little white truths

I did my own search on this topic yesterday because I don't feel like writing reviews at the moment so I've wanted to expand my horizons, and while I did find some content on this topic, none of it was what I was after.

So I thought, there you go - write a post on this topic. And in the process I might come up with some ideas that I would like to post on myself, so in many ways I'll be killing two birds with one stone.

Below are some post and video ideas for January that I myself would like to write, read or watch.

Resolutions... But not as we know them

Everyone always asks each other about resolutions for the new year but most people don't really want to talk about it - and, to be honest, we all tend to repeat the same kinds of things. 'Well I'd like to lose weight, eat better, exercise more, spend less and save more...' Boring. We've heard it all before and it's not telling us anything we don't know. 

For example, we all know that the best way to lose weight is to eat well and exercise more (fitness is 75 per cent diet and 25 per cent exercise, in my experience - I learned that the hard way), but have you recently become more fit and did you do something different to achieve that? Tell us about it. It might be helpful.

Do you want to spring clean your house before we get too far into the new year? Join the club. But how will you do it? Tell us; get specific. There's a reason why the KonMari method of spring-cleaning (see the bestseller, The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo) spread like wildfire: we all want less junk in our homes and most of us aren't that great at achieving it. Have you learned anything helpful about spring-cleaning that you'd like to share?

For example, I recently did my 2018 resolutions (see here) and they were all about decluttering in some shape or form - but I got into detail. Eg I mentioned all the expired medications we have lying around, the almost-finished tubes of nappy cream, the pile of hotel toiletries we've wound up with but never use... Things like that. The reason why I did this is because I hoped that it might make some people smile in recognition (surely we all have expired medications lying around, but we never talk about them), and that it might make others think: 'Oh, yes, I remember now. I need to do that too.'

So if you're going to post on resolutions, do so - but make them interesting and specific, or at least funny. Divide your posts or videos if you need to: eg, one on how you're going to declutter your home; one on your panning resolutions; one on how you're going to get better at staying in touch with friends this year. The list could go on. There's plenty of material in the 'resolutions' field but not enough that deals with the nitty-gritty. 

In sum

Hopefully you've found some ideas about what kind of posts or videos you could make in January - or hopefully I've at least sparked some ideas of your own.

And if nothing else, why don't you write a post or make a video containing ideas for other people, about what content they could generate in January? There's not enough content on this so now's the time to make some.

And of course, with all the ideas above and with whatever post ideas you come up with for January, you can always do them again each year and let your readers/viewers know what has or hasn't changed, and why.

That's all from me! Hope all's well with you, and speak soon x

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