Welcome to the 2016

Hello World.

So it is crazy to believe that it is 2016 and like everyone online I am writing to you all about my resolutions.
The main reason why I chose my resolution this year, is because throughout 2015 I have been looking back into the past and living with nostalgia. It's become such a bad thing that my confidence has taken a huge set back and my fear has risen.

My resolution is to grow from my past; let go of what I need to and learn from my regrets and mistakes. I have found areas that I am not happy with and that is where I am going to grow from. A girl online has once told me that it can take up to six week to change and break bad habits and this is one thing I am going to work upon.

Like most people I have set myself up with some do able goals for this year.

Goal one: To exercise more. One of my big nostalgia is missing that old body I had. When I left the gym a couple of years ago to move to Bristol, I had let myself go. A year without exercising had created a bit of a weight gain and plenty of body shaming on my behalf. So it is my goal to get back into the swing of working out and to start loving myself a lot more. I want to aim to be working out at least three- four times a week. I would like to range this from hard work outs to more chilled out ones like Yoga.

Goal two: To write a lot more. Writing to me is like a filling a whole, I'm not complete when I don't see words forming on a paper or screen. Writing was a place where I can clear the clogs in my head and help me feel a bit more fresh. For some unknown reasons, I developed this anxiety of what things I could or could not write. A wall began to build and I began to limit myself of what I could write down on paper and what I could write on screen. I am aiming to break down this wall and become free to write whatever is going on in my head onto paper and within in limits of what I write on screen.

Goal Three: To read more books. I have a bad habit of buying and asking for books that I will stack onto my book shelf and never actually read. I have a shelf on this book shelf dedicated to books I have bought and have not read. The aim is to stop buying books for now and to get through this shelf. Being in a bookshop is still classified as my happy place, it just that habit of buying books that I know I won't read straight away. For the long term it will help me save some more pennies.

Goal Four: Another hobby I had, that helped clear my head was drawing. I normally draw when I write, so I am hoping it will all fall in place. This is not a huge goal for me, but it is something I want to work towards when the other goals fall into place.

Claire