I can also be super classy, and super me by listening to upbeat jazz, and drink Glühwein! What a great new year´s eve.
So, first of all:
My goals, I need 3-5 goals that I can accomplish or move closer to, during the next year.
Obviously, three of those goals will be
Goal number 1: Learning German (4realdistime!)
This one has 3 steps:
- Organize what I already have in paper.
- Finish the online course
- Make summaries of grammar and vocabulary.
As side steps and extra encouragement, I will:
- Watch one movie/series/video in German per week.
- Turn German subtitles on in every movie I watch by myself.
- Read one children's book in German every three months (I'm trying to keep it real)
Goal number 2: Find a path.
This is taken apart into, kind of 3 steps:
- Make a list of "paths" (I will not go into details of what I mean with paths).
- Sift with: Pros, cons, emotions, society.
- Hopefully finding a path, but at least shortening the list.
Goal number 3: Keep moving forward on my mental health.
This one has more of a bag of learning and coping tools than steps, but here:
- List what I believe are my issues.
- Create a system for writing about the toxic paths that the mind takes in adversity.
- Create a set of tools to cope with each issue and the small instant situations that trigger them too.
- Make a list of triggers and examine their origin.
- Make a list of habits that help my general health.
- List my boundaries, with reasons, origins, their importance, and likelihood to be crossed. And fucking respect them!
- Make a list of nice things to tell me when I am mistreating myself.
- Start a gratitude journal.
This one is a new one and is kind of creating a completely new way of counting the days, and more:
- Create my holidays and rituals to celebrate them.
- Read on Paganism, Celts, Buddhism and other religions to add whatever I like from them.
- Make a fucking great bible kind of thing!
- Start a cult.
- Destroy the system and end patriarchy.
- Start a new, better world!
Goal number 5: Write, write, write.
It was hard to decide since I have so many writing desires!
- Write on my new calendar and beliefs.
- Write articles about social issues.
- Create the world, the characters, backgrounds, and situations for my novel.
- Write short stories for adults.
- Write short stories for children (and draw the books!)
- Create my zine!
- Write my book of short stories (give shape).
Now, I would like to stick to certain habits so I will transform them into challenges!
- Meditation challenge: Meditate at least 5 minutes per day for the whole year.
- Relaxing challenge: Take time to relax once every other day for 2 months.
- Mental health challenge: Create the system and use it at least once a week for 3 months.
- Me-time challenge: Take alone time at least twice a week for one month.
- Emotional writing challenge: Write two poems per week, optional: turn them into songs, for the whole year.
- Physical health challenge: List a bunch of sport I may do, pick up one depending on the likelihood of sticking to it. Practice this sport twice a week for 2 months.
Besides that, I will:
- Make a list of projects on a piece of paper, to have it all very clear right in front of me all the time.
- Make a budget to have more organized finances!
Easy enough, right? Ha. At least it's well organized, or isn't it?. Let's have some hope though... I can do this!
And on that note, I wish anyone who is out there and may see this, a wonderful new year.