So as a few of you may remember, I did a post back in January about what I hoped to achieve this year.
I decided to take this opportunity to reflect on these aims, and see how I've come along over the last few months!
My first goal was to become more confident. This is quite a tough thing to evaluate as I don't think I'll be ever someone with complete confidence, however now that I've sat back and thought about everything I've done this year, I'm really happy to say that my confidence has grown slightly! I think the key to achieving this is just always believing in yourself and always trying to have a positive outlook on life.
Another goal was to see NCL Richard Squad more often. Unfortunately this hasn't really happened as we all have a lot of commitments, but this just means that when we do manage to see each other, it's even more special.
My third goal was to become more healthy, and, as expected, chocolate won this battle. I managed to eat healthily for about a month before resorting to good old mars bars. There's always next year, right?
I also aimed to read more books. This has definitely been achieved, and I've read such a wide variety of fiction books! I think my favourites would have to be Behind Closed Doors and Me Before You.
One of my main goals was to see Brad as much as I could. This happened in a bit of a whirlwind, as I met the boys 4 times in the space of 5 days back in April, but I haven't met them since, and don't have anything guaranteed for the rest of the year. I'm being optimistic about Fusion Festival and the possibility of book signings though- and you should too!
I aimed to start to use a better routine for my hair and my skin, which I've half achieved. I've become much better at looking after my skin, using a good routine every morning and evening. This particularly helped at exam time, preventing any major stress related breakouts. I'm still working on the hair routine though- any tips would be welcome!
Probably the most exciting thing I've achieved is finally getting myself a part time job. I'm really happy about this as it's something I didn't think I'd achieve, but now I have I can finally have some money to buy myself the things I want.
Unfortunately I haven't managed to find any work experience in media, because any time I contact somewhere, they tell me I need to have had experience.I mean where's the logic, I need experience to get experience?!
I've managed to improve ever so slightly on guitar, using the little free time I have to teach myself some new chords. Here's hoping that by the end of the year I'll have come even further!
Now, exam results are something that terrifies the best of us. The lead up to results day was quite possibly the most stressful time EVER, But, it turns out I was stressed for no reason, because I received far better grades than I'd ever expected. They may not have been 'the best of the best', but that wasn't what I aimed for, I wanted grades that made ME happy- and that's what I got!
So that's how my 2016 has gone so far. I'm proud of myself for how far I've come. I really hope that by the end of the year I'll have achieved even more. I'm also going to do my best to get into more of a pattern for uploading to my blog- whether or not that happens is something that only time will tell!
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