New Year. New Resolu----- I mean GOALS!

It can't be a new year without any new year resolutions, or what I like to call them goals. I prefer to call them goals because resolutions are always a negative trigger to me. I feel when people say they have new year resolutions it gives them a sense of trying to change something vague in their lives like new years resolutions of trying to lose weight by the end of the year or travel a lot more. New Year resolutions are never as effortful or precise as New Year Goals.

When I think of goals, I think of short-term and long-term goals. I get more precise on what I am trying to accomplish in a matter of a realistic timeline. Instead of saying I want to lose weight by the end of the year, I get more concise and really think how much I want to lose and about how long it may take.

Therefore, I really instead of making vague New Year Resolutions that may not stick, I do short-term and long-term goals.

For example, my main New Year Goal I have (I had since 2015 honesty...) is to lose weight. I actually have lost over 30lbs since 2019 (new blog about my weight loss journey coming up soon) but I still have yet to get to my fitness goal. Therefore, I have to actually sit down and really think about how I will get to that place by a given time.

My goal is to be 155lbs and be at the my most healthiest self by the end of the year. I want to have strong bulk arms and a round butt. In other words, I want to have a great body by the end of the year. That is my long-term goal because I have a whole year to achieve it.

However, I still have my short-term goals of my fitness journey. I want to weight 155 lbs by June because I will be going to Mexico and also it is my birthday month so I want to feel confident AF by summer. However, I know that my body will not be at its most fittest because building muscle takes a long progress, so I am not pushing to have a big butt and a six pack by June because it may not be doable. I mean it could be possible but by how I am trying to be fit and healthy is to lose weight slowly to help maintain it more then if I were to lose 30lbs in 5 months.

Anyways, my short-term goals is setting small goals each month to help me get to where I want to be by June. So for this first month of January, I want to be 2lbs down from where I am at now.

It's just setting small goals in short terms in order to get to your main long term goal.

Another of my New Year Goals is I want to travel more. Now I know this goal may seem unrealistically seeing how the world is currently, but I have been dreaming of traveling a lot more since growing up I never left my hometown.

Honesty, having goals to travel and go on more adventures this year seems doable. I am not even saying I will travel across Europe and Africa, but I am just saying that in months I want to travel to places I never been that are close to my hometown and even visit Mexico, the town my parents grew up at and to meet my family there since I never been.

Now if by any chance, things get better some of the places I want to visit includes going up to Seattle, possibly visit Chicago, Palm Springs in June, Mexico... and well maybe other places too but I can't be too unrealistic.

Other of my New Year Goals... wow I have many.

This year my main goal was to go and do things I kept pushing and holding back to. Things like pursuing my online blog, photography business and youtube channel career.

Woah... that is a lot of content.

I know it is. But I swear those are the main things I always wanted to pursue. Since the beginning of high school, I wanted to start a youtube channel, but I never did because I was so unsure of how to start or where but years later I am now looking back and wishing I could go back and made my dreams happen sooner. I also been wanting to start a photography business but this has been a bit more recent then youtube. I began to be interested doing photography because I wanted it to be a side hustle that I was very passionate about and enjoyed doing. Lastly, starting a Blog has been something I never dreamt of pursuing but adding all my interests together came out being a blog where I can post it all. Like a place I can post my pictures, my ideas, my content, as well as write about them- something else I love doing.

Is there more?

Honesty I guess, there is a lot more goals I have but those were the main ones. The rest of my goals I have are those corny ones that most girls have which are to become the most happiest selves by doing more self care- such as, writing, reading, and exercising more.

Those are things I have been trying to do since pre-quaruntine and honesty I do two of those. I am still working on reading more- but does reading tik toks and blogs count?

Anyways, those are my 2021 New Year Goals. Honesty, out of every year that I have gone through the same New Year Goals or Resolutions.. whatever I called them.. I know this year I will achieve the most of them... or in fact, all of them, and I know that when I do my 2021 Year Recap, I will be the most proud when I say that I know I wish I could have started sooner, but it was never to late that I started now then if I continued to wait another year for me not to reach for my dreams.

Until next time.

- Sandra Gutierrez

PS. Also let me know what your New Year Goals are and also if you call them New Year Goals or New Year Resolutions. I honesty don't have anything against resolutions, but I think I heard it being called goals as more effective in a college course that made me see it in a different perspective but whichever works for you. ;)