THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF 2013

Wow! Its nearly about to be another end to another year, and what a year it has been. I haven't written a bog post for about over a year now and I thought what better time then ever to start back up. 

This year for me has been filled with a lot of things that I never expected to happen and other things that I wanted to have achieved but didn't. In the middle of this year I was already unhappy with how it was going, I expected to be further along with my recovery, my relationships and my schooling. I was getting frustrated and feeling unaccomplished, but with the help of my friend and mentor I started to slowly realise I had been making quiet a bit of great change. 

You see sometimes our greatest accomplishments are the ones that are so small, that are the little steps towards our awakening to our success. Its like looking in the mirror and trying to see if you have lost weight, though the scales have said you have lost five kilos, in the mirror all you see is the same you. But when you compare a photo taken before you lost the weight, and then you look at yourself now, you see how big of change you have made. So thats what I had to do, I looked where I been and slowly but surely saw I had been making progress.  Some of those things were:

• Last year I missed 201 days of school, this year I missed 80. 
• I mentally and emotionally released a lot of emotional turmoil that I had held onto for a long time, that was in fact making me sick.
• I was keeping an above C average even though I was only going to maybe 2-1 maths class a week. But before when I was at school full time I was getting D's to C+'s, and I had gotten a B on two maths test this year.
• I had started reading Personal development books which I refused to read last year and in the past.
• I let go of an unstable and unhealthy relationship in my life. 
• I finally started to love myself again and I can't remember the last time I did that.
• I found my best friend, who I had been searching for, for a very long time.
• I started exercising again, joining Pilates and doing the Insanity workout DVD program (which yes, is insane). 
• I started affirmations.

I have accomplished so many things this year, and yeah some seem very small or not the most amazing things to be proud of, but when you see that you have at least accomplished something it makes you feel great and confident. I could easily say, which I have many times before, that its not good enough, that I should have done more. But honestly where would that get me? I would have been more miserable and feeling unaccomplished, that then leads to negative self talk and going further backwards. So ask yourself what have you accomplished or made progress on this year. It may be small or maybe even only one thing, (which I don't believe it will be). But give yourself credit and be proud of the work and progress you have made, because you have done amazing job. So happy new year to you and what a year 2014 will be. 

So what do you need to do before the clock strikes 12. 

• Write a list of all the things you have accomplished this year.
• Do your 2014 goals/ positive affirmations/ bucket list (Whatever you like to do, but set something to try and achieve, and focus on)
• Have a random dance session and let loose to celebrate the amazing year of 2013.
• Do a gratitude list, of all the things you are thankful for.
• Finally, tell yourself thank you, and that your proud of how far you have come.

Happy New Year and Till next time 

Xoxo

The Girl With Red Shoes