New Year’s Resolutions 2020

I’ve always made my resolutions in categories in my life. It helps me find balance. And with the new youth program from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I just tweaked my format to follow theirs because it’s such a great program and I wanted to follow it even though I’m not even close to being young enough. I’m young at heart, right?

Spiritual Goals

• Meditate Daily
• Read Scriptures Daily
• Keep a gratitude journal

Social Goals

• Post to my bookstagram account regularly
• Have board game date nights
• Have movie nights or lunch dates with my friends

Physical Goals

• Do yoga daily
• Keep a food diary
• Exercise 5x a week
• Pretrack my food in my weight watchers app to help me lose weight
• Take a shower and wear makeup every day. Wearing makeup gets me to actually wash my face at night and when I do it consistantly, my skin stops breaking out and looks so much healthier.
• Marie Kondo my house

Intellectual Goals

• Take a Masterclass on writing by Neil Gaiman and makeup by Bobbi Brown
• Bullet journal daily
• Read 20 minutes daily in a physical or ebook
• Blog weekly

A lot of my goals are daily goals. I love the streaks app because for some reason it’s motivating for me to do something today if I’ve already done it 5 days in a row. I will also bend over backwards to keep my 169 day streak in meditating. I don’t know why it works for me but it does.

So the main thing I’m working on to achieve these goals is a sustainable daily routine. So far, I take a shower when I first wake up because I was wasting time in bed on social media for an hour because I was too cold and groggy to get up. I have always showered every other day because my hair is too dry to wash every day so I just washed my face on days that I didn’t shower. I love showering every day! I wear a shower cap and go longer between washing my hair and it’s been so much healthier. I prayed for help this year to know how to achieve my goals and I was inspired to make that one small change. After I showered, I was awake and warm so I did my makeup quickly and then did yoga and meditation. By that time, I was able to eat (I have to take meds on an empty stomach 1 hour before eating which was why I justified staying in bed on social media). With that one small change, I had achieved 4 of my 12 daily self-care goals before breakfast and I was able to keep myself occupied while I was waiting to eat that I felt good about.

I’m still working on finding time to blog and post to instagram. So far I’ve done it in the afternoon sometimes, but nothing consistent yet. My evening routine involves reading my scriptures and exercising.

I don’t have a routine for reading but I programed my phone to start the reading timer as soon as I open my ebook app and I read an ebook when I’m waiting for things or I want a break for five minutes. By the end of the day, I’ve easily hit 20 minutes even though I’m reading in 2-3 minute chunks.

Bullet journaling is the habit I struggle with the most. I have not found a good routine for it yet, but I will keep praying for ideas and looking for inspiration from my friends and family.

I wanted to find a scripture that would help me stick to my goals and I loved this phrase from Romans 2:7 “…patient continuance in well doing…” I feel like my biggest challenge is going to be trying again each day no matter how I did the day before.

The youth program also has a place to write a way you are going to celebrate finishing your goal. If I’m getting 70% achievement in all my goals, I’m going to buy myself a new smart watch. My husband is keeping me accountable and I’m so excited.

What New Year’s Resolutions do you set? I love hearing about other’s dreams and goals!