What are your goals?

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October 24, 2022

Looking at where I am in my life right now, I would say that I am pretty anxious and overwhelmed because I have a lot of things on my plate. I was pondering about the future and had the idea to set goals for myself on things I want to improve on, and things that I want to make a habit because I feel as though they will benefit me in the future.

1. Alone time

I have realized that personally alone time is more beneficial to me than I realized. To improve my overall wellbeing and mental health, I want to focus on giving myself at least an hour of alone time each day especially want to have that alone time before I go to sleep at night. Although I am a very extroverted person and am outgoing, I noticed that I am also very introverted and if I don't get alone time each day then it does more harm than good.

2. Journaling

I have journaled in the past when needed to depending on if I wanted to write about what I was feeling instead of bottling it up inside. I feel that this would be beneficial to me because I could write down a worry or something that I was feeling and no one else would have to know. Studies have shown that journaling is very beneficial towards mental health and I want to get back into that healthy habit again.

3. Talk about my feelings

I have learned that talking about my feelings with someone helps manage my anxiety and calms me down. It helps me feel like I am not alone and that people can relate to what I am feeling, but I tend to keep my feelings to myself and bottle them up. It is always scary at first talking to someone and being vulnerable but in the end I am always glad that I did it. So my goal is to ultimately not bottle up my feelings and express them.

4. Meditating

In one of my blog posts, I talked about some podcasts that I listened to and one of them in particular I listened to because it was a guided meditation. I used to be very consistent with listening to a guided meditation at least every other morning but I kind of got out of the habit. I did see a difference in the way I started my dad and how I felt so I want to try and get back in the habit of doing that. I completely stopped so at least doing it once a week would help me get back on track.

5. Live in the moment

I have a problem of always worrying about the future. I tend to get anxiety from the unknown and start to worry about all of the possible outcomes in my future. I want to focus more on living in the present and and not putting all of my time and energy into worrying about the unknown. This has always been an issue of mine so I want to try and fix it the best I can.