One of my new years resolutions for 2021 is to start writing again and posting on my blog at least once a week.
At the end of week one, I have already run into trouble.
I don’t have any writing ready to share!
So, to kick off the year, I thought I’d put my hot-off-the-press resolutions out to the world.
I hope this is somewhat interesting to some folks. I personally love having a bit of a nosy into other people’s lives.
Rules:
#1. I am allowed to refine/edit my goals during the month of January
#2. I will share my progress quarterly for accountability
Relationships
- Surprise my partner six times
- Surprise my parents and grandparents twice each
- Build a habit of thinking of what my parents/grandparents might need when I go shopping
- Surprise my friends 12 times (10 left)
- Host four board games and/or dinners in our apartment
Fitness
- Lose 5kgs (4 left)
- Do six pull ups consecutively (4 left)
- New running personal best
- 5km in 30 mins
- 10km non-stop
- New bouldering/rock climbing personal best (currently 15V)
- Try personal training in February
- Group fitness of some type every week
Career
- Find a meaningful volunteer role, preferably with elements of leadership development
- Connect with a mentor, have at least six purposeful meetings
- Weekly, monthly, quarterly reviews of work and life
Better me
- 12 new hikes this year, four overnight hikes/camps (11/3 left)
- Mindful consumption of:
- 24 Books/Audiobooks (22 left)
- 24 Films/Theatre/Musicals/Shows (23 left)
- 24 Webinars/Public Lectures (24 left)
- 24 Art Galleries/Exhibitions (22 left)
- Try/Re-try something new six times (6 left)
- (e.g. Improv class, Medical trial, MeetUps, Bumble BFF, Fundraising writing)
Creative
- One post on blog per week
- 24 pitches submitted (23 left)
- Make six crafts (5 left)
- (e.g. build DIY glass house, watercolour,
pottery, clay sculpture)
- (e.g. build DIY glass house, watercolour,
- Print two rolls of film
Miscellaneous
- Investigate DELE exams for Spanish
- Investigate English teaching course
- Investigate tour guiding
Coincidentally, 24 goals for the year I turn 24.
Credit to Matthew Dicks for having a great NYR system that I have heavily borrowed from with some adaptions.
(Side note: the podcast him and his wife Elysha produce on how to become a better storyteller called Speak Up is a fantastic listen.)
If you have read some of my other writing before and have clicked into this post out of curiosity, thank you.
My writing will be a little different this year though I do hope to still get some poetry in here and there. The source material (read: me) is much of the same. I hope you will choose to stay.
Q: What are some of your end of year reflections or new years resolutions?