Resolutions – Lisa-heidi

06/24/202406/21/2024

Goals for the 2nd Half of 2024

　2024 started off by me coming back to Japan in February and taking some time off from University. However, I’m not taking this as a time for me to just rest and be lazy, but by doing a lot of things I have wanted to do. I am very fortunate that my parents are letting me be a student for this time, so I want to make the most out of it. So, I’m going to write about my goals for the latter half of 2024.

Study Wine

　I have always been interested in wine, so I’m going to take this time for me to study wine instead of what I need to at uni. I have been working at restaurants in hotels, so wine has always been very close to me. Also, my mom drinks a lot of New Zealand white wine. I also drink a decent amount of rosé and sparkling. I also started to go to wine school from May and now studying for a test in August.

Taken from Alexandrasaintmleux at Instagram

Losing Weight

　I have been saying that I want to lose weight for a long time, but this year is going to be the year that I go through with it. I have been eating quite some amount of chips after dinner, and because of that I have scaled my heaviest weight in my life. And that ended up with me not being able to wear most of my clothes beautifully. So that really told me that I need to lose weight. I know that I’m eating too much to the amount of activity I do daily. So I think that I can lose weight easily if I just eat less than I do right now. I don’t really like to workout that much, so I’m going to focus on how much and what I’m eating. But of course I will be moving my body as much as I can in the meantime.

Manage My SNS Properly

　I have also always been saying that I want to upload one blog every week and manage my Instagram and X, and I haven’t been able to every year. I’m going to make this year that I do it right for this as well. I’m going to aim for blogs once a week, Instagram once every 5 days and stories once a day, and once a day for X. I have goals which I would like to achieve via social media, so I would like to work towards that. I have so much free time this year, so there should be enough time for me to upload. Also if there is any request for this blog or any other social media, please feel free to send me a message.

Visit A Lot of Places

　As I’ve said this year I have the most free time ever in my life, so I would like to visit a lot of places. However, I don’t want to just go to a lot of places, I would like to visit somewhere that can increase my culture or level up my aesthetic sense. I have already visited a museum and went to a golf and rugby game. I would like to go see Kabuki, visit more art museums and exhibitions in the latter half. I think this is a good time for me to upgrade myself as a person, so I would like to actively upgrade myself by ways that are not able from working or studying.

　This is the end of my goals for the latter half of 2024. As I’ve wrote before it is very crucial for me to have goals, so I’ve wrote this post here. (It’s also for me to count myself accountable.) There have been too many times that I haven’t been able to fulfill my goals, so I am really going to work hard this time to end the year with me saying “I fulfilled all my dreams!”. Please let me know what your goals for the latter half of 2024 is in the comment. See you next week!

04/26/2023

2023 Resolutions

This blog is going to be about this year’s resolution even though it has been 4 months into 2023. I have written this for the past couple of years, but writing this here for me makes the percentage of me achieving the goals rise. (However, there are so many times that I couldn’t achieve it)

Learn Wine and French

These two things have been something that I have been wanting to learn for a very long time, so I want to finally start this year. Wine and French will definitely be something that will be beneficial for my dream career, so it is not going to be a waste of my time. I would like to start studying wine by using the textbooks for the Japan Sommelier Exam. Unfortunately, the university I’m currently attending does not offer a French class so I would just study on my own. I would start by studying on Duolingo and I would venture into textbooks and buy them if I feel like I need to.

Think about Where My Money is Going

I am still a university student, but I am planning to graduate somewhere next year, so I think that I need to start learning about money. I love reading so I want to start by reading books about money or investing. Also, I would like to know where my money is going, so I can know where I’m wasting it. Of course, I would still like to use my money on luxury items and trips, and food that I can only spend on being a university student. But, I would like to acquire the skills of choosing between the necessary and non-necessary items that I choose to put my money into. Also, 2024 will be a year that I have more opportunities to use money, like graduation trips and graduation presents, so I would like to save for it too.

