1. Follow your heart
In 2016, vow to follow your heart. Don’t be afraid of what people will say or how people will act. If you like that boy, go for it! If you want to wear a purple sparkly tutu, go for it! When you follow your heart and do more of what you want, you end up finding your true friends and becoming more of the person that you are supposed to be. Don’t be hesitant out of fear because you may be surprised at what happens when you follow your heart.
2. Be more adventurous
Go bungee jumping, or skydiving or whatever thrills you. Have you ever gone on a roller coaster? If not, do it! Adding adventure to your life can lead to crazy experiences and stories and some major adrenaline rushes. When thinking of adventure ask yourself, “What’s the worst that could happen?” Can you live with the answer? If so, go for it! Why not spice up 2016 with a crazy experience that you never thought you would do? Conquer the fear and go for it!
3. Put yourself first
2016 more than anything else should be the year of you. Put yourself first and don’t let anyone or anything take advantage of you. Once you start to realize your true self-worth and importance, you’ll realize that you are worth the world. Find the boy who will move mountains for you. Find the friends who will be there for you at 2:00 p.m. when you want to spontaneously get ice cream or at 3:00 a.m. when you are crying over your boy problems. Make yourself your top priority for the year and you will be amazed at the independence and feeling of amazingness that comes from this.
4. Experience passion
5. Be yourself
Live by the famous Gavin DeGraw song lyrics, “I don’t wanna be anything other than what I’ve been tryna be lately.”
Be yourself because chances are a lot of people think that the unique person that you are is pretty awesome! Even when you don’t feel like that sometimes, there is always someone out there who thinks you are the bee’s knees! Be you, do you and if anyone has a problem with it, you don’t need those who don’t build you up in your life.
6. Leave the past in the past
The year is 2016. Leave the drama in 2015. All the people who’ve wronged you, all the messes that you’ve been in, the bad grades you’ve gotten, the stresses, the bad relationships, all of it. Leave it in the past. It’s time to move on from all of that negativity and let 2016 be the year of good vibes. Don’t hang on to the stuff that kept you down last year.
Let it go (just like Elsa did in Frozen), make peace with it and show all the things that kept you down who's in charge.
7. Go on a vacation with your best friends or at least, go exploring.
Go out and explore the world, or at least, a new place. You would be surprised at the random cool little spots that you can find around your town. Gather up your girlies (or homies, if you’re a boy) and go adventuring. Plan a weekend beach trip. Rent a cabin for the weekend. Presence is always 100 percent better than presents (or clothes or shoes) so save up and plan a cool trip with friends. Not only will you enjoy it while you are there but it will give you a lifetime worth of memories and stories.
8. Be present...put down your phone!
We’ve all seen the tweet that says we like to be around people who make us forget to look at our phones so let's stop tweeting about it and become those people. In 20 years, we won't remember how many likes we got on our last Instagram photo but we will remember the moment that we took that photo with our friends.
When you are with the people who mean the most to you, put down the phone and be present. Enjoy the company of your friends or boyfriend/girlfriend or parents or siblings or even your grandparents. They won’t be around forever and you will be forever grateful for the time that you did get to spend with them.
