging them off until I can’rt anymore. Sometimes I don’t have the best boundaries etc. Now is as good of a time as any to fix that, so that’s what I am gonna do.
10. Caring less about others’ opinions- This one is hard, but I doubt there’s ever going to be a better time to start forming this habit. Why? Because I have been in quarantine for *forever* and without a ton of human interaction with unsupportive people, you really begin to realize how small your circle needs to be. It’s not so much that I want to stop caring what others think all together, it’s more I want to only value an extremely small number of people’s opinions.
So, there’s my list of goals for the second half of this year. What’s on your’s?
Loved it, you are a great writer
fantastic publish, very informative. I’m wondering why the other specialists of this sector do not understand this. You must proceed your writing. I am confident, you have a huge readers’ base already!