The last time I posted about my Soul Goals was in October, which is when things started feeling a bit crazy for me. My routine had gone by the wayside –– I wasn't eating right or working out regularly, I hadn't meditated in months and I was just feeling stressed out. Instead of working to fix that, I just let myself sink deeper and deeper into negative emotions and energies. That might sound like an awful thing to do and I certainly didn't do it intentionally, but it ended up being one of the best things that had happened to me in a long while.

Sometimes you have to let yourself feel what you're feeling and not fight it. I hate the saying everything happens for a reason because people usually only say it when something bad happens –– but guess what? Every once in a while, things do happen for reasons you aren't yet aware of. And that is what happened to me. Those few months of wallowing, though miserable, were like a chrysalis for me. I did a lot of thinking, feeling and reevaluating, and reemerged with a new mindset and perspective.

It is with this new mindset and perspective that I am launching headfirst into some new Soul Goals for 2017. If you're new to my Soul Goals, they are three goals that I set each month that I hope will influence my life in a positive way –– either physically, emotionally or spiritually. I would usually recap my previous goals and let you know how I did, but I'm sure you already know how those went. Besides, a new year is a new start so I'm going to start fresh with my Soul Goals.

1. Only publish content I am excited to share. This kind of goes hand-in-hand with my last two posts. I don't want to go back to inauthentic, overly scheduled, stale content that I only publish because it was on my content calendar that a post needed to go out that day. I want everything I share to have a purpose or an intention, to be something I am proud to put out into the world. Whether that is one post per week or five –– or even zero –– I think it will be more beneficial for all of us to only put out into the world what makes us feel good.

2. Keep up with bullet journaling. Last year, I attempted bullet journaling and I didn't make it very far –– no, seriously, I only made it through one week before I gave up and decided to-do lists were the way to go. I was stuck in a cycle of comparison, believing that my bullet journal could only be successful if it looked like the ones on Instagram and Pinterest. But when FemmeHead posted a video on her bullet journal, I realized how silly I had been. A bullet journal doesn't have to be perfect or look a certain way. If you create a weekly layout that doesn't work for you, fine! You can try a different one the next week... And the next one, and the next one, until you find what works for you. Right now, I am obsessed with my bullet journal and I'm hoping the lovin' lasts all month.

3. Find a daily routine that works for me. As I said, towards the end of 2016 I found that a lot of the habits and routines that I found enriching had disappeared from my days and nights. It messed with my sleep schedule, my health and just my overall happiness. So I am wanting to get some sort of routine in my life again and this month I want to focus on finding what works. Currently, that involves daily meditation and spiritual study, as well as reading and journaling. I wanted to incorporate oil pulling, but that may have to work it's way in next month.