Make Use of Social Media

Finally this year I would actually like to make use of my social media platforms. Even though I have said this, it has been 4 months since 2023 and I haven’t really uploaded on my Instagram and blog. However, I would like to change this from here on and upload it on a regular basis. I would also like to get one job or PR from one of my social media platforms by the end of 2023. I don’t know if this is something that is out of my dream or something that is actually achievable or something that is very easy. All in all, I would like to end 2023 by saying I worked hard on all of my social media platforms. Of course, I would like to regularize my uploads on my blog and Instagram, but also improve the quality of my blog posts, and make more effort on photographs.

Challenge on Everything

I want this year to be the year of challenging everything in every aspect. I don’t mean to challenge very big things all the time, but I would like to challenge new things and go out of my comfort zone. During the first four months, I have gone on my first trip alone and booked a horse-riding lesson. I might have started small, but I would like to generally challenge myself this year more. I would like to keep on going like this, and during this trip, I would like to understand myself and make my comfort zone bigger.

Become an Elegant and Classy Woman

I think over the last few years I have started to understand what kind of woman I want to become. Of course, it has slightly changed as the years go by, but I haven’t had a drastic change for years now. I have come to the conclusion that I want to become an “elegant and classy woman”. I am not going to change one thing to become that woman because I know that it is not achievable in that way, so I would just like to think in every situation what my ideal woman will do and choose. Then I think I can automatically become closer to my ideal woman. I would just like to become a better person even if it is just by a small amount. There is no point that I can say I made it for this last one, and there is an infinite number of things I need to do to make it to my ideal woman, which I know is not going to happen in my lifetime, so I just want to try my best at every opportunity I have.

So, this is the end of my 2023 resolutions. It is very important for me to make my resolutions, so even though a lot of time since the start of the year has passed, I am happy to finally share it with you. I am satisfied with my resolutions for this year, but did you make one yourself? Please share some if you have any. I hope that 2023 will be the best year for everyone. Also, I think we are going back to how it was fully this year, so I hope it is an enjoyable, safe, and peaceful year for me and everyone.

01/10/2022

Look-back of 2021 and My 2022 Resolutions

Happy New Year to everyone.

It is already 2022. How was everyone’s 2021? For me moving to Kyoto was a very big deal. I also started working part-time and when I look back, I realize there were a lot of events in 2021. Even though COVID-19 is still somewhat in full force and we have not been able to go traveling freely, for me 2021 was somewhat of a good and enjoyable year. To make my resolution for the new year, I start by looking back on the previous year. So this blog will be a look-back at 2021 and my 2022 resolutions.

Moving to Kyoto

As I wrote above, I cannot talk about 2021 without mentioning my move to Kyoto. After moving to Kyoto, I have been going to temples and shrines with my mom. I often use half a day to a day for one shrine or temple, which I can only do because I live in Kyoto. Especially during the fall season, I went to a lot of temples and shrines. I would love to visit more in the snow time and the cherry blossom seasons and have started planning for some of them.

Started Working Part-Time

What type of job I want to do is very clear, so I finally started working part-time in something close to that. I started looking for one right after moving to Kyoto and started working at the end of June. I have been gaining a lot of experience here so I would like to keep on working there.

Started Learning Japanese Tea Ceremony

I wanted to start something related to Japan, so I started learning Japanese tea ceremony. There were many things on my mind but “Sado (Japanese tea ceremony)” was chosen because my mom did it when she was young. The course I’m taking now is a 6month course for beginners, so it’s going to end in March of 2022, but it is perfect for me because I get to learn the basics.

From here I’m going to start writing about my goals for 2022. I always start setting goals for the new year from the start of December, however this year I couldn’t finish making all of my goals by the start of 2022. I have now finished making it after working on it during the new year’s holiday. This year’s big resolution is “To get to know Kyoto, have more connections, and to be an elegant and sophisticated woman”. I’m going to get a little bit more specific on each one.

