#reinvented

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CAMILA CABELLO / MAY 2024

[snickerdoodle-goat]

Speaking to past selves ...

Evan:

Seeing the young child so stricken with grief pulls at his heartstrings. He doesn't know this boy, but he feels like he should. The way the child stares blankly at the wall, tears drying on his cheeks, is too familiar to ignore. He raises a hand as if to touch the young boy, but stops just before his fingers brush his shoulder. He pulls his hand back. Squeezes it into a fist, and lets it fall to his side. The child turns to him suddenly, and their eyes meet.

"When is he coming back?"

The child's words steal his breath away. He has to respond.

"He isn't. You'll be okay, though. There's people who love you. Just hold on, okay?" He barely knows where the words are coming from.

The child stares at him, and says nothing. His gaze turns back to the wall. The older man releases a sigh.

X:

He already knows that the young man won't take his words seriously.

"Trust your gut." He says. The younger version of himself frowns, tilts his head in confusion. As if a different perspective would help him understand.

"You have to trust yourself. Don't overthink it." He goes on. "And cherish the ones you love."

"I already do that." The younger him says. So sure of himself. So sure of the future. The older man takes a shaking breath, heavy with resignation.

"Then at least tell them. Tell them that you love them. One day, it'll be the last time you'll get to say it to them. Make sure they don't forget how much they mean to you."

Tanner:

The younger man couldn't react fast enough before he was pulled into a headlock, a familiar voice hissing into his ear.

"Life is all a test. Think before you answer or else you're going to fail, and ruin everything. Do you hear me?"

"I don't even know what you're talking about!" The younger man yelped, flailing in the iron hold of the other.

"You will when it comes down to it. You think you know it all, but you don't. Just use your fucking head, and don't fuck it up. Do not fuck it up." The older man repeated himself for emphasis, speaking in a low growl. He shut his eyes tightly, refusing to show anything but a tough exterior to his younger self.

"Things won't be perfect forever, but you can't fuck it up. Don't make life harder than it already is."

Peyton:

"Hey." A single word spoken over the quiet television makes the college student turn his head, surprised at who he sees.

"You're-"

"Lock your door, okay?" The older man quirks the corner of his lips up into a wry smile, amused at the bewildered look on his younger self's face. "And stop sleeping on the couch. It's bad for your back."

"I... Okay." The young man agreed quietly. "Noted."

"Stick close to Scott, too. He's a good man. Good friend." He went on, looking at the television that was still playing some Disney movie he had seen tons of times before. He sighed softly, smile wavering. "Lock your door. Please, just lock your door."

Isaac:

"It isn't worth it."

The words are spoken with such venom that the younger man flinched slightly.

"What do you mean?" He was almost afraid to ask.

"You don't have to be a follower. You don't need to do everything anyone tells you to do. Whatever you think you're doing it for, it isn't worth it." The older man said, both hands on the shoulders of his younger self. The highschool student glared at the other, brushing his hands off.

"Don't tell me what to do."

"You don't need to be tough for everything." The older man spoke more gently, his eyes and tone pleading with the other. "Just... Remember what I said. Make choices for yourself. Not for others. Please."

[fernandoswarcrimes]

Sighim-Aho —> Fernandoswarcrimes

[apoloniojbarriga]

[lil-noumi]

Sinpopo Brand Local Favorites Reinvented

[whistleinthedark]

Doll wardrobe - storage for my knick knacks.

[englishdeathbyinternet]

Snacking REINVENTED with Graze

[kioskopdx]

Snacking REINVENTED with Graze

[fucklestat]

i know it's been said many times before but i will never get over how jacob anderson, a british man with a british accent, not only nailed a louisiana creole accent but also developed a studiously (almost eerily) generic accent that louis uses in the present AND showed the first accent bleeding into the second accent at key moments as a way of aurally externalizing his character's inner journey. what did god put in this man when she created him.

[soulsilvers]

m/f ships where the woman is a perfect beautiful sanitized to the point of having no other character can do no wrong queen and the man is a sad pathetic wet loser but TOTALLY lovable, also known as traditional adam sandler movie gender roles,

[barnes-and-noble-official]

Jojo Siwa: I'm creating a new genre called gay pop

me fr:

[obsmiechujek]

Obsessed with the shapes of @punkitt-is-here twipie designs!!! They're getting slushies

[snickerdoodle-goat]

This world is just like earth down to the cities and places and the universe rules it follows is all based on our real world

But what if also ghosts were real

[prettieinpink]

NEW YEAR, NEW ME

( A collab with thee lovely lele @bloombabydoll )

If you want to reinvent and rebrand yourself, or just continue to make positive improvements in 2024, the first thing is to evaluate your current year. 

EVALUATION

Reflect on how things went for you. Was there continuous growth? Were there many difficult times? Did you discover anything major about yourself and so on. Try to summarise your year in (a) paragraph(s) at least. 

Oversee your goals. Which ones you didn’t, did achieve, difficult ones, easy ones and the impacts it had on your life. 

Compare your dream girl then and now. Is your visualisation of your life currently different to the one you have now and why? 

