I make New Year’s Resolutions every year. It’s a thing I do. I understand that people don’t, and I understand why people don’t, but I like to set goals for myself. I made a few for this year, so let’s see if I actually accomplished any of them.
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Stop spending so much money — Did not accomplish that. Hahahahaha.
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Work out more — This did happen! I didn’t work out a lot more but it was definitely a marked improvement over last year.
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Sell stuff — I believe that I sold some clothes and a pair of headphones.
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Improve your makeup skills/routine — I started wetting my beauty blender? I didn’t used to do that?? And using highlighter? I guess this counts.
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Find even more life-changing movies/music — 100% did this! I found so much amazing music this year that I made a whole playlist for it. I watched fewer movies this year than last year, but my favorites were “Y Tu Mama Tambien”, “10 Things I Hate About You”, “Us”, and “It Part 1”. I hadn’t seen any of them until this year.
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Give less of a sh*t!!!! — Still working on it. There were definitely moments this year when I gave all the sh*ts ever, so I’m not going to say I accomplished this one.
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Wear earrings more often?? Why not right — Uhhhhh, nah, I still only wear earrings like once a month.
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Learn how to be more photogenic — I didn’t put effort into this one.
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Go on more adventures/travel — This happened! I went to Chicago, Paris, and a bunch of provincial towns in south France over the summer, and I definitely went on a few adventures this year.
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Be a good Junior Counselor at your summer camp — This didn’t occur because I didn’t get hired back this year. I ended up making more money with my babysitting than I would have had I been employed there, but I still really missed it.
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Write more plays!!! — Did this! I was on campus over the summer doing summer research which was writing a full-length play, which I hadn’t done before.
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Do well in your classes — Happy to say that was accomplished.
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Be more grateful — That’s something I can always improve, but I did work on being thankful for what’s in my life this year.
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Read more — Didn’t do anywhere near as much as I would’ve liked, so nope, didn’t succeed here.
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Get tattoo and/or second lobe piercing — Neither happened.
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Become a better person — You tell me if that worked out.
There were other resolutions too, but I omitted them because they were more personal than I’d like to share. So out of these 16, I can confidently say that I accomplished 8, which gives me a 50% resolution success rate. Which, ya know, could be worse, but could be better. Maybe I’ll be more motivated to accomplish my 2020 resolution, but I am proud of myself for setting goals and getting (some of) them done.