ALY ALLEN | THE BLOG

so it's a new year. and i purposely didn't write out my "resolutions" or "goals" on january 1st. i have a couple reasons/excuses for why. 1) it's hard for me to set anything in stone. i'm afraid of failing, and you knowing about it , quite honestly. but i'm over that today. my life is not all buttoned up with a bow on top. not even close. i'm not organized and i'm kinda lazy and i start a lot of things without ever finishing. but the things is?  i think some of you might be that way too, so why should i try to hide that part of myself? we're all in this together, right? 2) i don't like arbitrarily writing things down like i do my christmas list . that's not what a new year is for. i do view it as a fresh start, but not to accomplish all the things i think i want to accomplish . it's not in my nature to finish everything i start anyway, so that's just setting myself up for failure. the last few years i've deci...

i am a chronic project-starter. like, i start ten projects and i finish two of them. i hate this about myself, but it's just who i am, no matter how badly i want to change it. i'm also a book starter, as opposed to a book finisher. i'll start a book and get so enveloped in it that i'll hail it as the best book i've ever read, start applying its principles, and then set it down... and never pick it back up. i'll get distracted and life will move on as the dust settles on the beloved book. soon enough another book will catch my fancy and i'll start that one. and so the cycle continues. i wouldn't call myself "a reader", so that probably doesn't help either. this is my current pile of loved-them-so-much-that-they-remain-unfinished books. and there are about six more sitting unfinished in my kindle app . seriously, it's like a disorder. so, i'm forcing myself to finish all of them before i'm allowed to pick up a new book...