So what were my goals and intentions for 2025
- Set more time aside for self-care
Done
- Rest more and try to create a schedule for my day
Not quite always done
- Engage more in my faith - attend more Meetings for Worship and join in with groups run by Friends at the Meeting House
Sort of doing more now these past few months. I join in on zoom fortnightly.
- Spend less and use up what I have especially when it comes to craft and stationary supplies
Done
- Read up the books on my shelf and don’t buy new books unless they’re already part of a series I’m reading that’s on my shelf
Not quite done as I got my Kindle
- Continue with my 1SE project for 2025
Done
- Do my Jar Project with my best friend
Done
- Continue to spend less time on social media
Yep I’d say to that one
- Do random acts of kindness
I’d say yes to this too
In 2025 I managed to do:
Me and my best friend set out to declutter, save money and not buying craft things or pen pal supplies. We did this jointly to support each other with these goals throughout 2026.
- Decluttering most of my bungalow. I’ve donated a lot and thrown out a lot. It’s made me realise that I don’t need so much stuff. I listened to a book on how to declutter and simplify your life and from that I made a detailed floor map to break down really simply the areas that I needed to declutter. This helped with my ME and pacing the task too.
- I also reduced my craft supplies and donated wha I didn’t need or would use to the hospice for patients there to use in craft groups. I’ve bought very minimal craft supplies this year and I used up what I had; most of what I have bought was to help me use up what I have like aperture cards to use up my iris folding papers.
- I stuck to buying no pen pal supplies and again I’m using up what I have.
- I also tried to spend less this year and have as many ‘spend-free days’ as possible. When I had a ‘spend day’ I’d group together everything I needed to buy so as to have less ‘spend days’.
- Do some opportunities in my role as a Storyteller for the disability charity Scope. I also volunteer with Cards2Warriors and send mail out to people having a difficult time with their health.
- Continue another year with my blog. I’ve taken a back seat on social media with my disability accounts; I want my social media to be positive plus I was finding it exhausting making content.
A project I did this year with my best friend was something my old therapist suggested; it was a jar project where we write notes to each other and put them into the jar. We’ve exchanged the jars to open in the new year which can is often a difficult time so it gives us both something positive to do in the new year.
In 2026 I want to:
- Finish off my decluttering my bungalow and sending off my box to the charity shop so it’s not cluttering up my bedroom.
- Again, not buy any craft things and continue using up what I have.
- Carry on using up my pen pal supplies. - I eventually just want to have a stash of pretty note pads to write letters on and make my own envelopes.
- Try and spend even less and have more spend-free days.
- Continue my role as a Storyteller for Scope and hopefully there will be some opportunities for me with them next year.
- Continue brightening peoples day with mail through Cards2Warriors. I also hope to do some artwork and design some cards for The Chronic Warrior Collective which is a connected organisation to C2W.
- Carry on blogging for my 8th year with as many posts as I’m able to write. I aim to still do disability content and I want to write more about mental health but I also want to try and do more non-disability content as well.
- Read as many books as I can now I have my kindle!
- Do 1SE again.
- Sell or donate the clothes hanging on my wardrobe door.
- Get to a point where I’m happy and recovered from my anorexia or have learnt to control it rather than it controlling me.
- Go on as many Batec adventures as possible - I’d love to go to the woods and down the sea front.
