It's hard to believe that we are already into the second week of the new year. Since my last article was all about goal setting and New Year's resolutions, I think that it is important to revisit 2016 and reflect on the year that just pasted. For me 2016 was full of life lessons, starting from my first Field Period in January to finding inner happiness on December 31st.
So lets rewind to the first day of 2016, my New Year's resolution was to become a better person. What I mean by that is to look past the obvious flaws in others and find the good within, and to look at all the positives instead of focusing on the negatives in every situation. I believe I succeeded with my resolution, I can now say that I am far more happy with life. I am able to pick out all the positives in almost every situation. I gained so many more friends from going out of my way to say "hello" to people around campus.
I learned so many valuable lessons during the last year, some within the first month of the year. For example my first Field Period was teaching business classes at my high school, this taught me that I will never ever become a teacher. It was good to push myself out of my comfort zone to test other career paths, but it definitely solidified the idea that I will make a great business women in the future.
Another valuable lesson I learned is to cut toxic people from my life. Everyone has toxic people in their lives, toxic people are individuals that hold you back and drag you down. In order for me to move on and succeed in life that meant saying goodbye and letting go of the toxic-ins. Along with being a better person I created the "three strike rule" meaning that everyone in my life gets three chances to show that they are worthy of being a part of my path. I believe that everyone should get more than one chance, because people make mistakes, but I also believe in limiting those chances as well. If you mess up three times, then I force myself to say goodbye because it is not fair for me to wait around for someone else to decide if I'm "good enough".
Lastly, I learned that you should never look for self happiness in someone else. Meaning you'll never truly be happy in life if you always rely on others for that sense of euphoria. In order to be completely satisfied in life you must love yourself from within. This year I found myself and what promotes my happiness, life has never been better.
So all in all 2016 was one of the best years of my life. I am continuing my resolutions on being a better person, staying happy with myself and removing the toxic-ins from my path, I challenge everyone to do the same. Lets start this new year with the best foot forward, good-bye 2016 & hello 2017.
