December made me very happy as I hope it did you. The New Year usually feels different but it doesn’t this time thanks to restrictions (self or government imposed) that are still in place. While we’d all like to believe that the new year means that our past slate is wiped clean, it often doesn’t work that way. I applaud the people who are working on being new people in the new year but very often in our efforts to make the new year count we end up repressing old issues that often show up later in an ugly way. From my personal experiences I have observed that after the high of December, January usually isn’t the best for my mental health. The pressure of doing better in the new year, the pressure of new year resolutions minus all the festive fun of December can be a bit much to deal with. While I’m no Guru on this topic and I am still very much work in progress, this post is to remind you to not take your mental health for granted in your attempts to achieve your New Year goals.
Remember to check-in on yourself every morning. How are you today?
Take out time to relax, pamper yourself and just get a break! Here’s a weekly wellbeing checklist, you could create your own according to the activities that spark joy for you.
Definitely aim for the stars, go big this year (while staying home), go after all your dreams but keep checking in with yourself from time to time. Don’t lose yourself on your way to the stars! 🙂
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How has 2021 been so far for you? 🙂
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I loved this! Love the checklists, I am trying my best and staying off social media! I am not sure if blogging counts but at least everyone here is uplifting ❤ 💖
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I don’t count the blogs as social media for the same reason. Thanks everyone! 🤗
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❤️ HAPPY NEW YEAR! I agree, the new year doesn’t feel quite as “new” and “different” as previous New Years. But I think it opens doors for time spent slowing down and definitely pampering yourself, like you said 😉 I love being able to take more baths, make hot tea and just sit with a good book now that I have more time at home this year 😊
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That sounds so good! Hot tea and hot baths in this weather = perfection. I’m glad your year has started off well. Hope you have a great 2021! ❤️
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True! I’ve been trying to stay away from here too – like get a break but it’s so difficult. 🙈 Plus the blogging family is so warm. 🤗
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Loved this ❤️ amazing you❤️
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Thank you 🤗
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Awesome, but you see i am too lazy to make the checklist 😐
also which site did you use for it?
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Hahah as am I!
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High five
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Hahah you’re young and hopefully at the best of your mental health – so you can probably skip these! 😊
Adobe Spark post!
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Yeah, I think I am!!
Thank you have a great day ahead!
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Good advice. It is all about balance, isn’t it? Here is to a healthy and happy 2021.
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Yes, hoping we all remember to achieve our goals while living our best lives.
Happy, healthy and successful 2021! 🤗
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I loved this post! Amazing ideas 🙂
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Thanks, love! Hope 2021 is going good for you.
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Thankyou! So far so good! 🙂
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I love this! The checklists are definitely helpful. 2021 has been chaotic so far, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. 🙂
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Thank you! Chaotic but productive? I hope the year is amazing for you. ❤️
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I hope it is for you, as well! And yes, exactly, chaotic, but productive. 🙂 Lots going on, but lots getting done, as well.
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Great post! We often get so caught up in wanting to be productive, efficient and, overall, better, that we forget to check in with ourselves and our mental health! I love the idea of a weekly wellbeing checklist – it shows how off-screen time and hobbies are so important as well: it’s not all about work and social media 😊
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Your comment echoed the thoughts I tried to put down in my post better than my post did!!! 🤗
Hope the first week of 2021 has been good! 😊
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You explained it brilliantly in your post! The first week has been quite good, I hope you’re having a great start of 2021 as well 😊
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Love these checklists!
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Thankeee ❤️
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Great advice! I loved the second checklist, I will definitely use it! 😃
This year the new year did feel different and not as much as a new beginning… Since we are still dealing with 2020 problems. But I’m giving it my best! 😁🌟✨🤍
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IKR? It just feels like 2020 got extended! I think I felt more excited for the new year in December. 😛
That’s so great that you’re giving it your best! I haven’t yet. 🙈 I’m going to stop cribbing and get on it. 😊
Is your winter break over?
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Yay! Good luck! 🍀👍 Yes, my first week of school was this week 😄!
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Love a good check list and never thought of using one for checking in on yourself. https://businessrulesforlife.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/how-simple-checklists-can-help-to-achieve-big-goals/
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Same – I love checklists too! Loved your post – thanks for the great checklist ideas. Happy 2021!
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I’m reminded that because I’m at home all the time now that I need to still schedule in days off and bigger breaks. You’re so right about the flatness of ringing in this year. It was a calendar switch, nothing more, in the most mundane sense.
But it looks like your being very self-aware and making the most of how we behave and looking for possible pitfalls. Smarty 😉 xoxo
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Hahah thanks! After 1st I felt the happy high I had been feeling the past few weeks slowly vanish – so planning out ahead to make sure I don’t go back to my old anxious ways! 😊
Really – 2021 just feels like 2020 extended.
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Right? God, I hope we can turn it around…
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This was very helpful and a great reminder! I’ve never thought of it this way, and I also never heard of someone’s mental health decreasing because of a new year, thanks for introducing this new thought to me
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Thank you! After the high that is December and it’s festivities, I often find that January can be a lil dull and add to it the pressures of new year goals – it does get hard!
Thanks for reading. Happy 2021! 🤗
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I like the weekly well-being check list! I should include this in my journal.
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Right? Its such an easy way to remind yourself to take a break or do something fun!
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Sometimes I wonder, how optimist people are on New Year’s eve but that all vanishes in just one bad experience or time..
Resolutions can be Resolved but we Human often omit to resolved ourselves, right? 😅😅
Good content though…😁😁
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haha I used to be an optimist too but then life happened 😛
Exactly – so many of things we want to resolve in our life starts from us resolving our own issues/habits first!
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Very good ideas with the checklists!
Keep well!
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Thanks Tamara 🙂
Have a great year ahead.
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🌸🌸🌸 my pleasure! Have a wonderful year too!
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Yep always put your mental health first ☺️
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Those checklists are awesome!
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Happy and Healthy New Year !
Great encouraging post.
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Thank you ❤️
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Welcome 🙂 (heart)
Hope you are doing well.
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