Welcome

Hi Everyone.

Yes, it is a new year, and you have probably heard that phrase. You know it. 'New Year, New Me'. Yeah, this is so not one of those. I'm all for we are who we are but I'm also for being our best selves. So, this year that is my plan. I am going to be my best self.

Expectations:
I expect that it will be difficult for me because I struggle to keep myself motivated. I start something but I never continue it. But I learnt recently that it can take as long as 66 days to form a new habit. I did research this too because you shouldn't trust everything you read without finding out where the information has come from, but anyway... new habits.

Couch to 5k.
I'm definitely more of the couch currently. But the plan is to change that and (positive thinking) I am going to get better. I can't really run for any amount of time at the minute, I can maybe manage about 45 seconds. This is fine. You should never push yourself too far as to where you are actually harming yourself more than you are helping yourself. The couch to 5k I am expecting to be difficult sticking to because I don't see it as something I would do, so this is going to be my challenge for this year.

Mental Health
Mental health is definitely something that has been talked about, especially in the last year. This is an amazing thing. Mental health is something that is so important to me because I have seen how it affects people and I have experienced it myself. It's estim\ted that 1 in 6 people suffer from some form of mental health. That's a lot of people. I'll admit that I never talked to anyone about it before and it made me very alone which then lead to push people away which then made me more lonely. This was a never-ending cycle. But in September 2017 I started University. I promised myself I would make friends, get involved and be overall happier. My main issue is that I have a lot of social anxiety. I don't like large crowds (ironically, I live in a city), I find that making friends is hard because I'm scared that they won't like me and that they will judge me. It can get incredibly overwhelming. I'll talk more about this in another post, about where it stemmed from and how I'm managing it.