2024 Style resolutions

plus reflections on the past year.

Happy New Year lovely friends. I hope you had a lovely restful break and are ready for 2024. All I have done these past few weeks is eat crap, watch a load of TV and been a complete lazy arse!

It was needed and I’ve enjoyed every last bit of it.

But as I sit here and reflect on the past year and think about 2024 I can feel the anxiety kicking in. I don’t know what it is about the start of a new year, but I always feel worried about what is coming. I put a ridiculous amount of pressure on myself and get myself in a bit of a tizz worrying about it all but it’s so unnecessary and so pointless.

I don’t normally like making big resolutions. I feel that putting any kind of extra pressure on ourselves at this time of year usually just results in disappointment a few weeks into January, and I really don’t want to start the year feeling like i’ve crumbled at the first hurdle! So making big decisions to change or do something seems like I might be setting myself up for failure.

I’ve been looking at everyone’s 2024 IN and OUT list that have been cropping up on Instagram and I did actually write my own list. However, I’ve just kept it in my notes folder as I started to doubt myself again worrying that I won’t ‘stick’ to my promises. It’s a never ending inner battle with my own self. Honestly I’m exhausting!

If you want a gander at my IN/OUT list, here it is below. But I’m not promising anything!