{"id":413,"date":"2019-02-04T21:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2019-06-21T21:50:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:50:56","slug":"thirty-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/04\/thirty-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/23Y5fL2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/7890\/40015959953_a8268d51aa_c.jpg?resize=800%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"32 years old\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center>The beginning of the year always brings with it a new energy and time to reflect and realign my goals &#8211; and it always coincides with my birthday &#8211; well sort off.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, my main focus was my business. Learning how to be a good boss, managing my business finances and balancing client care with the needs of my business. While all of these things are still important to me now, I want to use 2019 to focus on self care.<\/p>\n<p>This, perhaps, may sound selfish and counter intuitive to good business practice, yet I have always been of the belief, that by caring for yourself, you are also caring for others.\u00a0 So what will self care look like for me in 2019?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Decluttering &#8211; Anyone who saw my post in 2017 on how I decluttered my closet will know that I am a huge advocate for Minimalism. This year, my focus will be on decluttering other environments. Some of the things I want to declutter significantly are:<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nMy Office:\u00a0<\/strong>After running my business for a year I feel a lot clearer about what I want to do with the space in my office and I feel more comfortable about throwing out some resources that a year ago I wouldn&#8217;t have dared to.<strong>My Schedule: <\/strong>In order to have more time to grow my business I will need to take some time off work from client care so that I can start building other aspects of the business. I have lots of ideas, that, to be properly executed need time and research.<strong>My Makeup and Bath Products:<\/strong>\u00a0I use these every single day and they are part of my daily routine. I would like to feel more polished at work, but I am unhappy with my current selection of beauty products. I&#8217;m hoping to do some research and build a collection of make up and beauty products that I truly love and will use on a daily basis.<\/li>\n<li>Setting Clear Goals &#8211; Like most girls, many of my past New Year&#8217;s Resolutions have been to &#8220;Lose Weight&#8221;. While I am not skinny I am generally in a healthy weight range. Having a fitness goal has eluded me mainly because I&#8217;m not really sure what a fitness goal is or how to set one. This year my fitness goal is to start pole again and be able to do an &#8220;Inverted V&#8221; straight from the ground. It looks like this:<center><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1050\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_a_9YnXq0zw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-AU&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center>As well as setting clear fitness goals, I want to be setting clearer financial goals as well. Some of the things I am doing for this are:- Reviewing my regular business and personal expenses ensuring that they are the right choices for me.<br \/>\n&#8211; Reviewing my financial products; e.g. savings accounts, credit cards, insurances<br \/>\n&#8211; Setting up clear savings targets for what I am saving for<\/li>\n<li>Becoming more mindful<br \/>\nFor me this means:<strong><br \/>\nEating Slower and with fewer distractions<\/strong> &#8211; It&#8217;s so hard to eat without doing something else! My goal this year is to eat my meals without looking at my phone and to chew my food slower.<br \/>\n<strong>Practising gratitude &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0I find myself constantly comparing my life to others especially on social media, I know I have a beautiful life, even though it is not always photographable.<strong>Purchasing mindfully &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217;ve gotten rid of so much junk this year already and to be honest it has been really difficult to find environmentally friendly ways to get rid of the things I don&#8217;t need anymore that I am making sure that when I do purchase something I really, really, really want it.<\/li>\n<li>Not worrying about being perfect<br \/>\nWhile decluttering at my parents house last month, I found a whole bunch of artwork that Jess and I had intended to send to &#8220;Saturday Disney&#8221; when we were kids. We never sent it, always striving to make it perfect, but perfect never came. I&#8217;m going to be braver about sharing my progress when trying new things, instead of waiting until things are perfect before sharing \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The beginning of the year always brings with it a new energy and time to reflect and realign my goals &#8211; and it always coincides with my birthday &#8211; well sort off. In 2018, my main focus was my business. Learning how to be a good boss, managing<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/04\/thirty-two\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,30,32,12,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8VEuT-6F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celinelowe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}