Halooo lovely people! The scent of a fresh new year has dawned upon us. Can you believe its already 2016? In another 4 yrs, we'll be hitting the 2020s mark so I'm actually quite in disbelief that we're actually going to like survive the 2020s. Now, don't call me a pessimist but it's like heading into a new millennium, and honestly it's a lot for me to take in.

Anyways, I bet everyone has already planned their new yr resolution, the typical mindset that we all have: NEW YEAR, NEW ME. Yes, in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with setting a fresh new mindset at the beginning of every year. I mean, at least you try setting goals and resolutions to become better than the previous year. The only problem that everyone face is actually sticking to the resolutions throughout the year. A lot of things can happen in a year, so you may end forgetting your resolutions. But it's always better to make effort than nothing at all. 

So, yes I admit that I make new lists of resolutions every year and no, I don't stick to them throughout the whole year (that's quite impossible actually lol) BUT one tip that I found handy is to divide my resolutions into categories. Since the past couple years, I divided my new yr resolutions into SHORT TERM RESOLUTIONS and LONG TERM RESOLUTIONS.

For the long term resolutions, these are the goals that you want to maintain throughout the whole year(hopefully). For example, i want to lose some weight, or i want to pray on time. Usually, the long term ones has something to do with changes that i expect to happen by the end year. So the long term resolutions take action throughout the whole year, or the few more years to come. As for the short term goals, I divided the goals into months, so they're like monthly goals; what I expect to achieve in a time of a month. And it can indirectly have a connection with your long term plans.

Ex: 

long term plan: i wanna lose weight

short term plan: January- lose 5 kg

                                      -  Go the gym every Monday, Tuesday and Sunday

                          February- lose 10 kg etc

Another tip is to make sure you set realistic goals; goals that you know you're capable of. Above is an example on how these whole resolutions co-relate. By doing this, it helps me a lot to be on track of things that I expect to achieve monthly or end of the year. And it would be so much better if you have weekly or daily goals/to-do-lists. I learned that ORGANIZATION is key. Write down these goals into a book that you use daily/planner or your phone, and remember to glance through them every now and then, as a reminder: "bij, you have to goals to achieve!!!"

!!!!Another tip is to make sure you set realistic goals; goals that you know you're capable of.!!!

However to organize daily is kinda hard, especially when you're good at procrastinating  and you're not the type to follow schedule. As for me, I'm the type to make a schedule/plan but to follow it....., its another whole thing. Like I would write down plans, but I wouldn't necessarily do them on time aka I would procrastinate, yeah.

Regardless, it's a new year and it won't hurt to make resolutions. When you want to achieve something, it starts from the intention, it starts from your heart (deep tak>>) 

And guess what, making this blog post is in my January goals, but I'm actually kinda left behind with the time, so....... 

I hope you guys found this post helpful if indeed you are making new yr resolutions. And if you haven't, it's never to late to start. Better late than never. 

Goodbye! Have a great new year :)