I haven’t ever made resolutions. My main reason is the fear of failure. If you don’t ever start something, you can’t fail at it. This applied to my school work in high school, sports, a lot more things than I would care to admit right now. For the last couple of years I’ve gotten a lot better at starting things I usually would of avoided, so this year I decided I would do a resolution.

Resolution: Build boundaries and stand by them.

Small or big.

For strangers or people very close to me.

My resolution is based off of something I think I’m already doing fairly well at, but I know their is room for improvement. Better boundaries so myself and others around me can feel comfortable.

There are a couple other things I’d like to add to my resolution list…

– Telling customers to put their mask on and not saying sorry when asking. I’m not sorry, so why would I say that.

– Mental health days. They are valid, they are needed and I will normalize them for my daughter. I’ve got to.

– Holidays. I want to spend every single one with every single family member and that doesn’t always work out. There are traditions from my childhood that just don’t work anymore and it’s ok to let those go.

– Less shopping… Insert a gigantic eye roll here. Lately I noticed that shopping has become a little bit of a self soothing mechanism and maybe, just maybe, a little bit of an addiction. Don’t worry, I’m talking to my therapist about it. More eye rolls. Also, don’t worry, I’ll make a blog post about it and over share later.

– More blog posts. This will not be a project I start and never finish. Wait, I hope it’s just that. I don’t want my blogging to have an end date.

Big resolutions and goals for this year. I figured I would base them off of things I’m already doing just a bit but hopefully I’ll get better at them.

Anyway, happy new year and thanks for reading ❤