Tips on Creating New Years Resolutions

Hello and welcome back to my blog! I hope you are enjoying the start of your winter break or, if you are finishing up finals, that they end up going well. The year is coming to an end as you all know, so I decided to give my own personal tips on creating a new years resolution list for 2019. If you are the type of person to think about new years resolutions, please read on! I hope my tips help you and thanks for visiting my blog!

Many people use the start of a new year to work towards goals that reflect personal development. I made a list at the end of 2017 for 2018 and some of the goals I had included:

- Increase my GPA in the winter 2018 semester by .30

- Go to church more often

- Take more time to talk to my family (I live 4 hours away from home)

My first piece of advice is to create goals in different areas of your life. Based on the few goals I listed above, they each represented a different part of my life: academics, religion, family. My second piece of advice is to create goals that are for the purpose of YOU, not for anyone else. Personal development begins when you choose to focus on yourself and what you are capable of /what your potential can be. I am working towards a career in marketing after I graduate, and I am constantly wanting to learn more about it. This year I started using Youtube to learn more about marketing. One of the Youtuber's that has influenced me is Patrick Bet-David through his Youtube channel called: "Valuetainment". He not only makes videos that teaches viewers about entrepreneurship, personal selling, marketing, etc.... he gives advice about personal development. I have included a few of his Instagram quotes below that I keep in my phone:

Overall, if you choose to put together a new years resolution list it should reflect the areas of your life that you want to improve and have high importance to you. It can range from raising your GPA and joining a club to putting aside half an hour a day to reflect on your thoughts. Creating a new years resolution list should be fun and exciting, because you are working towards bettering yourself. It shouldn't be something you do that results in you blaming or hating on yourself. As cliche as it sounds, so much can happen in one year and each year... scratch that... every day is an opportunity to improve!

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