As the new year quickly approaches, it's the time of year when we start to reflect on all of the things that have happened this year and what we want to improve for the next year. I'm someone who doesn't really make "resolutions" because we all know how those go.

I do create goals for the new year, though, on things that I really want to accomplish, and this year, I only have one.

My main goal for 2018 is to find myself.

Yes, I said it, 2018 is all about me, and more specifically, working on myself to become to best person that I can possibly be, inside and out.

We all have things that we struggle with, some that we share with the world, and some that we only share with ourselves. It's not about what you struggle with, it's how you attack that struggle and turn it into something positive that matters.

For me, that struggle has been with finding my happiness, in many forms. Finding my happiness within my career, finding my happiness within my personal lifestyle and finding my happiness with just being ME.

I used to be a performer, loving to do all the things that involved performing, and over the past three years, I have yet to do anything related to that.

I went from graduating college, where I was performing, traveling, writing and doing all these fun and exciting things to working a dead end "9-5" just because I have to adult.

Adulting is a challenge in itself, but we don't have to let it beat us down. I'm learning that the world is wide open with an endless amount of opportunities for us.

We just have to take that chance and go for it, and I want to take more chances.

2018 is going to be a year of change and development, I can feel it. I am throwing a bucket of positivity into the air, and I am going to take 2018 by the horns and I am going to have a clearer mind, a better focus and it's going to be all about finding ME!

No matter where you are in life, just remember that you are not alone. We are all struggling with something, and it's important to just figure out where you are and what you want, and once you take those steps, the rest will fall into place.

Take this new year as a chance to find yourself and find out who you are and who you want to be. 2018 is all about you, remember that.

"The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals" - Unknown.

Happy New Year!