2015 Goals

In my last blog post, I wrote about how excited I was about the future and things. I'm so super excited for this summer that sometimes I forget that it's still a few months away. I was re-watching was of Troye Sivan's videos, "Dear Future Me" and it got me thinking. I don't make New Year's Resolutions, but instead, I make New Year's goals. I've been doing this for quite a while actually, but I usually keep it private and to myself. But this year, I feel like sharing some of my goals with you guys, just as an extra push to complete them and and as a way to look back next year and see how much I accomplished. And yes, I know that it's February already, but it's never to late to share your goals, and I've had them written down since New Year's, so yeah.

2015 Goals

1. Get a passport

I dream of traveling the world one day, but in order to do that, I need a passport. And I want one just to have one. To say that I could go to a different country whenever I want.

2. Read more

I used to absolutely love reading, but over the last few years, I've read less and less due to having lots of homework and no extra time and then the extra time I did have I didn't want to read, but I really want to change that this year. I don't care how many books I read, but at least one every month.

3. Write more

I love writing. I've been doing it for as long as I can remember, and I still have a few stories that I've written from first and second grade. Writing is amazing, it really truly is one of my favorite things. This year, I want to do more creative writing than I did last year. I want to work on more short stories and things like that.

4. Find joy in the little things

As someone who struggles with mental illness, this is really important to me. I don't want to focus on all of the bad things. I really want to try to be more positive by finding joy in the small things. Instead of absolutely hating everything and being annoyed all of the time, I want to try to think about the few things that I do enjoy and that make me happy.

5. Take more pictures

I bought a camera recently, and I absolutely love it. It's so much fun to play with and figure how it works. This year, I want to take more pictures to have more memories. Whether I take pictures of a flower or my family, I just want something besides my blogs and journals to look back on. I want to remember the way things look/are, not just how they felt.

6. Save more
I'm actually a pretty decent saver of my money. I tend to take any money that I make and put it directly into my savings account and not to transfer too much into my checking account. That being said, I do tend to buy things a lot. And when I buy things, it's usually not the smallest and cheapest purchases. For example, I bought my own camera, my own Vidcon ticket, most of my own merch, etc etc. So I really do save a lot, but I tend to spend too. This year, I want to save more.

Those are just a few of my main goals for 2015. I hope that I can look back on this post next year and say, "You know what? 2015 was a great year. I accomplished a lot of my goals." I'm not saying I will achieve every single goal that I wrote (because there's a ton more), but I'm saying that I hope to complete most of them. I really hope that 2015 is one of my best years yet.

~Maddison