My 2024 New Years Resolutions

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Hey guys! It is that time of year again where I post my 2024 New Years Resolutions on my OG content creating platform and this year, I am SO EXCITED to announce that I will be having a podcast episode version of this post! I finally feel confident enough to do an episode on it & I cannot be more excited. Down below, I'll insert the podcast episode link that y'all can listen to. 

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My 2024 New Years Resolutions

#1: Continue to Grow My Navigating Corpus Christi Brand & Vision

So, for those who don't know, I run my own online community called Navigating Corpus Christi and I started this back in January following a New Years Resolution I had last year of building a positive online community and y'all, this has been the most life changing thing I have ever done. It has led me to dream come true opportunities & I have found my content creating niche which is building a positive community for women & making sure they have that community in their day to day lives because I know how hard it is for adults to make new friends due to everyone's busy lives.

This community has not only impacted others' lives but my own as well. I look forward to spending time with my girls almost every weekend & it is just so incredibly rewarding. I know 2024 is going to be amazing for this community as 2023 was. 

#2: Plan More AMAZING Community Events-Quality over Quantity!

Within that online community I have built within the past year that I have just mentioned, I hold community events for these women to get together through various activities & continue building those friendships & create new positive memories together. 

The thing with me is when I get excited & passionate about something, I consume every hour of my day into it and as much as I was incredibly blessed for all of the opportunities 2023 brought for me in building these community events, I can admit I was saying yes to literally everything & I was starting to get burned out so in 2024, I do still want to host those community events but QUALITY OVER QUANTITY BABY! I want to focus on creating a few AMAZING events other than just filling a gap in a schedule & overbooking myself on top of the other stuff I have going on.

#3: If it's Scary, Risky, Growing, & On Your Heart... DO IT!

This has been in my New Years Resolutions since 2022 and now it has become my ultimate motto for starting off a new year. This motto has led me to some of the most life changing things for me in a positive way of course so this resolution is not going anywhere. Going into a new year with this mindset will change your life, thank me later. 

#4: Get a BRAND-NEW LAPTOP & Get Necessary Content Creating Things to Step Up My Game

This exact laptop I am typing on right now is turning 5 years old this year & in the past 5 years, what I want in a laptop has changed. I originally got this laptop so I could focus on fashion blogging & online courses I was taking at the time but now when I get on my laptop, I manage my online community, make graphics, & manage my content creating tasks. I also need to step up my game on my content creating supplies aka get one of those content creating lights & just literally anything else I need to be successful as a content creator.

#5: Get Guests Back on the Podcast

Whenever I first started this podcast, I would have guests on & just talk about pop culture things but as my podcast evolves & changes, I got this anxiety with having that conversation with people about wanting to be a guest on here & that needs to change. I want to have all types of guests on from pop culture obsessed people like me to even just expanding into these local empowering people I have met within the past year through NCC. 

If you would like to be a guest, just DM me and get me out of my comfort zone to start recording with people again. I just get so comfortable in my podcasting schedule that mixing a guest in would throw off the entire schedule & that's why I've been putting it off but not this year guys, I will be speaking through this phone (I swear I will get a microphone this year) with someone!!!

#6: Eating Healthier & Getting Back into a More Consistent Workout Routine

Guys. I need to get back into shape. I was very depressed at the beginning of this year to the point where I had an identity crisis. This identity crisis was worse than during the pandemic & that led me to being lazier & just creating poor eating habits & I use to be such a gym rat & I want to look as fit as J-Lo whenever I'm her age so yeah, I need to get my lazy butt off of the couch & get back into working out & eating healthier again.

I know it is so typical to have something like this in my resolutions, but I just have gotten so lazy lately & I need to snap out of it. 

#7: Expand My Wardrobe & Try New Trends

I can't believe I use to run a whole 24/7 fashion blog & have this as one of my resolutions, but I recently had a wakeup call. I think this has been ever since 2020 or whenever I got out of working at a boutique in 2019 where I use to be DRESSED UP 24/7 but I just adopted this super casual but still trendy style. I was at an influencer night event at one of my favorite local places the other day and oh my god, keep in mind I had just gotten out of work, but I felt SO UNDERDRESSED. 

Whenever I started actively attending shows, I was underdressed for one show & I decided, never again will I show up to a show underdressed & I need to get into that mindset when hosting events & attending influencer events (which it is still crazy for me that I get invited to go to stuff like that, it is such a dream come true). I mean I still have a trendy style, but I need to get back into that dressier side of myself again that I had back whenever I worked at a boutique but of course make it current styles & not 2017/2018 styles. 

#8: Taking Time to Reach Out to Friends (New & Old) & Create New Special Memories with Them

This is always good to put on my resolutions & I definitely think within founding NCC, I have adopted this habit, but I want to continue adopting this habit so that is why I'm including it on here. I think the biggest goal for me as far as this resolution goes is that yes, I do create that community & encourage it through these events I host which those girls get to know each other through events & hang out outside of the events & this upcoming year, I want to focus on creating those little girls' night outs with the girls I have created friendships with. 

That is why I want to hold less events/meet ups & focus more of my energy of maintaining & building my current friendships new & old! 

#9: To Be Featured in The Bend Magazine

The Bend Magazine is a local lifestyle magazine in my city & they highlight different creators & their stories & next year; I want to try to get an article in here about building a positive community & creating valuable women friendships through a variety of activities. I have seen so many fun articles come out of this magazine & it would be so fun to have an article in here. 

They also host the Locals' List & last year during the early voting process, my podcast & NCC were in the first round, but I was still getting started with breaking out into this local content creating world, so I didn't make it far, but I want to try to get at least to the final rounds this year. 

#10: Continue to Embrace My Inner Confidence & Self-Worth

This is another one that I think is super valuable on everyone's resolutions. I have been through things in the past year where I've had to realize myself worth & say to myself, "Yes, I am THAT GIRL!" or "Snap out of it & do what has been on your mind!" Life is too short to wonder, "what if" & I literally use to be the QUEEN of What Ifs, especially in my early 20s & when I realized I couldn't live like that anymore, my life changed for the better. This will overall build your confidence for the better as well!

#11: Go to New Places I've Never Been to Before

This will definitely happen this year as I will be flying to LA & having my first LA trip in July which I am SO EXCITED FOR! I do some in state traveling for shows but this year when my schedule allows it of course, I want to discover new places, see artists I've never seen before, go to new venues, & even travel to places I've been dreaming of traveling to like I'm doing with LA (yes, because of a concert HAHA)!

#12: Continue to THRIVE in My Career!!!

This year when I talk about my career and my hobbies, I am proud of what I do & I don't think I have ever felt that way before ever. There have been eras of my life especially in my early 20s that I literally HATED saying where I worked at & with the current career I have; I LOVE saying what I do for work (I only don't on here to create that divide between my content creating & career). I want to continue to thrive in my career!