A New Year of Opportunity

Today is a new day

A new year

And with it follows hope, excitement, new experiences, new lessons.

I got a lot of plans for 2023 and I’m certain the year will be great.

This will be the year where I take my dreams to the next level, and put in the work towards them, but it will also be a year where I keep practising the things I learned from last year.

The year of 2022.

This year I will always remember as the year of change.

I changed so much that at times I look into the mirror, and I wonder of the old me is still in there.

I started out 2022 doing the same I had done for years.

I spend almost 99% of my time in my chair, online.

Working on my videos, playing online games.

This had a bigger effect on my health and my well being that I realised.

So, to no surprise I found myself in March hardly being able to walk because of my feet swelling.

I didn’t have any routine.

I slept when I wanted, and mostly I would sleep most of the day and be awake until early morning.

I ate what I wanted when I remembered to eat, and this made me gain a lot of weight, so much so that I often had muscle pains, and felt out of breath.

I was lucky to do 500 steps in a day. The steps required to walk from room to room at home.

I was happy in my chair, until I noticed my feet swelling.

I suddenly felt scared.

Scared that I would one day wake up with something more serious.

So, I knew I had to change.

And not just one thing but everything.

I had to change my routine, my bad habits, my entire lifestyle.

I had absolutely no idea how to do this.

I hardly knew anything about what was considered healthy. I never cared about it.

So, I started doing some reading, and I started out small.

I made myself a schedule in excel. Something that could help me track my sleep pattern.

I started doing some small workouts, and I still remember how exhausted I felt even just 5 minutes into the workout video I was watching.

I went grocery shopping one day and I was shocked that just going to the shop that’s 5 minutes away from my house, I had to take 3 breaks to sit down, catch my breath and try to endure the pain in my swollen ankles

Every month I implemented small changes.

Changes that was healthier, and I felt the difference quick.

I woke up more energized in the morning, having had 8 hours of sleep, I started craving veggies and fruit instead of unhealthy snacks, I was now able to do 5000 steps, and one day I pushed it to 10000 steps, and soon I noticed I could run and bend down, without any pain or having to catch my breath.

I felt more alive, more confident, and happier than I had been in years.

From going to being a hermit, and only spending time alone, at the end of the year I had developed friendships with people from the town I live in, and together we experienced so many new things.

I felt more inspired, and I wrote more posts on my blog.

I practised balance more then anything in 2022.

How to balance my health, and what I need to do in a day, to practise mental health, and selfcare when I feel overwhelmed, so I wouldn’t end up stagnating or burning out to quick.

I learned to say no, say no to things I wanted to do but I didn’t have the energy for.

Something that I had never been able to do before.

This helped my stay balanced.

So, I quick continue to focus on my health and my wellbeing as a priority.

By changing the smaller things, and take one small step at a time, I realised at the end of the year of how much I had changed.

I was suddenly braver and did things I had never been able to do before.

Talk to strangers in the phone, go the gym for the first time and so much more.

I felt different but still the same, I felt stronger, happier than I had felt in years.

So, the year of 2022 was a year of change.

And these changes are something I am going to continue to practise in 2023.

To focus on my health and get down to my normal weight again.

To keep eating healthy and get my 8 hours of sleep at night, so I wake up early morning well rested.

To keep socialising outside of the computer, so I continue to experience new things, and just get out there in the real world outside my 4 walls in my room.

What I want for 2023.

In 2022 I focussed on my wellbeing, and my health.

In 2023 I still want to focus on that, but also building my brand.

It’s the year to learn how to be productive.

To put major focus on my new you tube channel I’m launching soon.

To put more focus into my website and this blog.

Its time to really follow my dreams.

Its time to learn new things and get better at what I can do.

Its going to be a year of potential and following through on my dreams.

A year where I put everything, I’ve learned in 2022 to practise.

I have a lot of dreams. I have a lot of things I want to try and experience, and the time of stagnation is over.

Its time for action.

And I will spend every month writing about this.

What I learn both the good and the bad.

My goals for 2023 is this

• Get to my normal weight again
• Meet new people and maintain and grow the friendships I have developed.
• Launch my new you tube channel
• Focus more on streaming on a regular basis.
• Learn new things, one of them photography.
• Grow the MissFaylyn Brand
• Continuing to stay balanced, Healthwise, and practise mental health – selfcare on a daily basis.

I have for a long time wanted to take this step, but I was still filled with a lot of fear.

Fear of the unknown and fear of failing.

But I realised something.

The things I do is what makes me happy, and for this reason only I need to keep going.

Even if it is at times scary, it also something that fills me with great joy.

So, the time to stop thinking and just doing is upon me.

To do what makes me smile.

What will 2023 bring you?

And what did you learn in 2022?

Feel free to comment down below.

I hope it will be the greatest year for you.

MissFaylyn Out… ❤