Build a Network

The industry I want to work in has always been clear for me from I was little. Of course, there were times I wanted to become something else, but this type of job was always in my mind. Especially in the industry, I want to go into, connections between people is very important. I have not been able to network with anyone in that industry so this year I would like to make some. Also, I realized that I have very few friends due to COVID-19 and going to a university abroad. I would like to meet new people by going to new places and doing new things. (I hope I meet someone good as well…)

Be Well-Educated

This is a goal that I have had for a long time. My dad is always studying something and has a lot of knowledge from many genres and seeing this I always think that having a lot of knowledge is very important. Of course, being well-educated includes the knowledge that you need to have at that time but for me more of the knowledge that you have from any genre that you are interested in. In 2021, I couldn’t do both of them perfectly, so I would like to study harder this year. I would like to study French, world heritages, and wine or sake.

Be an Elegant Woman

This is also a resolution I have had for years. And something that I don’t think I would ever say that I have made it perfectly. However, every year I make the effort to become closer to it. If I elaborate on the type of elegant woman I want to be it would take me ages, so I would like to write it on a different post someday. This year I would like to focus on my figure and words. I would like to lose some weight until I can wear clothes beautifully, stay at that weight and exercise regularly. For words, I would like to be careful about my language and change my wordings according to TPO.

This is the end of my look back of 2021 and resolutions for 2022. This year, I want to make it the year that I regularly post on this blog as I say every year. Also, I hope that I get to travel abroad and go back to my university. I also hope that 2022 is a happy, peaceful, and healthy year for everyone. Please let me know your big events for 2021 and goals for 2022.

02/08/2021

2021 Resolutions

I’m sorry that I didn’t post for the longest time. How was everyone’s holidays and New Years? I was in Japan and I celebrated it with my parents while watching Arashi’s concert with sake. I have no idea when I will be allowed back in Australia, but I’m still studying my classes online while sometimes having somewhat of a fun time with my parents.

This time on the blog I’ll be writing my resolutions for 2021. 2020 wasn’t the year that everyone was hoping for and I changed my resolutions half way as a result. I think for this year, you don’t need to make a resolution if you don’t want to. I made it as the same as every year because it makes me feel motivated. It was very hard coming up with this year’s resolution compared to every year. However, I managed to make them and here they are. There is a big chance that these might get changed mid year as well.

Lose Weight

This doesn’t mean that I don’t like my body shape now but it does mean that I’m not satisfied with it. I would like to be more fit than I am and that is why I’m going to lose weight this year. It has been years since I have said I want to lose weight, but finally this year I’m actually going to take action. Because I don’t want to gain weight right away afterwards, I’m going to take it slow and lose weight with minimum stress. From this month I think I’m going to share the journey with you on my Twitter so please go follow me (@lisa_heidi9886). I don’t want to do any strict food restrictions, so I would just like to stop eating before I’m full and reduce the amount of snacks I’m taking in. Working out during lock down is very difficult, but I would like to train at least 4 days per week at home and go practice golf or go swimming sometimes. I would love to be confident in myself when I wear something that accentuates my body shape at the end of this year.

Learn a New Language

Next is another thing that I have been trying to do for years. So, this year I would like to be able to speak daily conversations in the language finally. I have been learning French and Chinese from last year, so I am going to continue learning them and take more time. For both of them, I don’t want to go any farther than self-learning at this point, so I would like to make use of apps and textbooks that I can use on my own. I would also like to be able to get some qualifications that would be useful in the future. Of course my study for university comes first, but I am going to study things beyond that as well. Because of COVID-19, I have been deeply feeling that I need to work hard in order to raise my market value, so that I don’t suffer during hard times like this one. I would like to make use of my university years, so that I have the chance of surviving and happily living my life for the rest of my years to come.

Become More Active

I am someone that is active from the first place, but I would like to be more active and go to new places this year. Because of this situation it was inevitable, but last year I didn’t get that much chance to meet new people. I am going to not rely on my friends but be the one initiating when to meet up and seek for new encounters by going to new places. I would also like to make some guy friends since I don’t have any in Japan because of my upbringing here. I am going to not just complain this year but move myself and try to make new personal connections. I don’t have any problems of being shy or making new friends, so I would love to make good use out of that.

