Resolutions 2014

1. Read: I have acquired an inordinate amount of books that I have not read. They have been taking up space on my bookshelves for years and it's time I read them. By the end of this year I plan to have read every book that I own.
2. Blog: I want to blog regularly and frequently throughout 2014. The plan is to blog every Wednesday from now until June when I will reassess my goals.
3. Study: I want to improve my grades this year. In August I decided I was going to do my absolute best in every subject. I now realise how ridiculous an idea that was. Firstly, how can anyone know what there best is? I'm not sure that's something I am actually capable of discovering. So my new aim is to study with the belief that I'll get a A in everything. As of now I'm confident that that is something I can achieve. I may prove myself wrong but that's the whole purpose of this exercise. By May I intend to get 7 A s in my summer exam.
4. Be Tidier: Every Saturday I'm going to hoover my room. In order to hoover you need to clean up the floor so that will help motivate me. Yep.
5. Be more organised: Have every moment of my life timetabled and follow it. I got a smart phone for Christmas (Sony Xperia) and I have a planner app. So now I can be on my phone and actually feel like I'm being productive. I have a timetable made out for every day of the week to help me stay focused and prioritise my tasks.

Additional Resolutions:

1. Wear more colour: I normally wear a lot of black because I'm too lazy to bother thinking about what colours work well together. Wearing bright colours make me feel more vibrant and puts me in a better mood, when they coordinate of course. Obviously I don't have much choice over the my school uniform but I can still wear nail varnish. And that's what I plan to do. Wear nail varnish every day. That'll brighten my life up foo shoo.
2. Poetry: I've discovered a new and beautiful love of poetry this year. I have always really like how poets make the words flow with such rhythm but I learned more about it this year. Specifically spoken word poetry which my friends introduced me to a couple of months ago. I want to read, write and listen to more poetry this year. Lots more.
3. Play piano: Were going to try this again this year.
4. Learn ukulele: Ditto.

DON'T GIVE UP JUST WORK HARDER!!!

happy new year y'all.

Also Setting Goals

A couple of days ago Danielle wrote a post about setting realistic goals and knowing what is the best that you can do. Before setting goals you need to figure out what your limitations are, as difficult as this might be. I like to compare setting goals to buying insurance. Before buying say, house insurance, you have to value your house. Overvaluing it is pointless because you'll end up paying a higher premium and still only ever receive compensation for the real value. Undervaluing is an equally bad idea as you won't be compensated for the necessary amount, in the event damage.
The same goes in setting goals for yourself. Underestimating your abilities will only succeed in preventing yourself from reaching your full potential and overconfidence in your capacity leads to huge disappointments when the inevitable failure arrives.

My aim this school year is to figure out what my capabilities are. I'm going to push myself to the limit and work harder than I've ever done before. I need to know honestly how capable I am in terms of academia because up until now I've always done as little work as possible without disappointing myself with complete failure. I've accepted whatever grade I got because I knew that I hadn't worked my hardest. I didn't care very much as long as I passed.

But I'm going into Leaving Cert now and I still don't know what I want to do when I leave school. Because of this I really want to keep my options wide open by getting the highest possible points I can in the exam. I plan to figure out what exactly that is by working as hard as I know how this year.