This should have been posted last year but I am never good with time-sensitive blog posts lol. Despite my lack of punctuality though I feel like I did well with my goals from 2022.
Learn to Drive
I am actually making progress on this one! So I think the last time I wrote about my goals, I was trying to get an instructor and I am happy to report I found one! I have been taking lessons since the end of July last year and it’s actually going well, I’m not going to lie, some weeks it feels like it’s a bit shaky but I’ve definitely come a long way since I first started.
I also went on a few lessons with my boyfriend last year, though this turned out exactly how we thought it would. Disastrous lol I was just super nervous driving his car and so I was on edge the whole time. He also just got a new car so I doubt we’ll be doing many more driving lessons together.
So yeah I am feeling optimistic about it and will need to rebook my theory test again since mine has long expired lol. Don’t know whether to be excited or slightly scared about being out on the roads in 2023 but I’m glad I’m finally doing it.
Blog More
I think this one has been good this year, a bit hit or miss considering I think about blogging about stuff and then lots of time passes and I don’t do it lol. For example, my Comic Con posts were months later just because I was meaning to write them and never did.
I think I need to work on not putting so much pressure on what I’m writing. Which is easier said than done since I always think about this but I’ll work on it. I mean sometimes there genuinely isn’t anything to blog about but other times I know I can do it so I just need to make time for it.
I will continue to work on blogging this year, and for as long as I have a blog.
Read 22 books
Smashed this one. But I knew I would lol. I’m pretty sure I was close to reaching my goal when I did my mid-year check-in so something would have had to go seriously wrong for me not to reach it.
And as always I will continue on reading in 2023, I am excited to finish up PLL and dive into new things this year.
Learn a Language
I’d say I am doing okay at this. Mainly because I am just doing Duolingo. And my streak is going strong, almost at a full year now. That being said, there’s definitely been more than a few streak freezes used, and days when I was just doing a quick repeat lesson to keep the streak. So I can’t say I’ve been working my hardest at it.
Still, I have been learning a few things. Though as time goes on I know it’s not really sustainable for learning a language, especially when you only ever learn really specific phrases, and I’m never really challenged to do it myself. Like, yeah you have to write a phrase in Korean based on English but you see the phrases in Korean all the time because it’s always the same stuff. So am I really learning anything other than how to memorise very specific sentence structures?
I mean either way I’m not fussed about not learning how to speak a language. I had this as a goal because I thought my boyfriend and I would do it together but he ended up bailing lol. I will still keep up with the Duolingo though in the new year, as I think it’s a good thing to keep the brain active and working ya know? So we see how it goes.
Spend more time with friends and family
This one has been hit/miss as I feel like I have spent lots of time this year with friends like I’ve been out with my friends from school, work and pole. It’s been a busy year for me and socialising.
But in terms of family, I definitely have not been spending as much time with them and I think half of it is because I’ve been busy with other things lol. I filled 2022 with doing the most it seems so I feel like I need to take more time to rest, but also make time for family. I didn’t see most of them until Christmas in 2022 so it would be nice to see them more than once a year. I definitely think learning to drive will help though, because I’ll have more freedom to travel rather than being confined to public transport, which is becoming more and more annoying to me recently but we won’t get into that.
So yeah, not the worst but not the best.
Make progress on my house
We did make progress on the house but also feels like we currently just have another incomplete room lol.
Currently, the ensuite is tiled which it wasn’t before this year but the rest of the ensuite is not put in. And we have the basics of our new kitchen in which is exciting but the plastic is still on all of the doors because we still have the painting, tiling and other things to do.
So we are getting there, I am hoping after the kitchen and ensuite everything else magically falls into place but it’s a big undertaking, especially when doing it yourself. Still, looking forward to the day when it’s all done and we can just enjoy the space we have.
Exercise consistently
I think I did well with this, at least in terms of pole classes I was good. I went almost every single week and I’ve made a lot of progress which I am so proud of myself for.
Hoop classes kind of fell off for me in the second half of the year just because my Saturdays were taken up by other things but I am slowly getting back into it. That being said, it would be easier to do a class during the week if I could but the timings just never add up for me. So it’s a come-and-go thing which is fine.
There was also a period of time when I was doing pole practice, KPop Dance class and pole class for a few weeks and that was a lot lol. So I mean it’s about balance. I’m not too mad about not doing tons of exercise I think as long as I keep what I’m doing I’m doing all right.
Plus who knows? Maybe when my boyfriend and I get the house sorted we might actually make it to the gym again lol.
And so, those were all my goals from 2022 and what I achieved with them. I have to say I’m proud of myself for actually making progress with the goals. I mean usually, you have ideas about stuff you wanna do in the new year and never do them so I’m proud these were achievable and I was doing them.
Do I have goals for 2023? Yes and no. I mean I have a couple things I wanna do but I don’t really know if I’ll make a post talking about them. It’s mainly just keeping up the driving and get Invisalign but I have already started talking to someone about that so it’s happening lol.
But this was good and just like the start of last year I feel very motivated for this year and doing things so I am hoping to keep up the momentum and make the most of the year. And hopefully, I will keep up the blogging along the way!
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