New Year - Same Me?

“Next year things will be great!” “If I lose a bit of weight then I’ll have the life I want!” However: PLOT TWIST!  It rarely works out like you thought it would. It’s rare that something will work out exactly the way you romanticised it. And nothing is ever perfect all the time, and that’s okay.

Life may never be a Disney film – but it can still be SO GOOD without the over-the-top sparkles.

There is no “New Me.”

I don’t like to pretend that life will just magically take off and turn into endless rainbows and unicorns just because I decide to drink more water and post more inspiration quotes on Instagram or promise to myself to “dance in the rain!!!!” Newsflash to myself: Rain is usually cold, you delete everything from insta anyway, and the water thing? You hate using public bathrooms.

Here’s a list of stuff I know I will carry on doing no matter how many times I make it a New Year’s Resolution

• Working 24/7. I don’t really feel this is a problem for me yet. I am always working or getting into something new. A new org, new projects…everything. I just like to be involved to an insane amount to where I stress myself to an insane amount. It’s fine. I’m not going to make myself feel bad about it – I don’t have any kids, I’m in my twenties, so if I want to be a workaholic for the time being then so be it. I feel very lucky to love what I do and find it oddly therapeutic at times that I am so busy.
• Going to bed late. I curse myself by uttering the words “early night” and then find myself working away with my bedside lamp on something until my eyeballs ache.
• Eating unhealthily. I don’t want my body to creak and I want to live a long life so I DO want to be healthy. But I don’t want to eat a stale bland salad and then fall out with people for being grumpy. I will do my best to balance myself but I’m not making any diet plans. Eat better, do better. Major Key.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, it’s OK if there is no Overnight New You. Every day you get up and get dressed and go into the world a little bit of you is different.

So stop with all of this “New Year New You." Same you, different day.