Plans for 2024.

Do you have anything planned for the 2024??? If so, whether it's big or small, please feel free to share your plans here. It might inspire me to do something cool next year rather than just sit here in my anxieties.

My mind is usually racing with so much it's hard to sit down and plan certain things to do. I usually go with the flow, let my mind just take me to A-B, and take the rough with the smooth as it happens. One thing I definitely intend to do is get back to my volunteering, hopefully mid January if possible, but only time will tell if that's actually going to happen. I don't want to let this opportunity escape me so I need to be strong, if possible.
As for the rest of the year I really don't know what I'm going to be doing. Normally I enter the new year thinking oh god here we go again but this time I'm hoping I'll start the new year with a more positive mindset - positive thinking leads to good things, I'm told, so here's hoping this will be the case for me.
Another thing I wouldn't mind improving next year is my anxiety as it will normally be affecting me on a daily basis and that's unpleasant at the best of times. A little less anxiety would be nice...
But that's a tall order, so I won't get my hopes up. I want to try some new meditation, though I'm doing this before the new year. 
First, I need to try and get through Xmas. Tomorrow I've got all the immediate and extended family coming over, yikes it's going to be a long couple of days. Uncle Gene will get drunk as usual, my little cousins will be running around crazily - and loudly! - and the music will be louder than normal.
*sobs*
My parents are so good though, they tell people to be mindful of my autism and not to trigger me which I appreciate on so many levels but most people don't really listen.
Roll on the new year please....
Whoops, oh dear that turned in to another ramble. Sorry!! 
Parents
  • I'm hoping to do a lot of growing in 2024. Its been a tough year and full of very big self realisations and reflections, I'm hoping I can build on these and really get stuck into my own personal development. 

    I should also start mental health peer support volunteering this year, after doing a lot of training the past few months. I'm really excited by this, if not anxious but it's another thing outside my comfort zone! Hoping if I get enough experience I can mvoe into this sort of work as a job.

    I'm hoping I can make some new friends this year. Put myself out there more and be more vulnerable and honest with people. Be more authentic and sincere. Re connect with old friends hopefully and see some family more often. 

    I also have a mammoth reading list I've compiled to try get through, though I think I'll need more than a year to get through it all!

    I always find new years difficult. Trying to jsut see it as another day, and a continuation of what's already happening. 

  • Ooo best of luck with all your goals for next year... I hope you'll find success with each and every one of them! Slight smileSnowman2️ 

    What sort of volunteering are you hoping to do? 

    Whatever you decide on I hope your enjoy it. Blush

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  • Thank you very much!

    Im volunteering as a fundraising volunteer at a cooperative that is focused on circular economy and community sustainability practices. I'm also volunteering as a mental health peer support volunteer to meet people experiencing poor mental health and support them in their recovery journey! I'm very excited.

    I hope you achieve your own goals for the year and know that there's a community for you hear to listen when needed!