How to make it work: New year, new me.

Right, Christmas and new year are long gone, time to get your space in order, lets call it a pre spring, spring clean. 

The reason the new year, new me plan fails relentlessly every time is because you go into the new year as the old you, this allows barely any room for personal growth. This year I decided not to do this & I think you should too, get the bin bags out, go through your space, room, studio, flat, drawer by drawer, box by box, bag by bag. Get rid of all the things you have been holding on to for the last God knows how many years, reorganise every cupboard and drawer in the house, get your ship in shape. My auntie always tells me to start as you mean to go on, my take on this is, if you want a new you, you need to make a change to the old you.

I also ordered a new capsule wardrobe for myself so I can start working on moulding myself into the type of person I want to be, superficial, maybe, necessary, yes. I have a new job which I started late last year and I want to move up, I have to dress for success, the clothes I have ordered have given me a new mindset and offered that confidence I was unable to have in my previous wardrobe, I haven't done a huge shopping spree for a few years, my taste has changed significantly in that time, meaning I could never feel truly comfortable with myself. 

I also made sure to take care of the house too, I cleared everything out, including the dreaded Tupperware that was strewn across the cupboards. My new kitchen is significantly smaller than my last one and it doesn't function well with everything from my last place. I bolted down to ikea with the better half to get some new little bits for the flat that we've been meaning to do for the last 6 months, got rid of the glasses we had from our old flat, we had a look at new crockery to replace the few things we actually have left that aren't absolutely ruined, we got new decor bits for the house and started looking into a new sofa as ours has needed to be replaced since the day we brought it!

The result of this is a new me for this new year, I feel calm, I feel at peace, I changed & grew a lot in 2015, my space needed to change & grow with me, otherwise I would be held back by memories of could haves or would haves that have never amounted to anything the whole time I have been holding on to them. Plus the lack of clutter makes me feel so so much happier! 

One final thing I would suggest and it honestly sounds so ridiculous, invest in a plant or a few, me and the better half have created a mini greenhouse in our studio flat as we don't have a garden any more and missed the feel of it, it has improved both of our moods so much watching these seeds turn into beautiful little plants and having something to look after! It also looks pretty damn cool, the house smells beautiful all the time and we have fresh herbs that we have grown ourselves to use for food, it honestly feels lush and really expresses who we are. There's only so much you can do to a flat when renting so this is a nice and easy way to inject some personality without getting in trouble with your landlord or lady.