This year I have only one New Years’ resolution!! (apologies in advance it includes a curse)

2020 IS MY FUCKING YEAR!

Now….. in order to make it my year I did what I do best and set out an excessive personal development plan in pink and blue which includes 11 core goals each with scheduled milestones to achieve. So those whom are picky may believe me to have near a 100 resolutions but no…. just the one!! The rest are goals to get me there.

Today marks two years since I started this blog page! However, I have abandoned it for nearing a full year. Many reasons took me away from it but now I am back and one of my goals is to stay with it.

So, this post will be a little more about the one resolution and a quick review of a decade past by (brief I promise).

ONE RESOLUTION

Just before breaking up for Christmas I was having a conversation with this wonderful lady and we were talking about personality traits (mainly mine might I add).

Towards the very end of our conversation she said;

“You need to spend more time being as good to yourself as you are to others and most importantly you need to realise how good of a person you really are”

That is probably one of the hardest compliments I have ever had to accept…. Well to be honest I am still trying.

What it did make me realise was that there were some serious truths in it and that I now, without being a total b**ch in 2020, need to find a way to put me first (at least at times).

Thus, came the idea of my one resolution! This is my fucking year and I own every bit of it!!

THE GOALS

When I put together the visual plan and  surrounding this resolution it looked a little something like this;

The visual plan was then divided into these 11 core goals;

• #Goal 1            My Home is Where My Heart Is
• #Goal 2            Writing (I am on it)
• #Goal 3            Reading (I am so on it thanks to the wonderful Mark Johnson!!)
• #Goal 4            Financial Planning
• #Goal 5            My First Marathon (only 144 days to go)
• #Goal 6            Family & Friends
• #Goal 7            Self Development through leaning and through my career
• #Goal 8            Travel & Music (and lots of it)
• #Goal 9            Hiking

The last two are the scary ones!!

• #Goal 10 –  ❤️
• #Goal 11 – ME

So I was thinking that I may use this blog as my accountability holder! To share my progress on each of the above goals.

A DECADE GONE BY

Wow a decade… that is like a very long time and at the start of it I was thirty and at the end of it like 40!! Ah, so what, I love it! I am having so much fun.

Myself and my older brother have been trying to explain this phenomena to our younger brother (still in his 30s and with a new-ish baby)!!

Looking back on the last decade opened my eyes to the sheer amount of stuff that happened in the last 10 years;

2010 – Can’t remember. It is simply too long ago. Only messing…. Kind of. First year of creating a new Christmas world – skiing with the gang.

2011 – Started my own business!!! Massive leap J

2012 – The year I gave up the cigarettes for good!!

2013 – Went to college for the first time and ran into this Clare woman! Mad as a brush, fabulous like cake on your birthday and gosh if she thinks she can get rid of me, she will have to think again!!

2014 – First visit to the big Apple!! Dreams passing me right by!

2015 – Graduated from college and kept hanging with that mad Clare woman!!

2016 – One event that turned me upside down! Literally!! Strictly Come Dancing West Clare GAA Style!! Amazing memories treasured forever.

2017 – This year was a lot about water!! A cruise with my wonderful mum to start the year and an amazing trip to Lough Derg where I got the opportunity to Kayak with a wonderful giggling bunch of hardcore women!!

2018 – One of the more significant years in this last decade for me at a very personal level which really took me out of my comfort zone. I started hiking, musicing lots, laughing and crying a lot more and certainly learning a lot more about myself.

2019 – Oh so many memories!! First ever half marathon, abseiling out of Thomond Park, lots of music events, lots of great friends, my daughter closing the door on childhood, my 40^th which I spent celebrating as a volunteer in the most magical of places; Barretstown, travel for work and leisure… oh this list can go on.

Maybe just because I can remember some of it!!!

There we are, first blog post of the new decade. A simple start, albeit I feel a bit cobwebby in my writing abilities!

Here is a toast to 2020 and all the magic that it is about to bring!!