January 2021 Monthly Recap

It’s the end of January 2021 already!

I can’t believe we are already 31 days into 2021. 2021 is definitely flying by already.

My goal this year is to do a recap at the end of every month. As the months go on, I can’t wait to see what they will include and I can’t wait to be able to go back and read them!

HIGHLISTS

Family

The highlight of this month was getting to bring in the new year with my family. We were able to spend Christmas and New Year’s together and had tons of fun, complete with lots of late night talks and lots of game nights.

LIFE

I started my second semester of Bible College.

Bible College has been a huge learning and growing experience for me and I know it’s just the beginning. God is just so good! Second semester has been going really well and I can’t to see all the things I will learn this semester.

WATCHLIST

I finished watching season 3 of Cobra Kai.

I usually don’t like to binge watch a show. I like to take my time and enjoy it, especially if I know I will have to wait a long time for the next season. But with this show, I wanted to watch it with my sister and talk about it together as we watched it. So I did. I binged watched it and let me tell you, it was so good! I hate that I have to wait a while for season 4 but I am definitely glad I started watching this show.

BUSINESS

I gained 3 Instagram followers.

I gained 3 followers, from 73 to 76 followers. Welcome new followers!

This may not seem like a huge deal to some people, but I was definitely happy about this! And I really want to show the small moments and accomplishments that not everyone shares or ones that many skip over. These moments are important too, never forget that.

Income

I am in the beginning stages of blogging and being on Instagram, so no I haven’t made any money from either of these two platforms. But I will. I have no doubt about that. But there are beginning stages and this is all a journey. Let’s enjoy the journey, every part of it.

CHALLENGES & LOWS

Time management

Time management has not been my strong suit lately. With me now having a new work and class schedule, it has been super hard to figure out what my schedule will look like, especially since my work schedule is never exactly the same. But I am still trying and striving to create some routines that will help better manage my time.

Adulting

This goes along with time management. Adulting can be really hard sometimes. With so many important things needing to be done, it’s hard to know which to do first. The list of to dos is never ending. Growing up I was so excited to be an adult. Being an adult has its perks. But it also has some hard parts to it as well. I’m reminding myself to not rush through life but to enjoy every season I find myself in, including the hard seasons. A lot easier said than done.

Hard Days

While this month has been great overall, there have been times where all I wanted to do was curl up into a ball and cry. Living on my own in my own place for the first time has had a lot of learning curves. I’m striving to take every hit as a lesson instead of letting it bury me. Again, way easier said than done but definitely possible!

THINGS I’VE LEARNED

I learned that I have a ton of negative thoughts towards myself.

I told myself I was going to start thinking positively about myself in this new year. But I didn’t realize how many negative thoughts I would have to fight against, or even how easily I let them in and how easily I believed them. No wonder my mental health is where it is. I didn’t care for it. I let it get destroyed. I didn’t fight back. Now that I know this, I know where to begin.

New habits don’t just magically appear just because a new year started.

A new day and a new year doesn’t equal a completely new person. If I want to see change in my life, I have to work for it. That work may be hard, but I can’t skip that part of the process. To get from A to Z, I have to go through the rest of the alphabet first.

I learned what a polyglot was and that there are traveling polyglots.

I had never heard of this before. I knew that there were people who spoke many languages, but I didn’t know they had a name all their own. Not only that, but there are traveling polyglots! I think that’s absolutely amazing and incredible. Maybe one day this is something I can do too. 😉

PROGRESS

I’ve started to forgive a lot of the hurt I have been carrying around.

I really wanted to try to not make decisions in my life based on my past angers and hurts. It’s way, way easier said than done. But if I am conscious of it, I have to take way more time to think about something so I can see it in a different light, and not let the past darken my future. I’ve never done this before, so I am very proud of this step.

There you have it

Honestly, doing this recap ended up being way more fun and longer than I had expected it to me. I can’t wait to make my next one!

How was your January 2021?

What are you looking forward to in February?