New Year, New You -The Only Resolution You Need to Make in 2020
First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR! We hope you have all had a wonderful festive season, filled with everything that makes you smile. Whether you’ve spent time with family, time without family, time with a loved one, friends, pets or whatever it is that brings you joy, we hope you’ve had fun!
Today on the blog we’re talking all about the most important resolution you need to make for 2020, so read on to find out more…
New Year, New You -The Only Resolution You Need to Make in 2020
This is the time of year that everyone starts talking about New Year’s resolutions. Life changes that will make you a “better” person, or that is at least what the world convinces you of!
I have started many years in this fashion, knocking up a list of things to do to improve myself and get healthy. I would pressure myself to eat less junk, go to the gym, walk the dog more, stop buying things I don’t need, spend more time with the kids, be less grumpy, less tired, less lazy and annoying. Trouble is, life happens, every day, and often I found that creating these lists of things to change about me was not necessarily the answer. It would make me more upset and angry if I slipped up, leading me to giving up on it all and cracking open a tub of Ben and Jerry’s!
I started last year a little differently to usual, as it was when I finally confronted things and came out to Kelly. I did not have resolutions as such, but instead chose to use 2019 as a starting step towards me simply being me. Obviously the year has been tough at times, as will many years to come, but by just letting myself try and be me without additional pressures, I have begun to develop a bit more strength and confidence in who I am.
2020 has started now, and Kelly and I have a few goals that we would like to hit by 2021. We don’t see these goals as resolutions, and for that we feel extremely positive. They’re things we aim to achieve by the end of the year, without the pressure of changing ourselves.
DO WE REALLY NEED TO MAKE RESOLUTIONS?
Why should you be expected to tick off every single thing on a list straight off? Resolutions are great but yet again, if you put too much pressure on yourself, you are only setting yourself up to fail, and that failure will potentially lead to you to a place even further from where you had hoped to be. Take some time for you, look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself;
‘You know what? Maybe I’m not magazine perfect, maybe I’m not the greatest musician or scientist or movie star or whatever, but I am me. No-one else can be me apart from me, and that makes me unique and perfect for me.”‘
You are perfect. You are amazing. You are you. Bugger everyone else. If they have a problem with you, how you look, sound or do things, then it is their problem. Let them feel negative about how they feel about you. It is probably an insecurity or jealous aspect of themselves, it’s not about you.
THE ONLY RESOLUTION YOU SHOULD STICK TO
Take your time and take time for you. Just make sure of all the resolutions you do make this year, BEING YOU is number one. Pure and wonderful you. This is the only one that really matters, everything else will come in time. For now, focus on who you are, and what you stand for. No one else is like you, you are unique and brilliant. So continue on your wonderful path of life, and simply…
We hope you’ve enjoyed reading this post, and that it inspires you to focus on who you are and what you need for 2020.
We’ve also recently recorded our One Year On vlog, so please go check it out!
So once again, Happy New Year, here is to a wonderful and amazing 2020. Keep being YOU.
Big hugs,
Love Zoey xxxxx
