Hi beautiful babes! I am so excited to bring you today’s blog. Today I want to talk about resolutions. I know people either love or hate this word. I feel like we either fall on one side of the fence with this or perhaps right in the middle also. There are the people who don’t believe in them, people who go all out with them and people who fall in the middle where they try their take at it but can be apprehensive at the same time. I’m not here today to persuade people to one side or the other on this matter, but to simply encourage you that no matter what time of the year it is, we have a chance each day to wake up and meet our goals, even if you have messed up the day before.
I used to go crazy about setting resolutions and start out so strong and then seem to lose my pace in one area or another at some point throughout the year. Trust me when I say I was just as happy as anyone else about 2021 ending. 2021 was one of the worst years of my life for many personal reasons. It was a year of bad things that just kept happening month after month. Every single time I thought I was catching a break, something else would happen. If I am being quite honest it has even trickled into 2022, but that does not mean that life is fully bad and that does not mean that we can’t turn the negatives into a positive.
If it is one thing that I have learned as I have gotten older it is that it is not so much about setting resolutions and becoming disappointed in myself if I fail at them, but more about setting small goals for myself each day and forgiving myself if things don’t always go as planned. In a world where we are surrounded by social media and seeing people post all about their goals and accomplishments, it can be easy to feel like you’re falling behind in life. I also want to say- it’s totally cool to be so happy for those people and root them on in their triumphs and when they are happy, but also recognize that social media is a small glimpse of people’s lives and most people are not posting the bad stuff. You are not behind.
When I was going through hard points of life this past year, I stayed off social media to take a break from the highlight reels and that is ok. It was honestly the most freeing feeling in the world because I focused on what was right in front of me instead of what was going on with people that I hardly talk to in real life.
Along with setting small goals each day this year, I also decided to pick a couple words to focus on as well in areas of life that I could improve on. Those words are focus, determination, and relationships. I am excited to take a new approach this year and I feel like I am setting myself up for success because I now know that it is ok to mess up and that each day God gives us is another chance to start fresh with those goals. I hope this inspires someone who may be going through a similar situation, and I hope that you realize that you are on your own journey and no one else’s. So, don’t be so hard on yourself, kid. You’re doing better than you think.
Xoxo, Bri
Brianna Santoro 