List any major losses or successes you’ve had in your life, and how they have helped you or why it matters to you. 

This evaluation can be as detailed or simple as you like, but as long as you have a decent outline of your year. 

PREPARING & PLANNING

To prepare for 2024, you want to know what you want life to be like in 2024. Something realistic to a point, but still is a growth journey. 

Think of something that you can associate with 2024. This can be a word, a symbol, art, a song, a book, a movie, a place, or even just all of these things. When you think about your goals and your journey, this is your theme. This is something that should relate to your goals or your dream girl somehow. 

For me, I chose a word and a song. My word is growth because, for me, 2023 was a year for just being able to shed my old self which I did achieve however I just felt there wasn’t much growth as an actual person and not just in my environment. 

For my song, it is Mayflowers by Proleters and Taskrok. This song is the epitome of what I would imagine, is the most polished mindset. I would say perfect, but having a perfect mindset is near impossible. I want to have a mindset glow up because I’ve just been hard on myself lately which has caused my confidence to plummet. 

Before we get into the fun part of the preparation stage, we have to do some organisation in our life. I want you to take a look at your daily lifestyle and your habits, and be completely unashamed about this. 

Then categorise these habits into two sections; Leave and Leap. Leave habits are habits that you are leaving behind in 2023, leap habits are habits that are leaping into 2024 with you. 

Any habits that are self-destructive, addictive or generally harmful are leave habits. Beneficial habits and self-building are leaping with you into the new year.

I want you to do the same for people in your life, all environments (school, work, online etc) and anything else you believe needs to be sorted out. 

This works better if you can reason with yourself why it is a leaping or leaving habit, but don’t try to convince yourself a bad habit is good or vice versa. 

Now, I want you to document an honest paragraph about who you are right now. List your bad and good habits, your strengths and weaknesses and your behaviours. This one requires a bit more detail. 

Then, write a paragraph about who you will be in 2024, your dream girl. List her habits, lifestyle, behaviours, mindset, strengths and anything else extra. I’ll explain later but do not include materialistic desires in this your dream girl. Once again, this one also requires details. 

Stemming from those paragraphs, I want you to create specific and achievable goals. SMART goals are best, but I want to introduce you to how I set goals. 

I divide my year into quarters. For each 3 months, I have 3-5 goals for those months. Usually, it’s one from each area of my life. Then, I break down these goals. 

Questions and How They Help 

Why do I want to do this goal - For motivation and commitment. 

How it’ll benefit me - For the sake of improvement. 

How can I involve myself in this goal - To achieve your goal.  

I prefer this method because it is a lot simpler for me, as I am just a young girl and my bigger goals are more in the future in which I’ll utilise SMART goals. 

To create good goals; Make sure they align with your current values and life principles first. Try to avoid creating goals that you have just taken from the internet. Those goals just aren’t it and you most likely won’t follow through with it. 

Be specific. Don’t say you want to eat more healthily, instead say you want to include (a certain group of veggies/fruits) in your diet and reduce the intake of ( food/drink). 

E.g using eating healthy example

I want to eat healthy -> I want to start including foods that boost my immunity system and support my skin while reducing those that have the opposite effect. 

Then break down those quarterly goals into monthly, weekly and daily goals. Make these habits that you can establish in your lifestyle and have a way in which you can refer back to your progress. 

EXAMPLE GOAL BREAKDOWN

Quarterly Goal - Read 6 books.  

Monthly Goal - Finish 2 books.

Weekly Goal - Be or near half way of one book.

Daily Goal - 20 minutes of reading per day. 

AREAS TO SET GOALS IN YOUR LIFE

Academics

Spiritual

Fitness/sport

Health and wellbeing

Mental health

Personal life

Relationships

Hobbies and recreation

Now for the best part- vision boards! Collect all of your favourite images that embody your quarters or the whole year, then put them in one place where you can see them regularly!

Some ideas are a scrapbook, Pinterest boards, mood boards, playlists etc. 

Choose your theme; It can be your healthy girl era, your academic come back or whatever you want. You can have more than two btw.

Use quotes! Then actually say them in your daily life as a way to shift your mindset to reflect said quote.

Include inspirational people. It doesn't even have to be a millionaire or a very well established person, it could be your friends or someone on the internet.

Be imaginative. Your vision board doesn't have to realistic in my opinion, as the whole point of it to me is that viewing it daily and considering it to be part of your life one day allows for you to open up to those opportunities.

Materialistic Wants

I feel obligated to make this a separate section. This section is practically tangible objects that you want.

However, when choosing this said object that you want, mindfully think about why you want that thing specifically.

It doesn’t have to be meaningful, but as long as each thing on that list has got a purpose to you, and will serve you, I think it’s all good!

Conclusion

If you want, you can definitely start implementing habits before January. However, I believe that as long as you go into 2024 at least knowing who you want to be and shedding away any limiting beliefs, you’ll be fine.

Make sure to incorporate some self care rituals into your daily life as well✨

To end this, I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas! And that 2024 they will achieve to close that gap with their current selves and their dream girl selves! 💖🙏

[mourninglamby]

always afraid, but never to die

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