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For the uninitiated, I love making a list of the things I’d like to accomplish. I post these lists, not necessarily to be perfect, but to give myself some guidelines to go off of. I take inspiration from Gretchen Rubin’s “Design Your Year,” which I enjoy pouring over at the beginning of each year.
So, here it is: some things I want to do in 2026:
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On a whim, in the last few days of 2024, I decided the best way to engage with my friends and build something that mattered to me was to host a monthly dinner party. I polled a group of 10 friends, all of whom were vaguely familiar with each other, some who were tight knit, others outliers, added them to a group chat, and posited the question:
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2025 has been such a growth based year for me. I accomplished a lot, but I also spent much of this year prioritizing what matters. I’ve been getting a lot of tarot and zodiac readings coming up on my social media, telling me that in a year of the snake, that I would be shedding a lot of things in my life, and that I would be letting go of some things that have needed to cycle out of my life. All of that said, here’s where I landed on my 25 for 2025:
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It’s that time of year where I make a bunch of resolutions and hope that I keep to some of them. The year this was most successful was 2021, when I set out to get married and buy a condo, and managed to acheive both. This year, my life looks a little different, but nevertheless, cultivating a list of 25 things to do in 2025 gives me a sense of acheivement to look back on.
This idea, as always, is cribbed from the one and only Gretchen Rubin, whose insights provide such value to my life. If you haven’t already, my recommendation for the start of each year is to read her first book on happiness, The Happiness Project, which provides incredible insight into building a life that you are satisfied with.
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Over the last two months, I have been trying to keep up with my New Years Resolutions while juggling jobs, friendships, my relationship and my life. I have spent the last two years reading self help memoirs about women working towards the best version of themselves. And after two months, I am ready to throw in the towel.
Continue reading “The Quest to be the Best Version of Myself is Burning Me Out”
I realized that I didn’t get a chance to post my 2018 resolutions. I came up with these a couple weeks ago, and here they are, along with a corresponding game plan:
I make a lot of promises to myself, but this year, I have 24 things I want to do that are long term projects. Some of these things will require personal time and labor, but I only have this one life (I say this, even though I believe in reincarnation…moving on). So here are 24 things I want to accomplish before I turn 25.
Now, day before yesterday, I posted a blogpost about what my habit based resolutions were going to be for the month of June. What I didn’t post was a list of “one off’s.” Things I won’t be doing every day, but NEED to actually set aside the time and make happen.
So my May resolutions fell apart for a variety of reasons, and as I venture into a VERY BUSY June, I want to manage my time better than I have before. So without further ado, I present June:
My best of intentions often go horribly wrong. At the beginning of this month, I made some resolutions, and while we aren’t at the end of the month, I am at a point where I am frustrated with myself. So I want to go over where I went wrong, and figure out how I can fix things: