Hello and Happy New Year!
We've had a wonderful New Year in London with my family. No mad parties and drinking, just games with the kids and a few (slightly competitive!) adult ones!
Some people love resolutions, some people loathe them. Some people think you should strive towards goals all year round and not just make them at new year, which I guess is partly true! I like to make goals, I like to think about the year ahead and how I want it to look. So whilst I dont make resolutions as such (although lose a few pounds should probably be one!) I do like to have a plan and more importantly, make a list, if only for the simple reason of being able to check things off that list at the end of the year!
1. Make more time for my crafty hobbies
I've got so many projects I started last year but didn't finish because the dishes needed doing, or the hoovering needed to be done or I felt like I should be doing something more important. Well guess what, the dishes still need doing, the hoovering gets done every day regardless and I still haven't got any time for my crafty projects!! So I'm going to set aside maybe one day a week where I will have a few hours craft time. I've bought a Christmas cross stitch I never started, maybe I'll get it done in time for next Christmas.
2. Be better with cards and birthdays
It's a really bad habit of mine. I buy cards, sometimes I'll even write them, then they stay on my worktop in the kitchen. I don't know what happens but something in my brain fails to register that they need to go in the post box! So I'm making it a goal that I send all cards, on time this year!
3. Grow all my own veg for Christmas
You might have read that I recently got the keys to my own allotment plot. Its long been a goal of mine to grow my own veg and have dabble with a few strawberry plants, some tomatoes and herbs in my own garden. I now have a whole half a plot and my aim is to plan and grow enough veg for my Christmas dinner next year for me and my family. I'd better get planning!
4. Start a small business
I'm a bit of a serial small business starter! I've had quite a few small businesses over the last five years or so including an online fabric shop and an ironing business which for one reason or another I don't do anymore. However I miss having a focus and the drive that a small business gives you. I miss the planning and organising. My oldest little one has come up with a good idea we're looking into a bit more so watch this space I guess!
5. Grow my own peonies and David Austin Roses
Ok so similar to the grow my own veg one, but I am so bad at growing flowers! I don't know what I do to them, they just don't like me! I'm hoping I'll have more luck when I start a small flower patch at the allotment but peonies are my favourite of all time and David Austin roses are so beautiful, I have to give them a go. I may fail, but I'm going to try!!
5. Grow my own peonies and David Austin Roses
Ok so similar to the grow my own veg one, but I am so bad at growing flowers! I don't know what I do to them, they just don't like me! I'm hoping I'll have more luck when I start a small flower patch at the allotment but peonies are my favourite of all time and David Austin roses are so beautiful, I have to give them a go. I may fail, but I'm going to try!!
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| If my peonies are half as pretty as this I'll be happy! |
I think that's a reasonable number of goals for one year, I may add to them as the year goes on but those are the things I would definitely like to achieve in 2016. Do you have any goals? Or are you more a resolution maker?
Thanks for reading!
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