Day #1 - The Goals, The Start of My Journey

Day #1 - My Goals

I've been battling my mental health a lot these past few weeks, there have been so many times when I've wanted to just give it all up, when I've not seen how I'm going to get through the next hour, let alone the next few hours or days. 

Today it hit me, I can either give up, and not know what the future might hold, let my mental health and circumstances get the better of me, or, even though right now I have absolutely no idea where I'm heading with my life, or what to do next now that I've finished college, I could embark on this journey and work towards my bigger goals and towards the future that I envisage having. 

I can work towards the accomplishments I want to achieve; my charity, my own business, making a noticeable difference to people's lives, inspiring them, making my family and friends proud, making myself proud. 

Just because the days are dark right now, it doesn't mean that I can't start to reach for the blinds and gradually begin to let the light in. I don't have to sit in the darkness searching for batteries for the torch, looking for a fire starter, because I've already got them, I am the battery, I am that ignitor. 

I have a big tattoo on my thigh which has two quotes in it, that two incredible, inspirational men and good friends of mine said to me 'You're one of the lights the world needs.' and 'You are your reason.' and although they are quotes that speak mountains to me, today, they have kick started me on this journey and helped me to make my three goals for my thousand day journey. 

My main goals are as follows: 

- To become the person that I want to be and to become proud of the person that I am.

- To develop a clear direction and strategy as to what I want from life and how I aim to reach my goals such as setting up my charity and company. 

- To surround myself with my family and friends and make more time for the good people who make as much effort with me as I make with them instead of shutting myself away.

Within each of these big goals there will be many little goals and steps that I will take along the way, but here are my goals, and this is the start of my journey.

I want to learn, and grow, every single day of my life, I want to listen, to hear, to speak, I want to be open minded and accepting and learn about the world around me, but more than anything, I want to become a better person every day. 

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#TDT #ThousandDayTransformation

Introducing The Thousand Day Transformation

So today is the day that it all begins, the day that I make the choice to further my journey and not to throw in the towel, it's the day when I try to put all of the suicidal thoughts to the back of my mind and to enrol on a journey that could potentially be the start of the future that I desire. 

I was contacted by Hazel Scott on 13th August 2015 who explained The Thousand Day Transformation to me, an initiative that she had generated and committed to and felt I might be interested in taking part in myself. 

I'm keen to learn and grow every day and to each day become a better person than I was the day before, I want to explore, I want to think, I want to listen and I want to speak, I want to get to know the world around me and the people that I share it with and become at one with the beauty hidden amongst the destruction. I knew straight away that this was something that I should commit to.

The Steps: 

1. Decide on three goals that you wish to have accomplished in the 1000 days, they can be as big or as small as you like, they can change once you've accomplished them, and you can have little goals to work towards on the way to your big goals. They're your goals, you can do them however you wish. 

2. State your goals 

3. Begin your journey

4. Post updates in any means that you wish, with the day of your journey.

Today could be the start of the rest of my life, having battled with mental health and several personal problems, with my mental health being so bad lately, today is the day that I gave myself the kick up the butt that I needed. 

I could either give up, I could end it all, walk away, and never know what the future could hold, and hurt the people that I care the most about, or I could find some strength and turn it all around, today has to be that turning point, there's no other option. 

I'll be posting on here daily with my progress, please feel free to follow my progress as I'll be posting on all social media platforms. Follow my journey: Twitter,Instagram and my Facebook #thousanddaytransformation #tdt