1. Self Love
In 2016 We've seen too many people claim to be in love without even loving themselves. In order to decimate all of the negativity in our lives we need to transform our attitudes about ourselves. Glo-up Spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally. Self-Love is not just loving ya physical form.
We transform spiritually when we're able to find peace. This may mean to stop acting petty and forgive your friend for stealing your crayon in the first grade or to stop overwhelming yourself with activities you know youll never find time for.
Mentally glowing means changing your attitude. When we're able to look at life with a half-empty perception, it may get easier for us because it could always be worse.
It's loving your emotions and embracing them when the times needed and to express them. We repress emotions too often thinking it's cool but really we're training ourselves to be numb. The reason we live is because we feel. Being numb is like being a zombie. Avoid that.
2. Incorporating more vegetables
Hear Me out, I love a good piece of chicken. But have you ever considered the impact of a single piece of chicken? First we coop them up in repulsive living conditions, then give them hormones so they grow faster than their organs can accommodate to and after, manufacture them using fossil fuels as well as pile up their excretions to move to bodies of water/land. The amount of carbon emitted by factory farms is atrocious but imagine if we just ate more vegetables? We could decrease all of our carbon footprints for the new year resulting in helping the world and inevitably your body inevitably. Avoiding additional hormones and economically protesting the meat industry sounds pretty nice to me.
3. Trying something new
I'm tired of hearing that dreams are just dreams. I've never been a person to settle and neither should you. Publish that poetry book with your thoughts on racism and haiku's on Kim Kardashian's butt. Drop that mixtape with music discussing why candy corn tastes disgusting. So what if you're 170 pounds?! Apply for that modelling job! Take up photography and post it everywhere. You wanna be a professional Kung fu fighter? Do it. 2017 is what you make it so I want you to be brave and make this year a world of opportunities.
4. Educate
A lot of 2016 has been filled with ignorance and acknowledging it. We also have to remember in order to make change we have to be willing to point out ignorance and make suggestions on how to change it, not just scold. See a child can be yelled at for what it did but just yelling and not explaining doesn't do much. Be open to people and their opinions but have a willingness to educate others and yaself.
5. Appreciate More
We are constantly scrolling through Instagram hoping one day to be just like the Instagram models. We want the nice haircut, the cute thigh-highs, the nice mansion house near the crystal blue water on an island, the fancy schmancy food we can't even pronounce but we gotta start to appreciate ourselves more. It shouldn't take Thanksgiving to realize our values.
Evaluate the people/your environment/your activities in your life and if they're beneficial for you.
Look at your surroundings and thank the universe to be alive cuz some people didn't get that privilege this year. Thank the universe for your house, your phone and your friends and family that have been there with you since the beginning. It's worth it. You're allowed to pat yourself on the back about your accomplishments as well. You've achieved more than you think. When you got up this morning, that was something to pat ya self on the back about. When you did your homework the other night, you deserved to hug yoself for that. Appreciate every aspect of this life for this year and the year coming because you can only build from here.
