8/28/16It has been a long time since I have posted on here. I'm sorry, but honestly I kinda thought I never would post on here again. I feel like you guys deserve an update on my life though. I don't really know what this post will be about yet, but I plan on just talking about things on my mind. 2016 has been amazing. Honestly it has been the best year of my life so far. I have gotten sick about 80 million times even though I used to never get sick at all. There have been so many changes in my life, and I have been embracing them. Blogging does still interest me since now I feel like many of my other projects have come to an end, but I know I have been so happy without blogging since I have gotten back into journaling (I have been journaling everyday), and like I said I have been making lots of change sin my life. Recently I have just been in the mood to blog again, so I might post something here or there, but I make no promises since like I said I have loved the break. Here are some of the things I have been doing. . .
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I have done a lot of self improvement during my break and I have been completing a lot of projects which I have been meaning to get to. Maybe I will break this all down into the things I have been doing and work from there.
JournalingSo I said before I have been daily journaling and actually if I keep it up for a few more months I will have journaled every day for a year. It replaced the writing part of blogging for me, and sadly I have to admit it is more enjoyable for me than blogging in that sense since I am the only one reading it and I don't need to worry about how to phrase things or misspellings. Also journaling is something I have dreamed about for my whole life. I feel so accomplished when I fill up an entire journal and already I have filled so many journals with how much I have been writing. I hope one day to have a whole shelf filled with my journals. I haven't just been writing in my diary though I have also started a bullet journal which I am enjoying. It allows me to have a nice creative outlet and a place to put lists of goals and things like that. Although now that school has started I tend to like using a normal planner since the bullet journal just isn't the set up I want right now with school. I don't like having to flip through random pages just to find the homework I need to do tonight. I like condensing my papers though which is something the bullet journal is amazing at, so even if I do not use it as a planner I have enjoyed not having papers around everywhere. I also can track my habits in there which have helped me accomplish things I have never done and helped with my personal growth. It's a bit chaotic at times but I like having my bullet journal around to store info and keep me sane when having to plan things way in advance.
DeclutteringAs you know I got the Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up for Christmas, and I loved it. I actually got Spark Joy earlier this year too, and I have been in love with decluttering. My closet is a lot smaller now and only filled with things I love, and I have just been downsizing and decluttering wherever I can. I will actually get in a mood where all I want to do is declutter but I don't have a lot of things that I want to declutter so I end up just going through my stuff like 20 times only getting rid of one or two things at most each time. I have also done digital decluttering and I actually backed up all my files and photos on my computer which took some times, but that was a project I did earlier this summer. Decluttering has brought a lot more joy in my life and is part of the reason why I could make so many self improvements and start actually doing things I have wanted to do for so long without having stuff tie me down. I want to stay busy, but also be able to keep up with everything. I don't want to take on blogging since I have lots of other things similar to blogging to fill the void and that I already have trouble keeping up with. Recently I have just had a hard time really knowing what I want to do because of all the changes and stress that school brings, because yes I am in school, and actually my second week starts Monday. This will be a long year I can tell.
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TravelOne of the biggest things I have done this summer was travel. I went to France and Austria with my dad and I had a great time. I haven't traveled that much in my life besides trips to my grandparent's cabin or to Disney World. I had never been out of the country and I was pretty scared by the idea, but I ended up loving it, and I definitely want to go back especially to Austria since I only spent one day in Salzburg which was one of my favorite cities that we went to and there is so much more I want to do there. I have no idea the next time I will go back and it probably won't be for a few years, but I look forward to when it will be. I know many other people have a long list of places to travel but honestly my list isn't that long now and I am enjoying being at home. I feel like that is so different to tons of people my age. I have too many other things to figure out, traveling is not too important to me. I would much rather figure out what job I want or hobbies I should form.
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HealthLike I said earlier I got sick so many times this year, which is odd since I have focused more on my health this year than any other probably. The first half of the year I did really well with eating healthy foods and working out, however after traveling and just that it's the summer both of those things aren't going so well anymore. I am trying to work on that though. I would love to get into yoga and of course also eat better. I am taking a personal fitness class this year which I am hoping will get me back into working out and maybe inspire me to eat better too. I have some ideas, but will I have the willpower to follow through.
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I recently have really looked into cutting out sugar, but I know this will be a big step and really hard to do, so I might try and do it slowly replacing things one at a time. It's hard though since I live at home and I don't buy my own groceries or anything. Also my mom cooks everything for us. I would like to change what I can control though which is breakfast and lunch. I want to stop eating sugar cereal and eat oatmeal. Also I want to pack healthier lunches which is something I already do pretty much. My health journey is a never ending rollercoaster so I will just have to see where my willpower takes me next. I know I can work hard, it's just seeing if I can work hard even when I am tired from being at school all day.