My birthday is coming up at the end of this month and I'm feeling all sorts of ways about it. I'm pretty excited for another birthday for several reasons: I love to party and hang out with my favorite people, one of my top love languages is gifts so I like getting surprises on my bday, good food and cake, and maybe I like being the center of attention sometimes. I'm also a little weary to be turning 25 for other reasons: I have a college degree that I feel like was useless, I still have the hardest time waking up before 9am, I haven't reached any dreams or goals I've set for myself (blogging, health, YouTube, writing a book, etc.), and I am pretty lazy when it comes to cleaning our home. Well, I want to air out some of my goals and fears here, whether I reach them this year or in 20 years, so maybe this will make you feel a little better about not reaching your goals yet. Or maybe you have, so my lack of trying can make you feel better too. :P
I have this passion to write and share with people. I don't know why but I've always enjoyed sharing my life and experiences with people, but also connecting with them personally and listening to their own life journeys. There are several different ways that I imagine doing that.
First is this blog. I want to share my life, hobbies, and worries so I can connect with people that have the same things going on in their lives. I want people to feel loved and cared for and to feel a little less alone in this big world, even if it's only through words on a screen.
Second is writing a book. For the past couple years I've had this dream of writing an autobiography. Now, I'm only a 25 year-old mid-western girl. I think that my life story isn't anything out of the ordinary, but I want to share my personal experiences in different areas of my life in book form and I think it would be one of the coolest things to accomplish.
My final wish to connect and share with others is through YouTube. I have enjoyed watching beauty gurus and comedians on YouTube for several years and I would love to be on the other side of the screen, but being on camera is much harder than typing out thoughts. And I know that recording, editing, and promoting is such a long process and much harder than it seems.
I also want live a healthy life. Now I don't just mean eating healthy and working out. I want to create healthy every day habits: getting good sleep, waking up consistently, skincare, having healthy relationships, pursuing God daily.
I have friends that are in different life stages: parents, married, single, working full time. So it can be hard to get together or make time to connect with them. I have been working on getting enough sleep and waking up at the same time every day. But seriously falling asleep is hard for me and waking up is hard, but I love the sleeping in between. The eating healthy and working out is pretty difficult for me too. I can't ever seem to stick to a workout routine, and eating healthy takes quite a bit of planning. Mostly all of these things take commitment and being intentional about my time and where I spend it.
I want to be a better wife and homemaker. I don't want a 9-5 job for the rest of my life. Once we start having children I would like to be a stay at home mom and even homeschool my children. Now, I know that being a stay at home mom is a huge undertaking, cleaning, cooking, entertaining and keeping people alive 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So since we don't have little minions running around the house yet, I want to start improving on my current homemaking skills.
I'm not the best cook, I tend to leave things sitting on the table longer than necessary, I could vacuum and dust more often, and I could spend more quality time with my husband doing something other than watching tv. I know that once we have a home with kids running around things will get chaotic and sometimes the dishes have to be left for another day, or someone might need more snuggles and the clothes have to be folded tomorrow. So I want to take better care of my husband and home now, before our schedules and lives change when kids enter the picture.
I want to travel more. This can happen in all stages of my life, but I would love to get to see more of this world and have new experiences. I feel like I've done more travelling than I ever dreamed of doing already, but now that my husband has taken me to Mexico and Australia I've got a bad case of wonderlust. It seems so funny though, because as much as I want to travel the world and see new things, I'm also excited to have a house full of kids out in the country one day. And both of those dreams can be mighty expensive, so I'll have to plan those out the best that I can!
I guess my next step in tackling these goals and dreams is to set some sort of plan into action. I need to make attainable goals that I can reach every day, that can get me one step closer to my dreams. I love organizational tools and making lists, so I'm going to jump in and start searching Pinterest for ideas. (That's what everyone does right?)
I wanted to share my dreams and faults with you though because life can be overwhelming. On social media people only post and share their best selves, and that's not real. So here I am, all my messy and laziness all over this blog post! And now I can get out there and start working harder to attain these goals!
Let me know what dreams and goals you have. Are yours similar to mine? Have you achieved one of these things that you can give me pointers on? Please talk to me in the comments! Thanks for being here!
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