Happy New Year Everyone! I love celebrating New Years for a few reasons. I love change. I think when people transition from one phase of life to the next, it allows a great opportunity to step back from the day-to-day grunge of life and reflect on what matters most in your life and on ways that you can improve. I know a lot of people joke that New Years Resolutions are dumb and that they don't last more than a week or so. Although this is often true, I feel like there can be goals made at any time in your life that can be personally meaningful. As a student, the start of each semester is a great chance to make some new goals and areas to improve. If you're just a normal adult, maybe your birthday in the middle of the year is a good chance to re-evaluate your life and make some changes. Another good time is the 4th of July. It's in the middle of the year. You could also choose a random day that you're going to make some new goals for yourself. For example, March 19th or August 8th. Why those days? No reason. So, my resolutions this year can be broken up into 3 basic parts:
1. Plan out what I'm going to do each week
2. Spend more time doing productive things
3. Spend less time being unproductive
I feel like this is a really simple concept, but is often overlooked. However, when you simply define what would be productive in your life and what would be unproductive in your life, magical things happen. For example, if you spend 4 hours each day playing video games or watching TV after work or school, you may decide that you're only allowed 1 hour a day or two days with 3 hours. If you've always wanted to be better at cooking, you can replace that time you would spend on video games to look up recipes, watch the food network, and actually cook dinner for yourself.
For me, the things I feel are unproductive are the amount of time I spend on espn, facebook, and texting throughout the day. The texting one is tricky. I love texting, but I don't want to make a habit out of "conversation texts" because then my relationship with that person is extremely casual and sometimes obligatory. Whereas, I feel that a friendship can last a lot longer if once a week or once a month I would chat with them on facebook or google chat or gave them a phone call or skype or whatever. That's where I'm at
The things that I want to do a little bit more productive would be exercising more, spending more time reading, and learning how to play the piano. Those are things I would love to do. Also, I would like to write in this blog about once a week with new exciting things I've done (which require that I do new fun exciting things on a weekly basis - sometimes will be difficult).
If you have new years resolutions or goals, comment. I'd love to hear about it :) Happy New Years!
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