Live Gracefully and Elegantly

This is a goal that I also put as my goal last year, but it has been something I will probably aim for for the rest of my life. It isn’t that I didn’t achieve it last year, but something that I would like to keep reminding myself continuously this year as well. I updated my ideal women figure this year, and I realized that this was at the base of everything. Same as last year, I don’t have anything that I am going to do specifically, but I would just like to have this mindset on my mind everyday.

This is the end of my first blog of 2021 and my 2021 resolutions. I also listed up what I want to buy, experience, and resolutions for 2021 as always. I have no idea how many I can tick off at the end of this year, but having resolutions for the year differs my satisfaction level. So I’m always satisfied every year by making this very long resolution list. For my blog I would definitely love to upload a new blog every week. I am going to make my best effort to write blogs that are useful to each and everyone of you. Have you set any resolutions for this year? If you did, please let me know in the comments.

07/12/2020

The Importance of Having a Dream or Goal

This week I am going to tell you the importance of having a dream or goal from my point of view. For this topic everyone has their opinion, since having goals for some people can be the motivation to work harder. So please read this as an individual’s opinion. If you have read my 2020 Resolution blog, you probably know that I love having goals and dreams. For me having a dream or resolution has a direct connection on how much I want to work for it. This blog is going to be a presentation presented by me about what is good to have a dream or goal.

Motivation

For me having a goal or dream is connected to how long I can keep my motivation. I know this depends on the individual, but for me I can keep going on if I have a set goal. For me goals don’t need to be a big thing, having one is more meaningful. Especially, I normally have a reward associated to the goal so it motivates me more to work harder. Working hard isn’t an easy thing to do and you will normally feel worn out from time to time, so it is different when you know until where you have to work hard.

Excitement

Please take a moment and imagine yourself when you have achieved you resolution or dream. Don’t you feel excited? I do so much. I fantasize sometimes being my ideal person who I dream of, living her lifestyle, and the compliments I get from people. Then I feel like I want to be her as fast as I can, which I can only achieve if I work harder. This cannot be done without a dream. If you don’t have a dream you are not going to be able to fantasize the time when it comes true. Excitement is something that is important for me in life so I try to get excited as much as I can. I feel like being excited has many benefits for you, since I feel like it can make you look younger and it can deepen your knowledge.

Leads to Confidence

I become confident of myself when I reach my dream or resolution. When it comes true it is a proof that you have worked hard and you have the will power to pull through. Don’t you feel more confident about yourself when you have achieved something? I do because of the reasons above. I think that people with confidence has so much benefit. For example, having good posture or being able to speak clearly to anyone. These things are some things that I feel like are quite important in life and things I would like to have. I do not want to be someone that has too much confidence in themselves, but I will like to have some confidence in myself as I’m living as myself for decades to come.

This week I talked to you about the importance of having a dream or resolution. How was it? I don’t think anyone has changed their mind, but I hope you understood there are people thinking this way. What are some of your dreams? My dream for now is to graduate university with good grades, and to lose some weight. I have rewards for both of them that make me work harder so I would love to achieve them in the future.

01/16/2020

2020 Resolutions

Happy New Year!!

How was everyone’s holidays? I was at my home eating special Japanese New Year’s food, while watching TV. I wanted to publish this blog maybe until the 3rd but I kind of took some time off and enjoyed some time with my family. As I said in the last blog, I’m going to share with you my new year resolution. I love setting resolutions in general so I have a lot, but the four I will share with you today are my most big and general ones.

Live Gracefully and Elegantly

This is my biggest resolution of the year. I wrote out my ideal women figure and who I look up to as a woman this year and all of them had gracefulness and elegance as a foundation. There is not much I would like to do specifically but I would just like to have this mindset at all time. However, there are some things I would like to keep in mind specifically like keeping my room clean and putting everything back in their spot and have leisurely time. If there is a woman that ticks all of my ideal women type, I would like to always ask myself if that woman would do the exact thing I’m about to do.

