Journey to Healthy... How I want to do it!

So in the last 2 days, I've been thinking about planning a routine for my everyday life.
One of my biggest problems since forever has been working out. I don't like sports and having an active lifestyle has been a challenge. However, I think I might have just had a massive light bulb over my head!

So, I was thinking: "I usually suck at achieving long term goals. I tend to forget about them, or become discouraged, since I find it too hard to reach and I'm too lazy to do the work."
And that's when it hit me. "Set short term goals instead! Duh!" I have to admit I was inspired by Just Dance 3, the Wii game. They have a 7-day challenge section where you have to earn a certain number of Sweat Points per day, in a week, and I've started doing that yesterday.

I realized that psychologically, this is so much more motivating for me than setting long term goals.
It kinda reminds me of the saying "Live day by day." Basically, the more you focus on the present, the more you'll make out of it. So to me, setting goals for the year is unrealistic because I have to think of all the days I will have to work towards my goals. However, my idea of setting a weekly goal seems so much more easy to do, especially if you want to shift your lifestyle. You only have to worry about the 7 following days, not 365!

So I'm starting by taking baby steps. My goal for this week is to finish my Just Dance 7-day challenge successfully. I know I can earn all my points easily, the challenge is to actually take the time to do it each day. I also have another goal which is unfortunately not very specific: eat more fruits and veggies.
I think that the more specific your goals are, the more you will be able to achieve them. I should be deciding on a certain number or a certain category instead of being general, but for this week, I'll see what I can do with this general goal.
My plan is to continue shifting my lifestyle in this way: one week at a time, a different goal each week. After time, some things will start becoming part of my routine without me noticing, so hopefully, by next year, I can say that I've become healthier.

And yes, I will try to make a weekly blog post stating what my goal for the next week is, and how the previous week went. Can't wait to see where this takes me, and your support is greatly appreciated!

xox :)

No makeup?

So, I haven't blogged in a while. And I know I made that little list of what I wanted to blog about but thing is, it doesn't inspire me.

I have to admit I'm being a little lazy too but I guess it's okay. I started school 2 weeks ago and after 5 weeks of winter break, I'm still not back on track.

However, I'm planning on changing that. Now that I'm aware of the dynamic in most of my classes, I know how much I need to work for most of them, so I'm in the process of creating my homework schedule. 

Among those hours, I really want to find time to work out, or simply move a bit, whether it's playing Just Dance on the Wii or actually doing pull-ups and all that jazz.
In there, I want to find a time where I can blog.

Speaking of blogging, the reason that this is entitled "no makeup?" is because I haven't been into makeup that much, lately. I don't watch as many tutorials, I don't wear a lot of makeup anymore, and I haven't purchased makeup in a long time! So, you must understand that it's hard to keep up a beauty blog when I'm being more "au naturel" and where I really don't have much to talk about. For this reason, I am thinking of making my blog very miscellaneous.
I write for my college's newspaper, and I only write about things that interest me, and when it doesn't, the writing process becomes excessively hard and painful for me. So I don't want to force myself to write about beauty if I don't care about it as much. Therefore, this blog will probably become more "open," where I'll write about whatever the heck I want, and yes, there will be beauty stuff in there, but also food, experiences, thoughts, songs, videos I enjoy, etc. I will try to keep up the VOTW series but no strictly beauty-related.
Therefore, yes, this blog will become more personal in a way.

I hope you will bear with me as I'm trying to get into a routine again. But mostly, I hope you will stick with me and my blog, and find out where it's going!

xox, Alexx

Coming soon...

As you can probably tell if you read my blog regularly, I've been slacking on the job to get posts up.
I am simply having a writer's block. Not just for this baby, also for my school newspaper. I am totally uninspired and it's stressing me out.

So, I thought that I would help myself and create a list of posts I wish to write soon for this blog.
You can help me by commenting on which you are most interested in, as this is more of a brainstorming and I might not write all of them.

Here goes:

• Review of my Cortex flat iron
• Recently purchased nail polish
• Favorite products of 2011
• DIY Box of Memories (very easy but cute gift idea)
• Favorite moments of 2011
• New Year's Resolutions

I'll hopefully get to do these articles ASAP.

Which would you like to see first? What tips do you have to getting rid of writer's block?

Where have I been?

I know I've been M.I.A. lately.
As most of you, I've been enjoying my winter vacation.
I spent Christmas with my mother. I also made my own Christmas log! It took 5 hours!
It's chocolate, with coconut-rum filling and chocolate frosting.

I also went to my boyfriend's aunt's house for Christmas dinner and had a good time. A few days passed and I went to a Christmas-&-New-Year's party with some friends. Then, my boyfriend came to my father's house on the 31st. Today, we're back from a mini road trip, we went to visit his step-dad's family at a 3-hours drive yesterday and we're back today.

As you can tell, there wasn't really anything I could blog about. However, I will be back at home soon and will be able to review a flat iron I received for Christmas.

Do you have any requests for future blog posts? How were your holidays?