2023 Goals

    Every morning on New Years Eve I write out my goals for the following year in my journal. On New Years Eve this year I chose not to. Instead, I chose to put it on my blog! As years have passed, my goals have sort of become more serious and kind of depressing. Nothing's really as exciting anymore, compared to my goals in 2nd grade. I truly don't think that it a bad thing, it just shows how much I've grown and matured throughout the years. My goals each year represent my experiences that previous year. So, for the year of 2023: 

• Swear less
• Protect my personal life 
• Surround myself with positive people
• Choose my friends
• Prioritize things that will help me in the long run 
• Don't ignore the red flags
• Love Blind is real, ignore it
• Stop eating inflammatory foods
• Become closer with my family 
• Actively listen to peers
• Don't force a friendship/relationship
• Fill ur own void, you don't need someone else to
• Become my own friend 

    The goals are all over the place, and all are stemmed from certain experiences from 2022. To start off with swearing less just gives me a good laugh. I don't think I swear a lot compared to some of my friends but Ive been in situations in where someone tells me to watch my mouth because it accidentally slipped. Whenever that happens, I feel guilty and stupid in a way. 

    In 2022, I feel like I made my personal life very accessible to everyone around me. A lot of people who I barely spoke to knew my business. There wasn't anything I needed to hide, but It's nice to keep things to myself and only myself. Which also leads me to goal three of surrounding myself with positive people. I felt like in the past year I didn't really put much thought into who I was spending my time with. Since I surrounded myself with negative people, I became a negative person. Negativity is a really contagious virus. 

    Choosing my friends seems like a very obvious thing to do, and some of you may think this is just plain out stupid to even talk about it. But, it's really not. Especially in high school, I felt like I really just went with the flow of things and just attached myself to people who didn't care for my true well being. Choosing who I want to spend my time and put effort into is incredibly crucial in this new year. 

    Skipping to the last, becoming my own friend. I have to be comfortable with being alone and making myself my own company. I want to be able to go shopping alone and just drive around and entertain myself.