New Year's Expectations

As the new year begins and everyone decides to make their resolutions, it's hard to understand why everyone waits until January 1st to start taking control of of their life. Though knowing the reason why most people do this can be difficult, I have fell victim to this lifestyle as well. Seeing everyone have the "perfect" lifestyle on TikTok and Instagram often makes me feel insecure about my normal tendencies in my daily life. If I see one more "Day in the life" TikTok where the picture-perfect girl takes her resolutions and make them come to life my head might explode. Usually, I tend to spend the last week of December eating junk food, falling behind on my chores, and waking up late as if it makes me feel even better on January 1st when I actually act like a decend human being. However, now that I have "control" over my life, here is what I've decided my 2024's going to look like.

Starting with a journal entry, I reflected on my 2023 and listed all of the wonderful things that have happened thus far. Then, I compared the vision board that I made at the beginning of 2023 to the pictures that I have taken on my camera roll. Based on the results, I totally made another one! But eventually I got to thinking: I am going to write down everything that I am doing now in a certain aspect of life, everything that I do on a daily to lead to the circumstances I have now, everything that I desire for that certain aspect of life, and then everything I will do to work for that desire. I find this as a positive way to bring new things into my life that weren't there previously.

The need to feel like you need to change every aspect of your life on January 1st can be really overwhelming. Taking everything one step at a time is the best advice I can give anyone who is looking for some change in the new year!

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