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Ah January, the first month of a new year
and the start of a new beginning.
If you caught my Happy New Year post, you
will know that I completely zoned out for the holidays to focus on family,
friends and myself (which involved eating way too much and drinking copious
amounts of mulled wine whilst learning silly dances with my family at 4am in
the morning) and today is my first official day back into the new year.
Which is why when I finally decided
yesterday to look at the year ahead and all the things I want to do and achieve,
I felt a little overwhelmed and to be honest scared.
A big difference to how I usually start the
year. I’m usually really excited and motivated!! Thankfully yesterday was
Sunday and even more thankfully I heard a fantastic sermon at church that just
spoke to my soul.
I realised the reason I was feeling so overwhelmed
was because
- The things I want to achieve this year really mean a big deal to me
- I was focusing so hard on the goals that I was not only making them bigger than they had to be but I was also making them a problem
- I was looking at all my goals and forgetting to reflect back on 2013 and be thankful for what had happened and what I had achieved and use that as a way to motivate myself forward
- Some of the goals are goals I previously had on my 2013 list so I felt disheartened that they were still there on the list
So after much thought, I have decided to
broach this year a little differently to the way I usually go about it which is
to just write down my resolutions. I also thought I would share it in case it helps
someone else who might be feeling a little similar to how I felt