Make More Friends

This year will be a challenging and a hard-working year for me because I’m transferring to a university in Australia from February. Going into a new university will mean that I’m going to meet a lot of new people, so I would like to make more friends. Even though I think I have a lot of friends as of now, I will like to make more friends from all over the world. My last university was very international but I made friends from Korea, Japan, and Bangladesh mostly so I would love to make friends from European countries as well. I don’t really get shy and I haven’t had any problems making friends so I will try to keep that up and challenge myself to be more outgoing.

Make Plans and Do It as Planned

I make plans when doing anything. For example, studying for exams, what I’m doing for that day, everyday chores, and literally everything I do from day to day. However, it is rare that I am able to finish it as I planned. So, I would like to make plans and finish them in time. Until now I planned way more than what I’m able to get done in the amount of time I allocate. So this year I am going to plan with more allowance in time and make less impossible plans. Also, I am going to make it my first priority to finish my plans everyday.

Live Healthily & Lose Weight

From February I’m going back to living on my own as a university student, so there is a high possibility of getting less sleep and not eating as much vegetables. So, I would like to pay attention to these details and live a healthy lifestyle. Also, this kind of lifestyle will help me to lose some weight and keep that weight. I would of course try to fit in a workout and get my calorie consumption higher. Then I can lose weight healthily and keep that good style easily. Of course as a university student, studying is what I need to prioritize, so I will be easy on myself before exams. But I would be basically strict on myself and say no excuses to myself and keep the healthy lifestyle for the whole year.

This is the end of my 2020 goals. As I have wrote above I have more goals small and big, and I also have a “100 Bucket List” which I set every year. For this blog, I would like to keep the goal of uploading every week. Also, I would like to advertise my blog to more people so that there are more people that know and read my blog. During this year, I would love to work with a company as well. Do you have any goals for this year? For me having goals or not changes my enrichment of the total year by a lot. So, I recommend everyone to have some kind of goal for every year.

09/30/2019

My Dreams

This week I will like to write about my dreams. I always have had many dreams since I was little. I used to learn swimming quite professionally so I hoped I can be an Olympic swimmer. Other than that, I wanted to be a cabin attendant, a dancer at Tokyo Disney Resort, or a singer. Since I was little I have always wanted to have a job that can bring joy, happiness or smiles to people directly. Also, I have loved performing in front of people so I kind of want to become famous at something. This blog is something I’m writing to look back on in the coming years, so please read it when you have spare time.

Blog

This might be something people are interested about. Some people might say, “What on earth is she saying with a blog with such low quantity and quality?” However this is what I want to achieve in the future and where I’m heading for. My very last goal is to get invitations from famous fashion brands to their fashion shows. This is not why I started blogging but it is one of my dreams. I feel like it is disappointing that not a lot of influencers from Japan are invited to these events where a lot of influencers from around the world are. Also, even if there are influencers from Japan, most of them are active only in English. I put out blogs in both English and Japanese and my instagram is the same too. I don’t want to change this in the future as well even when I grow. Also, when the time comes and I will start a youtube channel, I would probably speak in English but put the Japanese subtitles by myself. Of course, fashion shows are not the only thing I would like to achieve but also brand trips, receiving PR products or working with magazines would be wonderful. I would like to be a blog-based influencer that is active in Japan and the rest of the world as well. Victoria McGrath (@inthefrow) and Leonie Hanne (@leoniehanne) would be people I look up to and who I want to be like. Just by looking at these people, they have made their way up there because of their hard work. So, I will like to do the same.

Self-Improvement

I would just like to improve myself. Right now I don’t have the confidence to wear short pants or tight skirts. So I would like to begin a diet. My diet doesn’t have any aim weight because I put weight on how I look and my silhouette. Also, I would like to lose weight in a healthy way so it might take some time. Also, I would love to have more knowledge. I would like to start with having more knowledge about fashion. So, I would like to start with the history of the brands I love and the trends of each decade. In addition, I would like to know more about current affairs and have a very deep knowledge about one category I truly adore. Also, I would love to have an elegant, feminine, and put together lifestyle. I would like to have more spare time in my life, be thankful to everything, live each day happily, and cherish everyday. To accomplish that, I need to remember manner and appreciation at all times and live each day calmly.

