First of all I want to say Happy New Year! I hope you all enjoyed the holidays! Next you may be thinking ‘where have you been!’ and I don’t blame you, I’ve been gone for a while! The reason is that school was taking up a lot of my time so it was really difficult to find time to write. It was also nice to spend Christmas time with family around! I’m back though and for my first blog back I thought I’d share my New Years Resolutions with you and see whether I achieved last year’s!
Last Year’s 2018 Resolutions; did I complete them?
▪️ Reach 16,000 views by the end of the year. I know this seems insane but I know we can do it. At the moment I’m on 11,225 so lets see whether we can reach this absolutely crazy amount by the end of the year! - I completed this! I surpassed 15,000 at around mid June! Which is completely crazy since I set this goal for the end of the year and did it in half the time, but I can only thank you all for this!
▪️ Widen my audience on this blog by gaining more readers. A way I can do this is by sharing my blog. - Based off of the last statistics I think I have successfully completed this. I currently have an Instagram (@isaybell_blog) and Facebook page (@ISayBellblogOfficial) where I share my blog links! I also have views in Germany, Poland and Australia!
▪️ Cut down on sugary foods because my skin isn’t great at the moment so by cutting down on sugar, my skin will clear up. - If I’m completely honest I only properly kept this up for around a month, perhaps two at the most. However I still am drinking less sugary drinks so that kind of counts!
▪️ Be more independent, whether thats going down to a local shop on my own or making more of my own decisions which is something I’ve always wanted to change, sometimes I turn to my parents or friends and ask for their opinion when I should just choose my own. - I would say I’ve completed this! I can still be indecisive at times but generally I think I’ve gotten better.
▪️ Have more commitment, in my resolutions last year I said I wanted to create a gratitude journal which I did not complete. I am the kind of person who will start something with loads of enthusiasm but then forget about it or just not do it. - I have shown commitment both academically and in my blog (up until the end of the year) with my studies taking priority. I would say I have pretty much completed this goal.
▪️ Keep up learning an instrument. I own a guitar, but with the same thing as the gratitude journal, I don’t commit. I have always loved music and had an interest in instruments, in fact, I often find myself on GarageBand playing about with the app but never get round to actually playing a real instrument really well. - Unfortunately I haven’t completed this. I still always tell myself to do it but I always find something else to do instead, I’m going to keep this resolution this year too!
My 2019 New Year’s Resolutions
▪️ Reach 25,000 pageviews by the end of the year! This seems so crazy to even type but let’s see whether we can do it! At the moment I’m at 18,305 so let’s check in next year!
▪️ Improve my studying- this may not make much sense but I really want to try even harder with my studying, whether that’s notes or slotting it into my timetable better. Anything to help!
▪️ Balancing my life- at the moment school is taking up so much of my time so I want to be able to find a balance between school and my life.
▪️ Skin care- my skin is so important to me and I do have problematic skin so I want to do everything I can to help clear it up! Whether that’s a face mask every week or getting facials often! I have also been experimenting with new products to decide which ones work for my skin and which ones don’t!
▪️ FaceTime my family more- all my family live abroad so I don’t see them all that much, so to make up for that, the next best thing is FaceTime. As cheesy as it sounds family is so important to me so every opportunity I get to see them is always so special!
▪️ Be more active- for Christmas I got an MK smartwatch and one of the features of it is step-tracking so I set myself a goal to do 10,000 steps a day!
That’s all for this week’s blog post! I hope you enjoyed! Although I enjoyed my time off writing and spending time with family I have definitely missed my blog and am excited to start again! If you have any New Years resolutions I’d love to know what they are in the comments below! I will see you next week for another blog post! Love you all!
Byyeee!!!!
