My Happiness Project: August

Dear You,

I can't believe a month has already gone by, I guess life tends to do that. I'm really excited to start month #2 of My Happiness Project and wanted to update you on what I'm doing!

For August I wanted to focus on Ambitions

While I have no aspirations towards basketball I still have huge dreams in the world of music and I want to actually pursue them because I know I find happiness in them. If I haven't said it a million times yet, I'm a songwriter and I genuinely hope to find a career in my passion. And if not in that, in other mediums of writing. Like this blog that I write everyday or the short stories I keep to myself on my laptop. 

Whatever I end up doing I want to push myself to try harder at them than I have been before. This is another one of those long term happiness things where it will probably suck doing it but the reward will be worth it a million times over. 

My specific resolutions for this month are 

Make a vision board

Make an adventure jar

These are one time goals rather than everyday things but I need to commit to actually making them, just for inspiration

1 line journal for Career

Rubin (author of Happiness Project) uses a journal where you write one line a day to keep track of the little moments. I want to keep one to remind myself of all the things I did that day to reach my ambitions

Talk about writing more

I've gotten used to being ashamed of my love for writing because of the general societal preconceived notion that things like writing are so unlikely that all writers who haven't already been successful should be looked down upon. 

I also decided to take a gap year between high school and college because songwriters don't typically go to college and while I think it'd be a great experience I decided to try life without it and I am constantly looked down upon for it. 

However this month I want to embrace my dreams and tell the world about them. 

I AM A WRITER AND I LOVE IT

Make more Youtube videos

I made a cover of Treacherous by Taylor Swift (here... ;) and while the views haven't been wildly successful I have to believe in myself and keep making them and practicing and hopefully someday people will start watching them :)

This one is unrelated to the theme of the month but...

Take Care of Self

I have always worked so hard to get a perfect body, extreme diets then pigging out because cake and ice cream are delicious but this month I want to actually take care of myself. Eat fruits and vegetables because they're good for me, not because of looks. I want to change my perspective and start making healthier choices in my food and life in general :)

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ALL THE SMILEY FACES

Anyways, those are my goals for the month, I'm hoping to stick to them, here's my resolution chart for August...

I added a bit about what made me happy today separate from the one line a day journal for career-stuff, it was inspired by Tyler Oakley and I'm excited to see what I write down by the end of the month :)

What are your goals for the month? Leave me a comment below!

Have an Amazing Day!

Mia B

Also, if you wanted to be the coolest person in the world, you could take a look at my new Youtube video :)