HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This is a way of me holding myself accountable, yet again! I have so much blogging intentions this year, and I didn’t know how to put it out there tangibly, but here I am– day 1 in the new year, posting my resolutions. This is an “Ins and Outs” list, aka: a tiktok trend that I’ve been loving lately!

I decided to write a list after seeing a couple of ins and outs, and I knew I wanted to get into the creative spirit with mine, so here’s a photo of the list I made in my sketchbook today, and I might give some extra explainers to some of my list items.

My moleskine sketchbook is the home of my resolutions and habit changes! I used Dover Little Activity Book realistic flower stickers, Le Pen flex calligraphy pens, Crystal Bic (sorry to the micron that wasn’t working well)!

Outs:

Phone time on socials for more than an hour a day

Starbucks
One annual haircut
Imposter syndrome
Driving (I want to do more public transit / walking / biking in my community)
Book snobbery
Rotting on the couch (procrastinating)

Ins:

Not Scrolling Socials until I’ve been awake 1 hour

Haircare & regular haircuts
Local coffee or homemade coffee
Daily Walks / stretch
Taking more photos of myself / my outfits / selfies
Reading daily! (even if it’s only 5-10 pages)
Making Mistakes / not being perfect
Writing through the writers block!!!!
Sketching / journaling / scrapbooking

I tried writing explanations, but this quickly became a 1000-word blog post, and it’s not supposed to be. I decided to delete it and call it a day. Here’s all the selfies I have taken since the new year has started, because I want to record my cute outfits and personal style more often from here on out, per my resolution.

Thanks again for reading my blog, and happy new year to you!

If you have any more “ins and outs” I would love to see them because my outs list was pretty weak. I’m an optimist (especially when it’s new years), so I rarely think of the negatives that correlate with my positives… therefore I had a shorter list of “outs” because idk, if its out, it’s simply not on my radar, tbh!

Mush love,
Cody of 2024