Hello and welcome to my first official blog post of 2018! Happy New Year
Something everyone does on the first day of the first month of the new year is createing resolutions. Everyone writes these resolutions down and within the first month the resolutions are broken. Normal resolutions are; Be more healthy, Go to the gym, Stop smoking, Travel. These resolutions are all good and well but lets be honest you rather be on the couch with a snickers bar watching pretty little liars. They often get forgotten and lost in the day to day life activities! I’m here to help!
A tip I have found is to write your resolutions but do not stop there. Break you resolution down and write out a timeline. To make your resolutions more achievable plan and organise how you are going to achieve them. Make goals not resolutions! Here are some examples:
Resolution: Be more Healthy
Goals to achieve this could be:
- Research healthier options (Substitute white rice for cauliflower rice)
- Write out a weekly meal plan
- Prep your meals at the start of the week – (Long day at work? Prepping your meals before hand makes it easier to pop it into the oven, eat and relax)
- Introduce a water intake timeline (eg. drink 1 liter by midday)
Resolution: Stop smoking*
Goals to achieve this could be:
- Seek professional advise from your GP
- Reduce amount of cigarettes per day
- Aim to not purchase another packet
- Leave your cigarette at home with your go to work
*I use to smoke, not a good habit I know. I quit cold turkey when I became pregnant. Quitting cold turkey can be a achieved but I personally felt not so good withdraws which included light headaches. If you have the right mind set you can quit cold turkey. Please seek advise from your GP first. I am not a professional in this matter this was just my experience, everyone is different.
Before I tell you my goals, I have chosen a word for 2018. And that word is ” FREEDOM”. Choosing a word for the year will help motivate you! Write in you diary for every first day of the month. So you remind yourself of your chosen word. Pull out a dictionary and find your word. Will is be “Passion”, “Courage”, “Happy”, “Reliable”, “Motivation”. Seriously! Let me know your word!
Here are my goals for 2018:
- Be Debt Free: After organising my financials, writing out my expected income, writing out my debts, I’ve set out a spread set with dates and goals on fortnightly repayments. At the end of March 2018 I will have paid off majority of my loans and debts. (If you would like a copy of my template I use email me and I’ll send it over to you)
- Interact With My Kids More: I have set a priority hour once a day 12pm – 3pm I will spend with no phone, no television well no electronic devises and ask what my children would like to do and enjoy time with them, in addition to the other playing times with them.
- Use My Gym Membership: I’ve had a gym membership for ages now, paying $36 a fortnight and I still have free personal training sessions, I should have used by now. I think I’ve been to the gym 4 times in the last 6 months. At least once a week I will GO TO THE GYM! With a positive mind, I will achieve anything.
What are your goals for this year? 2018 is the year for change! You will achieve great things.
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This is a wonderful post, very inspiring. Funny enough I have debts, so I will sit down and write them down and set a deadline for payments that way am sure there won’t be delay. You see reading helps us, by going through ur post word for word I have learnt so much already. So yeah I will pay my debts, try to stop a bad habit of mine. Which is biting my fingernails…😂🙈. I will try to fix artificial ones. Lastly i have chosen the words COURAGE and PASSION. Am sure they will work together for me.
Cheers 😘
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Wow! Such an amazing comment! Thank you for reading! Amazing choice of words as well! Courage and Passion work wonderful together! Goodluck in your goals as well xx
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Yeah…. you are most welcome. Anytime dear.
Thanks dear
You too💜💜💜
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My word is Improvement 🙂 last year was new, so I am improving on all the new things as well as other things that need to change 🙂
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Thank you for your comment Jackie! and Thank you for your ongoing support! Improvement is a great word! A your last year word “New” I believe you won that word over! Starting a Youtube Channel! Girl you owned the word NEW !
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Great advice 🙂 it will help me achieve some of my goals this year! My word for 2018 would have to be ‘courage’. I want to step outside my comfort zone and make a difference this year and I need to dig deep for the courage to do so 🙂
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Courage is such a great one! Your a blogger you already have a little courage posting online! Thank you for showing your support xx 😉
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This is a great post! I started talking to a life coach & I feel like she’s going to help me stick to my goals. She also gave good advice on how to reach my goals which are find a master’s program & start working out. She also gave me some relationship advice since I’ve been trying to work on communicating better w/ my bf.
