My new Academic Year Resolutions

First year of medicine has probably been one of the hardest years of my life. But I've learned so much along the way, I can't actually regret it. However, this new academic year, which I started two days ago, feels like a brand new opportunity, and therefore I'm going to do something I've never done before: A resolutions list. Here are the things I want to improve this year, the mantras I want to run in my head every single day when I wake up:

• You're not stupid. If you fail, then try again. There are always new chances to improve what you do. 
• Start moving your ass. You need to lose weight and get in shape, for your own physical and mental health. Join the gym, start running early in the mornings. Anything. 
• Work every day, be organized. Buy an agenda and actually use it. Get a binder and keep it organized, so you know what you have to study and when you learnt it. 
• Eat healthier. Your body is what allows you to enjoy your life. If your body is not healthy, neither is your mind. Healthy food can be delicious and you know it. 
• Allow yourself to dream. If you want to become a doctor and a writer, then dream of it. Dreaming is the first step to making your dream come true. Don't be afraid of your desires. 
• Enjoy your days at uni. Go to the cafeteria with your classmates whenever you can, have fun in practices and classes, learn as much as you can, be nice to those who you love and value. Be nice even to those people who you don't like. 
• Read more. If you really want to read, make the time for it. You spend a lot of time every day traveling in the metro. 
• Write more. You've joined a Creative Writing group. Go to every single class every sunday morning, and don't be afraid of reading out loud what you've written. Nobody starts being an expert, you have to learn, and that's a long process. Write just for the sake of it. You love creating worlds. Nothing's stoping you. 
• If you want to go have a drink with your friends, indulge yourself. You can't spend every waking hour studying, you'll go insane. Balance the things you love most in your life, there are 24 hours in your day, make the best of them. An afternoon with your friends won't make you fail a single subject. 
• Be confident. You have many treats you don't realize. The people around you love you because of those treats, they must be true. You're human, and you're a miracle just for that single fact.
• Tell the people you love that you love them. If you wanna kiss them, kiss them. If you wanna hug them, hug them. If you wanna tell them they're fantastic, tell them they're fantastic, because they are. 
• Read all the books you have left. They're overflowing your book-shelves, and you're dying to read them. Do it. 
• Be excited for your niece. You're going to become an aunt come February. You're going to have a new life in your hands, and it's going to be so exciting. You'll show the world to this little girl, you'll read to her, you'll dance and sing with her, you'll make her laugh and she'll make you laugh. 
• Enjoy the rain. You love the rain. Take a book and a hot cup of chocolate and think that life has given you the best gift in the world. Put on a film, on comfy pajamas, make hot chocolate and croutons and have a wonderful afternoon with mom. 
• Be grateful every single day for the things you have. You're so lucky, you have no idea.