Goal Check in!!! <3

My friend Eva took this picture at our friend's birthday party this past weekend. Life really feels like this disco ball

Hi my tunes!! ฅ^>⩊<^ ฅ

It’s that time of the semester for my DJ blog!! I guess this will be my mid semester check for my goal progress. At the beginning of the year, I made a set of goals for the year, like everyone does and I had some specific goals for this semester. I’ll go over like 4 of these goals.

We’re gonna start off a little basic but my top goal this year was to work out consistently. I fear I got my heart broken last semester, and I got into this mindset that next summer will be my it girl summer. I just wanted to develop a healthier relationship with my body and feel confident for my birthday. While I haven't weighed myself recently, (I’m low key terrified because I fear I’ll begin to restrict my eating to see faster progress or give up…) I’ve felt the progress through my clothes and how much I can lift!!! I can definitely feel it in my work out clothes because my t-shirts are baggier and my leggings/shorts don’t hug my lower belly pooch as much either! I’ve been really great at going to the gym at a minimum of 3 days a week, with a max of 5 days. Lowkey tho… I’m thinking of adding a cardio session in the morning so all I focus on at night is lifting and stretching. I’m telling y’all, I’m doing a generational lock in before I go to China this summer.

Talking about traveling abroad, another goal of mine was to study abroad in China so I can start learning Mandarin with the end goal of completing a Chinese minor for my degree. Well, I got into the program and I’m taking a language intensive course to kick off my Mandarin learning journey. I’m genuinely so nervous for this trip. This will be my first time going to Asia in my life and going to a place abroad with no family. It’s something I was striving for like two years back and genuinely seeing this dream come in fruition… Its genuinely so crazy. Life is genuinely lifting and I fear to keep this up, I gotta keep manifesting everything. I’m in the process of completing this goal!!! The long-term goal is to go abroad during the 2027 spring semester and do an internship there. I’m basically a quarter done with this goal and again, it feels surreal. WE OUTSIDE THIS SUMMERRRRRRR RAGHHHHHHH

While on the topic of academics, my goal for this semester was to make sure I have a majority of A’s in all my classes. It’s safe to say, I have A’s in 4 out of 5 classes. WE SO UPPPP FELLASSSS. Like genuinely, guys I’m so locked in for the next 2 years of my life. We finishing this degree fo sure and with honors. No one is stopping me. While this checkpoint has a good result, I genuinely can’t slip up because I got two tests the moment I return from spring break…. Genuinely unreal….. Like my spring break isn't even going to be a break, I’m going to spend all the time studying for my exams….. This is so CRAZY. Either way, I just wanna give a heads up to all my friends but if I accidentally don’t reply to you in like 2 weeks, I’m genuinely so sorry. I’m probably just swamped with assignments, work, and all of my extra curriculars. I’ll get back to all of y’all soon tho! Trustttttttt

The last goal I’m going to cover is super wide, but I really wanted to embrace my creative side this semester. I started off super strong with practicing my guitar, scrap booking, creating graphics for my DJ show, and learning more about music period. However, as the semester picked up….. I genuinely have not kept up with anything and I’m so drained. I fear it's all the tests being spread out horribly. I never have a break from them, and it kills me. Not only that, but my job is also giving me more hours and it's like all the whimsiness I had in me is being sucked out of my soul. HOWEVER NOT ALL IS LOST!!!!! To no cause further burnout, I will be learning to edit vlogs and maybe work on motion graphics to keep my creative spirit alive. Plus, I’ll definitely be picking up my guitar now again because I’m going through a shoegaze phase again. I think I just need to learn to have a healthy balance with school and creating fun things. I do have to say, making whimsical art genuinely makes me sooo happy I need to tap in again. I think that will be the goal I will work on more during the semester!!

If you made it this far, thank you!!!! By reading this, you’re helping me keep myself accountable. Wait….. that actually sounded like I have my life together. oh geez, I felt like I aged 2 more years. Errrrrrr Whatever. Thanks for tuning in my tunes. I do have plans when I go to China that I need to work out first but I’ll keep y'all in the loop. Stay safe and the semester is halfway done, y'all got this!

Signing off,

Sashis <3