Hello everyone,
I hope you don't mind me starting a thread; it's mainly an accountability thing for me and to record how I go. I've been feeling pretty down for a few years and just quite sad, not really living or enjoying anything in life, just existing.
But I look at others and I want to start living again, really living, feeling things and enjoying them. I lead quite a solitary, insular life. It was my birthday this month and I turned 38 years old. And if I don't change anything, how can I expect anything to change.
I don't want my life to look exactly the same next year or to feel exactly the same, so I've come up with some goals.
- I'd like to lose 2 1/2 stone. Hoping this will occur with some of the other resolutions I've set.
- I want to run 5k in 30 minutes. I'm building up to this and will join a running club starting at the end of the month.
- Swim 3x week, I find this good for my mental health.
- I'd like to bake one dessert every week but other than that I'd like to cut out all sugary sweets and treats. Did this years ago for 3 months and it was great.
- I really need to book some holidays and time away to go and relax. I never go away anymore, haven't been on holiday for years and am probably burnt out.
- I'm going to try and do one group dance class a week for the next 6 months and really commit to it.
- I'd love to get to an intermediate Spanish lesson, so will sign up to Spanish classes later in the summer once I've revised to a certain lesson.
I think this is it for now. I do wonder if it is still quite solitary though.