Hello, January. Hello, 2016.
Last year, I made a simple and broad New Year’s resolution, inspired by a blogger I follow who had used it the year before. The resolution was to ‘do more of what makes me happy, and less of what doesn’t’. What I loved about this was that it gave me the power to decide what to do, and how to conduct myself. It made me think before accepting things I was unsure about. It made me value the times I loved, and arrange more of them. And it’s not a resolution you can ‘fail’. If you say you’ll go to the gym a certain number of times a week, for example, and then one week you don’t, you’ve ‘failed’. With my resolution, it was ok to have a bad day, or week, or even period of weeks. You could still get back on track. Because life isn’t always plain sailing, and a year is a long time. But I think this resolution was the perfect continuation of what I had started the year before: starting to make decisions with my happiness and wellbeing in mind. It’s n...