Goals for 2018

OMG Good riddance to 2017. Talk about a shitty year. At least it is behind me and I can focus on making 2018 rock. I have decided to really become the person that I want to be I need to stay focused and what better way to do that than to set goals?! I need to be able to wake up each day and be all like THIS is what I must do if I want to make this year be awesome. I think that was a big problem I had in 2017 is that I fail to set any real concrete goals and then when the depression hit I was up shit creek and I felt as if I had nothing to anchor me and so I flared around for six months. Once I set goals though I got well quickly so to prevent a readapt of last year here are my 2108 goals.

Go paleo and stay paleo

A couple years ago if you have been reading the blog that long you would know that I was hardcore paleo for about 8 months and I had great success with it. The Holiday rolled around and I fell off the wagon HARD. iN 2017 I really struggle in a lot of ways in my life and mental health. I had one of the worst and longest depressive episodes since I was diagnosed with bipolar in 2007. I had gotten really lazy about the self-care and in vernal taking care of myself. I stopped excreting I ate like crap and before long I started to feel like crap.  It was a vicious never-ending cycle. I finally one day got fed up and dragged my butt to the gym and thus started my slow ascent out of the hell that 2017 turned out to be. I finally got back on the excessive bandwagon and have stayed there but I know if I want to THRIVE and be at my best I need to focus on my diet and way of life. I have tried almost every diet under the sun and I can honestly say I have never felt beer than I di when I was Paleo. I don’t want to merely exist I want to thrive and to do that I got to fit ALL of the parts of my life together and I feel that the Paleo framework as a whole offers what is best for me.

Exercise at least 5 days a week

I am REALLY aiming for every single day but I know shit happens and comes up so  I am bumping it down that I must workout 5 days in any week. The way if I do get sick or something then it won’t derail me. INTEND TO BE AN ALL OR NOTHING PERSON. LIKE IF I MISSED one WORKOUT I glide in a downward spiral and shitty things happen. I get sick, I get depressed among other things so it is best to be firm about all of this and JUST DO THE DAMN Workouts!

Read 200 books

This has been a goal of mine for years and years. I am determined to do it this year though. According to Goodreads I only read like 32 books this year That is not even really enough to make a top ten list of any kind frowny face 2018 once my brain gets back to running on fat fumes I will be able to blow through books. Again notice how diet and exercise lies a bedrock to the OTHER stuff that you want to accomplish.

Read more than self-help books

I am sooooooo burned out on self-help books. I figure I already know the most important stuff in self-help I just need to implant what I have learned in my day.

Learn to cook well

I can sort of hack a meal together but not very good ones. A sizable portion ends up in the trash. This year I am gonna sit my but down practice practice practice until I can cook like all the paleo Masters

Learn Photoshop

For some reason, photoshop hs started to make sense more and more and I am finding that my brain must have expanded to allow that much more information to get through my skull. I am talking full advantage and I m looking around at photoshop courses as I write this.

improve my photography

I have a fancy pants camera that I still dunno how to really use considering I had it for six months now. I REALLY want to be able to post pretty stuff on Instagram so gotta get to prating. So I can wow people with my Instagram.

Catch up and stay current with my arc

I have a zillion ARC’s I finally buckled down and put them all in Asana that way in the future I can just put when they are due. I figured I need two days to read and write a review. Asana now has a start project date so I can put start reading it a week or so in advance and hopefully, the quality of my reviews will go up

Keep up with my morning routine

I have a routine that I stole from The miracle morning that works wonders for me. I need a routine to set me up for the day. If I dot to go to the gym I feel like I am not really getting ready to work and will most likely play around all day and nothing of importance will get done.

Become fiscally responsible

I used to think I was poor until I got a college friend of mine to tally up everything that I made and fuck me damn if I wasn’t upper middle class! She then pointed out where I was quite literally hemorrhaging money. Talk about a wake-up call. In 2108 I am gonna get control of my money and then maybe I won’t feel broke all the time.

Be more Active on social media

I used to be so good about updating my twitter and Facebook but I stopped doing that. No good reason. Just got lazy about it.

Invest  in my business

Before last year I was too cheap to really invest in things that will help me take my business father. I finally did make an investment in a mastermind group and last year was one of my best years to date business wise. I got my eye on some courses that I want to take in 2018.

Keep my damn apartment tidy

I wrote here about what a struggle it was to get my apartment spotless. Now that it is spotless I am gonna keep it that way if it is the last thing I do I never knew how much a mess wrecked havoc on my anxiety. Now that I know that will just be an added incentive to keep it clean.

Make Personal Development a priority

I don’t just want to live, I want to THRIVE and in order to do that need to take strategies that I read about and implement them into my life.  I did this with the Miracle Morning and it changed my life so I know most of the stuff works I justness to buckle down and do it.