The 2010's has honestly been the weirdest decade I have experienced in my short life. It could honestly be because I've gone through this in my teens and early 20's, or because it wasn't all that I thought it would be. A year ago, I wrote a piece on how I wasn't excited about the upcoming year (which would be this current year). After reading it again a year later, I realized that maybe resolutions are not so bad after all. I spent this final month of the decade thinking about how I could make my life better, which is why I'm writing tonight. Hopefully this finds you as optimistic as I am for the 2020's.
Work Flow
As many of you may know, I currently work in retail. Shout out to all my coworkers if you are reading this! Everyone knows that working in retail is not exactly the most pleasing experience (sometimes I want to throw one of the registers across my store), but the one thing I enjoy about my job is that I have a good team by my side. This section, however, is not about my retail job. My goal for this new decade is to finally kick start my career in journalism. I have so many projects that I want to accomplish this upcoming year to add on to my portfolio. Hopefully I can expand my blog through social media marketing, start a YouTube channel, and work on my novel that I have been rewriting for the past six months. Maybe I can juggle all of this and keep my retail job without having a mental breakdown.
Save Save Save!
Being a college student with a part time job is not exactly the easiest in terms of finance. Just like my fellow Americans, I will have student loans to pay off once I receive my bachelor's degree in (hopefully) a year. I'm not going to lie and say that I haven't been irresponsible with my spendings since I started working, so I asked my husband to help me come up with a better budgeting plan for the new year. This is definitely going to be the hardest part of my resolution; but if it means that we can finally buy our dream house and I can buy my dream car before the age of 30, then being Mr. Krabs is a step I'm willing to take.
Rebuilding Health
When I say "rebuilding health," this could mean many things. Anytime that I was obviously in a really bad mood and I didn't want to talk about it, my sisters and husband would tell me that I need to start taking care of my mental health because all of the negative things that I would bottle up inside is not the best way to cope. We're living in a time where mental health is a very crucial, yet often ignored subject. President Trump has often used mental health as a reason for most of the mass shootings and other heartbreaking crimes during his presidency, making it hard for people to seek the help they need.
This section is not just about mental health. I also plan to work on my physical health by eating better and squeeze in more exercise in my free time. My husband and I are planning on having kids in the near future and I don't want to have any health complications interfering with our family plans.
Keeping a Clean Social Circle
One of the most important lessons that I learned the hard way this year was that some friends are there for you in the long run and others are best left behind. If I ever want to be like Carrie Bradshaw, I need to know who my Charlotte, Miranda, and Samantha are. In this new decade, I will be leaving a lot of people behind and bringing a few select with me. If you are making the same step as me, make sure that the people that you are keeping close by are not toxic and don't cause you any distress. Another thing to keep in mind when choosing your friends is to remember that you will never have a dull moment with them and that you are happy with their company.
As you can tell, I have big things planned for the not just a new year, but a new decade. I hope to fill my website with exciting new content for the time to come. As I close this final blog post of the year, I want to wish my subscribers a happy and healthy new year and decade!