goals – 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.

01/16/2020

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.