Why and How I intend to be more creative this year!

This year I’ve made it my mission to be more creative and fill my mind with more colour and fulfilment and less despair and waste. I came to a conclusion after a discussion with a friend a few weeks ago that I use social media too much. If I’m bored, watching something casually rather than intently, can’t sleep or just a time passer I’m normally on my phone. But it’s nothing good. It’s scrolling through hours and hours of Facebook, Twitter or probably my biggest downfall... Instagram! 


Don’t get me wrong I love posting about my life and hearing about others. The idea that we can make change, discover or create things through a picture, status or hashtag is a wonderful thing. But there’s the downfall, the toxic side. Normally, the comment section, waiting for that certain person to like or comment on your picture, thinking peoples lives are perfect because they post a cute selfie and the amount of editing we think is necessary to look pretty! 


So I’ve decided to cut down and do things I enjoy! My resolution of this year is to read more. I could spend so much money buying books, but what’s the point if I don’t read them? I’m on my second book of the year and it’s already making me happier and every time I read I feel like I'm teaching my brain more and the thought that I’ve read an entire book makes me feel extremely accomplished! 

I play the wii with my siblings, sometimes we sing, sometimes we dance and sometimes we play tennis. It’s a form of exercise and it allows us to bond listen to music and just enjoy spending time together plus a baseball match makes us very competitive!

A new one for this year is colouring! It may sound childish but firstly it’s an adult colouring book and secondly who cares? A Doctor Who colouring book given to me four years ago and finally I’ve brought some crayons and started it. I can kill hours colouring bits and pieces and finishing a colouring is such a lovely achievement! I finished the first one the other day and it made me feel very happy.

My scrapbook. Christmas 2018 after some inspiration from Carrie Hope Fletcher I asked for a sprocket printer. It prints off mini photos with sticky backs as if they’re stickers. At first I wasn’t sure what to do with it but after a trip to WH Smith I decided a scrapbook would be a brilliant way to kill time. A scrapbook with black pages and two glitter pens later and I love to document events with my sticker books. From concerts and weddings to days out with family and friends. Some of my best memories and the millions of photos I take are all stored inside that books and I’m not even halfway through.

After some inspiration from my Mom who did it last year. Me and my best friend are now currently trying to decide whether to do the local mud run for Cancer Research. A charity close to our hearts as it’s effected both of our families and the lives of so many around us. So maybe I’ll start running in preparation for that. But that’s one that’s still up for debate. I’m quite lazy, health and fitness isn’t my forte and I’m not often one for exercise so maybe this could be something new and exciting for me.



Finally, this blog! Writing is a brilliant skill and being able to hopefully inspire or just entertain some people with my random thoughts brings me great joy. And if not writing the blog posts and posting the social media side makes me feel even more creative and if I’m making a better use of my time rather than doing buzz feed quizzes and looking at Disney memes.


So my overall decision isn’t to quit social media, just to distance myself. Not let it take over my life and not look back in fifty years and have no memories of good books, fun times or colourings and scrapbooks to look back on. Maybe try this detox yourself and do something you enjoy to spread your time more evenly.

- Courtney -