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You go girl! What awesome goals!!
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What an insightful post on achieving my goals for this year! Every bit of advice is useful and I can’t wait to try it out💜 You’ve really got me energized and positively charged 🌸
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I’m so glad I’ve made you feel that way!
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Lovely post! I like that you suggest to break down each resolution into smaller goals. It makes it so much easier to achieve them! I also love that you have chosen freedom as your word to live by in 2018! I think mine will be Happy!
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Great word choice! Who doesn’t want to be HAPPY! Thank you for visiting my blog xx
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Wonderful post! For the first time, I won’t make resolutions. It will be more like “Freedom” and to-dos 🙂
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Wow something different! I love it!
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I want to spend less money, be more wise with how I spend my money. I’d also like to pay down debts.
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Being wise with money is a great goal! Well done for setting it! Goodluck!
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I have two words this year: persistent and wisdom. Great tips! Thanks for sharing
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What great words! Wisdom is a fantastic one
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Yes, it will be necessary in my daily walk with the Lord and with others, especially others 😂
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Such good advice! Happy New Year! x
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Thank you for stopping by
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I am working on getting my family and me healthier this year, spend more time with my son, and work on our personal finances. My word for this year is inspiring. Have a great day! Great post!
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INSPIRING is an really good word! I hope you inspire alot of people this year! Thank you for stopping by xx
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I hope so too thanks! I will definitely be coming back to check out your blog.
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A very helpful post! Thanks for sharing! It’s good that you listed down practical things on achieving those goals! Happy New Year to you and your family! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by at my website too!
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Nice! My word for this year will be shine!
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Shine is a word i barely here for their word! Excellent choice!
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I loved reading this – especially the parts about being realistic and meal prepping. If I don’t meal prep my food intake goes all over the place. Madeleine Shaw recipes help me eat well throughout the week, I’ve done a post on them if you’re interested! Looks like we’re into similar things 🙂 x
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I will definely check your post abouther recipes! I’ll head over soon 🙂 Thank you for stopping by xx
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What a great post full of very doable tips.
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Awesome post! I’ve made a few resolutions myself like “A Year of Makeup” and reading 1 book every week. It’s really helpful that you broke it down because it seems that most people fail because they have good resolutions, but they don’t know how to write out a plan to accomplish that and your examples will help a lot of people! Keep up the great content and I’m excited to see where your goals take you this year!
Happy New Year! 🙂
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Thank you so much for your comment! I really enjoyed writing this post 🙂
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Really good content. You could improve this blogpost by highlighting important things. I love it❤💜. I always make goals, now I know the reason why😉!
Xxx
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Amazing content! One of my goals is to get fit by not eating a lot of junk food. Thank you so much for saying what your goals are its really motivating! Hope you follow back, and I cannot wait to see more posts! ❤
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Good luck on your journey 😊
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love your word of the year, “freedom.” =) also really like how you aim to set time away from electronics and fully devoted to your family.. such a good discipline to practice in our era of technology dependence.
happy new year~ looking forward to more of your posts.
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Thank you for stopping by my blog 🙂 Happy new year to you too xx
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I really enjoyed this. I especially like the meal planning. I’m definitely doing this. 😊
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Woohoo! Awesome Girl xx
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Lovely post and thanks for sharing. My word is “Progression” something I want to achieve in regards to career, relationships, physical and mental health 😊
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Wow! Excellent choice of word! Everyone has room to grow and move forward!
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Happy New Year and good luck with your goals!
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Thank you xx
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Such great resolutions and I love how you thought about how you would achieve them! x
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Thank you, It’s so much better to break them down into smaller goals 🙂
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Great post! You present goal-achievement as manageable, rather than overwhelming or frightening. I love your approach!
My word for this year is: “Fluidity.” I’m deepening my yoga practice by hiring a personal yoga teacher for two sessions a month. And I’m practicing experimentation and randomness in my daily life – since I tend toward being compulsive.
Happy New Year!!
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I love how you’ve researched your word and straight away putting it into practise! Amazing job! Xx
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