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Lessons Learned and Goals Set

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If there's one thing from the journal that is most important to immortalise on the internet, it's the pages where I detailed what I learned in 2018, and goals I'd set for 2019. They're the most important pages because I really don't want to forget what the highs and lows of 2018 taught me, nor do I want to lose sight of what I want to achieve. I can't forget what I've learned because then my experiences would have been for nothing, and I want to learn from them and move on. They may be long pretty personal in places, but I think we can all learn something from each other's lessons learned and goals set. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” - Oprah Winfrey WHAT WE LEARNED IN 2018 It's only embarrassing if you're embarrassed I spent too much time focussing on what other people thought of me in 2018. I would sit and think for hours about something embarrassing I'
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The Beginning: Beaches, Books and Biscuits.

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It began, as all good stories do, with a book. A really really pretty book. A pale pink, leather-bound notebook with gold trims that was, quite frankly, to die for. It was far too pretty to use as a day-to-day note book in uni lectures, and equally too pretty to go to waste sat on my desk, and so I decided I had to write something in it that would make it worth keeping. I began with lists of films and books I wanted to watch and read that year, goals I had set for 2019 and what I'd learned in 2018 (it was of course the beginning of a new year, hence the sudden ridiculous need to do something new), and then carefully, albeit poorly, wrote 'January' in a swirly, fancy font, predictably copied from Pintrest. Then I wrote out my favourite poem for this time of year, Ring Out Wild Bells by Tennyson, in an attempt to inspire myself to expel my old, lazy and uncreative ways. Then naturally I got stuck. I had nothing to write. I trawled Pintrest and other people's blogs on jo
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