Beauty

To anyone asking what the difference there is from self-improvement, it might not be different to you, but to me I categorize them differently. Self-improvement is more about who I want to be in the inside and beauty is more about the outside. My first dream is to step out of my comfort zone. That applies to makeup, fashion and everything else. I would love to change what I’m used to wearing and how I do my makeup. I am aiming for a person that doesn’t have their “usual self” at anytime, and their atmosphere differs each day but their core part doesn’t change. Also, I would like to keep my skin clean. Also, I would like to become someone that doesn’t think the effort to become beautiful is bothersome. I want to become someone that is always trying their best to become their best version of themselves at any given time.

This is the end of the descriptions of my dreams for now. I hope you kind of remember some of these things in your head and just think that this blog’s author wants to be this kind of person. I would also like to come back to this blog and read it again and again. Of course my dreams are bound to change as I get older and the environment around me changes but I hope you understand. I fully understand that I’m quite far from the women I want to be but I am sure that I can reach it someday and I’m ready to put the efforts in to it. I hope everyone keeps hustling for their dreams as well. And I hope so much that everyone of you reading this can achieve their dreams in their lifetime.

01/06/201901/16/2020

2019 Resolutions

Happy New Years!! How was your holidays? I was at my parent’s house in Japan, so enjoyed Tokyo while eating “osechi” (Japanese New Year’s traditional food) and watching TV for my New Year’s day.

My first post for the new year is going to be my 2019 resolution. Every year, I always start putting together my new year’s resolution for the next year from the previous December. So, I’m going to share with you today my 2019 resolutions.

Osechi

1.Live Healthy

This might seem like a very broad and big one but this is my biggest and most important. Before I started living on my own, my mother would make my meals, so I had a very nutritious meal three times a day. Also, I was waking up and sleeping at a decent time. I only was exercising when I was doing club activities back then so it is the same because I work right now. However, because now I’m living alone I’m not making food for myself because it is a hustle and have not been eating three times a day or a nutritious meal too. Also, my sleeping time has become so late that sometimes my lifestyle is completely turned upside down. Because I know that I’m a night-owl, I am first going to try to wake up at around 7-8AM. (I’m writing this at 11PM…) In addition, I have known for a long time that I’m lacking exercise so I would like to start doing easy trainings at home and gradually shift into going to the gym and training. My main goal is to live healthy and lose weight healthy and beautifully.

2. Try Hard for My Ideal Future Image

The latter part of last year was a time for me that I had no passion for anything. I went to school and listened to lectures but that was it. However, in that period I was deciding and worrying so hard about my future and what kind of person I want to be. I ended up having a blurry image of what my ideal future would be at the end. This might change but it is clearer than it used to be and I would like to do anything that I can do to become closer to it. Also, I want to worry more and have a clearer image of my future at the end of this year. I will not say here what that future image is right now but when I feel ready, I will open up to you guys so hold on tight!! I know that I can hustle to do anything that I like and am passionate about so that’s what I want to do this year.

3. Gain More Knowledge

This might seem natural for someone that is an university student but I would like to gain more knowledge from somewhere that is not in my course content. For example, I would love to gain more English vocabularies. This will come in handy when I’m writing my essays for my courses but this is something that I want to have for my future, even if my future job doesn’t use English. Another example is learning Korean. Right now, I can only speak English and Japanese, and I would like to be able to speak one or two more languages before graduating university. I was debating for a long time of what language to do for my third language but I chose Korean over the last few days so I’m going to stick with it. In the future I would love to be able to speak 10 languages or more. I have more areas that I would love to gain knowledge in but I would keep it here for now. If anyone is interested leave me a comment here or DM me on instagram.

These are my 2019 resolutions. I also have a 2019 bucket list and small things I would love to accomplish in 2019. For my blog, I would love to post every Sunday or Monday. I hope you will stick around for 2019 since no one knows what we have in store for this year. Also, I finally started posting on instagram so please go have a look. (@lisa__heidi) What are your goals for 2019?