1. Take Notes

It’s 11pm on New Years Eve and I’m home alone going over my Moleskin which has a detailed account of my year in full. I purposely opted to stay in tonight. I’m content with my own (100% sober) company and knowing I will go into 2017 restful and without a hang over. I don’t even have a bottle of wine open, guys.

At the end of 2015 I purchased a notebook with the intention of writing my day-to-day accounts. My notes involve everything from who I saw that day, where I went, where I ate, if I went to the gym, if I had a hang over, and various other random details.

It sounds like an obsessive thing to do, but it helps me appreciate the small things.

I’m glad I stuck to it, because now I have 366 days of data to tell me I should probably drink a little less, save a bit more and say “fuckit, why not” at all the appropriate times.

If I was extremely motivated I could use this data to design a personal year-in-review but I’m too lazy for that. Eventually I’ll tally it all up because I am very curious about specific numbers like how many bars I visited or how many times I saw my parents.

I’m not one for actual resolutions so on the first page before the year starts I handwrite 2 columns: “More” and “Less”, I then write whatever it is I’d like to improve upon. At the end of the year I can reflect on whether or not I had any progress in these avenues of life.

Currently my 2017 lists are extremely similar their 2016 counterparts. My priorities are still the same but my progress still needs work.

But what’s really new, right?

Dear 2017,
Please be nice.
Love, K8