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Plans for 2024.

Luna

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!! 
  • in reply to Desmond79

    This has been something that I take much more seriously since Covid, as we watch our world slowly disintegrate - being more awake to the truth of so many things than my extended family in my native Republic of Ireland, it has been difficult to witness from the U.K. what has been happening to my homeland and it has also been my Catholic faith that has sustained me through this difficult time for our country and our world

  • in reply to Glitch

    All great and positive things. Hope everyone achieves their goals for 2024. Glitch you need to either get a job in vehicle restoration or work for yourself restoring them. People could bring their projects to you and then you can do what you enjoy and get paid for it.

    best of luck everyone 

  • I'm hoping to pass my driving test next year. I have a love of cars, specifically classic cars and I bought myself a gorgeous Ford Escort XR3i convertible which I've done up and really want to drive on the road rather than on private land. So fingers crossed this happens.

    I would also like to get a job next year. I don't know how likely this is but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this will by some miracle happen.

    Good luck to everyone here on your goals and wishes for next year. I'll keep my fingers crossed for all of you.

  • I would like to hope that I can help my little boy to be able to manage his anxiety’s better and that he feels more comfortable. Secondly I would at some point like for me to follow that with myself, try and get a balance between masking and unmasking really. 

  • 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. 

  • Become wary of possible end times.

    Probably visit more places, while I still have the opportunity.

  • in reply to Autistic Not Alien

    That does sound tough for you, kids to look after and work to cope with. I think though, doing a video on how you're feeling and what you're going through is a good idea. It will mean you're able to vent and it will be good for others who are in a similar situation as yours. I've been writing a book to hopefully offer some support to others struggling.

  • in reply to Luna

    Thank you very much, Lu. I might do a video about the grief! The channel is a great outlet, and I hyperfocus for hours, but I also have a full-time job and my kids to support!

  • in reply to Autistic Not Alien

    I hope things will get easier for you Neil and you'll start to feel happier. The diagnosis, before and after, can be a wild ride and it's a mix of all kinds of emotions. I hope the rest of the journey will be kinder to you! 

    I'll check out your channel as well.

  • Next year, I'd like to keep creating content for my autism YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AutisticNotAlien

    It would be great to have about 30 videos, I think. The problem is, they take me so long to edit! Other than that, next year I really want to get a grip of my post-diagnosis grief. I've been really suffering lately, and people are starting to notice. I just want to be happy.