Happy (kind of) New Year! The new year always brings a sort of chaotic, motivational, stressed-out energy that I cannot quite put my finger on. Everyone is setting out to achieve their goals, doing all the ‘good luck’ rituals, wrapping up the holiday season, and starting their new year on the right foot. You know me, I LOVE planning things. So it’s to no surprise that January is my “planning” month. I plan out the year based on my goals, benchmarks that I want to reach by my birthday (end of June), and what I want to reach by the end of the year. However, after last year I feel like I really want to take the time to level up in 2023.
I wouldn’t say that I had a bad 2022. I did well at work, made time for myself and the people close to me, I was able to travel, experienced new things, did well financially, and really settled into being myself. But looking back at it, I felt like I was stuck in a routine that kept me at a baseline. This year, I plan on taking all the good from last year and leveling it up. I want to go big this year. The goals I had for myself in 2022 will be stepped up and I want to push myself to reach further. The word I chose to resemble this year is, “elevate”.
Last weekend I got together with my best friend, and we created vision boards through Canva. We talked about our goals and ambitions for the year and made vision boards for our laptop and phone wallpapers. By setting it as our wallpapers, we figured that we would be constantly reminded of our goals and keep our “word of 2023” in the center of it all. We promised to hold each other accountable, I could feel that we were equally excited to succeed in our own goals and see each other succeed in theirs. There’s just something about listening to other peoples’ hopes for themselves that makes me so motivated!
The goals that I set for myself align to be the person I want to be at the end of 2023. Keeping James Clear’s (author of Atomic Habits) theory in mind of forming habits, I wanted to make sure that my goals can be achieved by habits and systems. The hurdle that I’ll need to get over is following through with these systems and doing them. Keeping the big picture in mind, I need to get over my fears of failing and just go for it. I’m turning 26 years old this year, and I don’t want to get to the end of the year thinking that I didn’t excel this year like I hoped. I’m ready to dive head-first out of my comfort zone and push my boundaries to see what I can accomplish.
Here’s to 2023; a year of manifesting our best selves and achieving all that we set out to!
Until next time,
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