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I cannot believe its the 12th December already.  I really thought this year would go a little bit slower, obviously I was wrong.  I've been running around doing classes at school, studying for prelims (mocks)
and balancing my social life.  Its been really tough.  Time has been
flying by even faster than last year.  As a change, I have decided to set some goals into the different aspects of my life:
Health/Fitness, Self-Love and for my Blog for the rest of December🙂.  Why have I decided to share with you all my
December goals?  I want to be held accountable for my goals and what I achieve.  I also want to be able to
check in on them at a later point as well.  Hopefully, this will help me
achieve some goals and inspire you to set goals for the reminder of this month as well. Health/Fitness:Go to the gym at least 2x a week.  I absolutely love going to the gym.  It is
great for my mind and body.  It also helps keep me feeling energised and alert. Drink more water.  I find it a chore to drink water and I'm always forgetting that it keeps my body healthy and hydrated.  My aim is to drink at least 1L of water a day for the rest of the month. 

Self-Love:Read 1 book.  I spend a lot of my time in my room,
and it is the perfect time to get some reading done.  My goal is to read one book on happiness. Blog:Achieve 1,600 followers on Twitter.  My goal is to
start the New Year with 1,600 followers.  This will be a great way to promote my
blog posts and also gain new readers for my blog. Work on my Blog’s SEO to help increase my traffic from Google. 
SEO is a great way to increase your blog’s traffic.  I want to read
about the best practices and implement those best practices. 

Don’t let your mind bully your body.  This can be tough to do, I know, but, you don’tneed thinner legs, longer hair or softer skin.  What you really need is a change in your perspective and a higher self-esteem. 

I went way for 3 nights with my family to St Monans which is one of my favourite places in Scotland!  It’s an extremely beautiful place that looks out onto the sea.  Listening to the sea is one of my favourite things, it has a way of calming my anxiety.  Getting away from the rush and buzz of city life for a couple of days has done my mental health the world of good. 

On the 10th
of October it was World Mental Health Day and given that mental
health is something I am passionate about, read up on a lot and as it is
also something that affects me directly I had to post.  For me, the purpose
of World Mental Health Day is not only to raise awareness about mental illness, self care and
to help beat the stigma surrounding the issue of mental health.  World Mental Health Day it is also about taking a
step back for a moment and celebrating all
the things that we’ve achieved.  Maybe it’s something that you achieved today,
yesterday, last week, last year or ever a decade ago.  Believe it or not, they all count! 

As humans,
we often feel overwhelmed to do everything!  Whether that be an endless to-do
lists to get through the week or the longest list of events we had
our hearts set on attending, we attempt to undertake the seemingly impossible. 

Self-care... It's kind of been a
thing that humans have done subconsciously, forever.  Putting time aside, now
and then, to look after our emotional and physical well-being, but only
recently we have given it a name. 

I find
that I always put other people before myself, even if that means that I am
missing out on the things that I want to do.  I am also a stressed and anxious
person who worries about every single thing.  Even when I get a single moment
alone, I still seem to always beat myself up about things and I know that I am
not alone in this.  We as human beings have become accustomed to putting
ourselves down and picking out all flaws.  We rarely (if ever) do it to other
people and so why do we constantly feel like it’s okay to do it to ourselves?