Day 1 of 2018

Day 1 of 2018: Let’s be honest, already a rough start for me. I was so excited as the new year was approaching with some new and some recycled goals. I felt so hopeful and inspired to take on my goals full steam ahead. One of my new goals was to dive into this whole blogging thing and come up with some ideas and post away. I started a few days early because I wanted to start the year off with a bang. I thought I was so ready and going to really share something awesome on here. So I took on one of my goals and it totally crumbled in my face. I took it on way to fast and expected myself to have it completed on day one of the new year. I don’t know what I was thinking! If it’s a goal for the year, and I knew going into it that it would take time to complete, why did I get so caught up in wanting to finish it on day one?? Needless to say, ended the night in tears. But that’s okay. You know why? I learned some very important lessons through this little mishap >>

1. Take my own advice. As I look back at what I wrote for the original blog post, I clearly knew what I was talking about. Multiple times I wrote down that I need to be patient with myself. Yet, I skipped that step completely when trying to complete the tasks that I was writing about. (SMH to myself). How could I forget such an important step? Anyways, I obviously need to listen to my own advice.

2. Take my time. As I said before, my advice is to be patient with yourself. So not only do I need to listen to myself, but I need to follow through with that advice. I don’t need to rush into anything before I’m ready. This is one of the reasons my plans crumbled in my face - I wanted to finish the task so fast that I didn’t choose the best option. I just chose the fastest/easiest option that I felt I could complete on my own.

3. Help is a good thing. I can have a hard time with this sometimes because I think I can do things on my own - especially when I feel like I need to prove myself. But why? I don’t need to prove myself - especially with this blog thing since I chose to do it for myself. So who am I trying to impress all on my own? Also “two is better than one” so why not make it even better with people alongside you. I need to remember that help is a good thing. When friends and family or even strangers come alongside you to help you out, take the help! I have some pretty special people who have helped me out along the way, and I would have never been able to create such amazing things without their help.

4. This is for me. I started this blog journey as a way to share myself. It doesn’t matter if I’m the only one who reads it and learns from it (which I already am doing 😉). I created this space as an outlet for my thoughts, adventures, life, etc. It should not be something that causes me more stress on top of all the stress I already have going on.

So cheers to 2018! Here’s to learning new lessons and growing more this year, even on the first day of the year and even if my original plans completely fail 😜

Now I will get back to working my original post, but take more time, get help from others, and make it that much better. Thanks for reading along!

XOXO,

Lauren

P.S. I didn’t want to forget to show this cute work outfit. I got this perfect pink button down shirt at Forever 21 for $10. Can you believe it?? So cheap and so cute. It’s amazing!

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