I always feel blue after my birthday. Like I just want to lay around all day. I got up at 10:20 today – which is not a normal thing for me to do – I slowly walked over to my computer, turn it on, and started doing the things I normally do, with a bit of sadness taking over me. Yesterday, I had a wonderful day, but there’s just something about having a birthday that makes me want to take action (clearly not the day after). So, I decided to improvise this post and set ten goals for the next 363 days. Some might call it resolutions but I don’t like resolutions, they never seem very doable. I want to make a list to check as the year goes along:
1. Go for a walk every single morning after waking up. I always keep this in my mind because I hate going straight to the computer as I get up. Sometimes I don’t even have my breakfast and bury myself in whatever I have to do that day. There was a time when I was getting up at 6 in the morning to go to the gym. This is something I urgently have to implement.
2. Always get dressed before sitting down in the computer. This is an annoying habit that, sometimes, I cannot fight. It sounds delicious to spend the day in your pajamas but you will feel better once you put your normal clothes on.
3. Clean my face every night before going to bed and every day after getting up. I already do this one but, there are days when I don’t feel like doing it – normally once a week. This has got to stop. Being closer to 30 got me thinking that my habits are defined during our 20’s and these are the years to create and develop them.
4. Be more patient. I have a tendency to burn a fuse faster than I should and feel that this can’t go on. People don’t always have to deal with your things and I must realize that sooner.
5. Work even harder at every project. In the last year or so I feel like I’m becoming softer with myself. Wether it’s a graphic design project or things I don’t necessarily love doing. If you put that much effort into something, you are going to get perks somehow.
6. Stop working for free. Such thing should not be permitted and I won’t do it anymore. You should get paid for every single work/project you do. Working for free might get you more experience but that’s about it. Companies or people cannot take advantage of the work you do and use it as their own. It’s just not right.
7. Read at least two news websites every morning after my walk and breakfast. Lately I feel like I’m going unaware of what’s going on in the world. I have to pay more attention and generally know more. Not for a conversation sake but for my common knowledge sake. I used to read the newspaper and general magazines all the time and now, I just feel like I don’t know what’s going on.
8. Answer my emails as they come in or as I read them. I have a tendency to let them lie there for at least a couple of hours before answering the ones that need answer. I cannot do that anymore if I expect people to not do the same with me.
9. Focus a lot more on the blog. Bottom line is, I love my blog and everything I do for it. I can feel myself evolving every day and getting more and more committed. But I have to work even harder to make it go somewhere.
10. Run the New York City marathon. That’s right. This one sounds more like a resolution that I won’t fulfill but I have every intention to. One of the gifts I got this year was a Polar watch, something I didn’t even know existed. And only because I told M that I wanted to do it. To be honest, I still haven’t read enough to know what it entails but I have almost a year to go and if I keep myself motivated and start a training circuit – that includes not only the exercise part but the back-end of it all – I think I can at least try. I promise to track my progress and tell you all about it here, so stay tuned.