- Happy New Year! It is 2017.
2017 everybody.
What?
Well, it's actually 2016 when I'm filming this.
Hey future Hannah, how's that hangover doing?
Yeah, you forgot to drink water
before you went to bed, didn't you?
I knew it. Don't worry.
I've left some paracetamol on your bedside table
and a bottle of water, so you're welcome.
I hope you had a good night though.
Did you get a kiss at midnight?
Present Hannah, me, right now, is not anticipating it.
Not really expecting it, so if you did get one,
that's news to me, complete surprise.
But, if you didn't, cool.
That's what I was expecting, so no worries.
2017.
If you have been watching my videos for about two years now,
you'll know that at the beginning of the year,
I like to set myself 10 New Year's resolutions.
If you want to see how well I did in 2016's resolutions,
I will have written a blog post reflecting on all of those,
which I will link in the description
and you can go check out.
But this video is going to be my 2017 resolutions.
Now to be honest, I don't put a lot of pressure on me
to fulfil or complete these resolutions
because what they are to me are my priorities right now.
And I accept that priorities change.
And so I'm not going to punish myself if I don't
complete these things or continue with these things.
For me, the beginning of the calendar year
is just a great time to check in with myself
and be like, "Okay, what are my big priorities
"and things I want to accomplish and do this year?"
But then, also I do have to continue to check in
with myself throughout the year and be like,
"Is this still what I want?"
Maybe I want something different now,
or "Is this working out?
"This is causing me more stress than pleasure,"
whatever it is and let's change that.
Everyone's got a different way that they do resolutions
and what they mean for them, but just FYI,
that is my mindset going into this.
Number one: the 50 book challenge.
This has been the top of my list the last two years.
I did not complete it this year,
but I did do better than last year.
So this is it.
We just keep setting myself the goal of 50 books,
and then maybe each year, I'll just get closer
and closer to it, so as long as I have that goal there,
I will keep reading, and I love reading.
Number two: visit three new countries.
So I did a lot of travelling in 2016,
but not to many new places, and often
it was back and forth to the U.S.
I love travelling.
And so I want to make it a priority
of mine to go to new places.
I want to see new countries and do new things.
I don't exactly know what those three places
are going to be yet, but we'll see.
Number three: New York?
Question mark?
So, ever since I visited New York, when I was 17,
I've known that I wanted to live there.
And I keep saying this to myself, to my friends, like
"One day I want to live in New York. Yeah one day, one day."
And it's never going to happen
if I just keep saying "one day."
And I don't want to be on my death bed when I'm an old woman
thinking "Oh I wish I'd have lived in New York
"at some point, why didn't I ever do that?"
And now, when I'm young and I don't have a mortgage,
I don't have kids, also I'm single,
like I don't have a lot of things tying me down right now.
And so, now is the time to go.
This is gonna be the year where I make
some serious decisions about living in New York.
I don't want to live in New York permanently,
but I do want to live there for a good few months maybe.
2017 decision making: New York?
Question mark?
Number four: write book number two.
Okay, this is not a book announcement.
I don't have a book deal for the second book.
I have a book deal for the first book,
doing it, coming out the 6th of April, 2017.
But, I've had an idea for what I want my second book to be,
and so, gotta write it, so that's what I'm going to do.
In 2017, I'm gonna write another book and then see
if anyone else wants to publish that.
That would be great.
I'm not gonna tell you what it is.
Need to write it first.
Number five: also on the theme of writing,
write some scripted comedy.
Okay, this is just something that has been playing
on my mind for so long, maybe like a year or two.
Kind of in the vain of like girls in Broad City, Fleabag,
things like that they just really, really inspire me.
I really don't know much about writing,
but I have this note in my phone where I'm just constantly
writing down scenarios of random things that happen to me
in my life or stories I hear from friends that I'm like,
"That would be a really great thing that would make
"a great scenario or a scene or something."
But I want 2017 to be the year I actually follow through
with all of my ideas and actually try
and put something to paper.
No pressure to like, pitch it or make it
or anything like that, I just want to have an idea
for a show or something.
Number six: about making the world a better place.
Ahhh.
You may have seen my "How Cruel is My Makeup Bag?" video,
so one of the things is, cruelty-free makeup,
but also skincare and body products
and hair products and all of that stuff.
The year 2017 is going to be the year
that when a product runs out, I replace it
with something that's cruelty-free.
The other thing is ethical or sustainable clothing.
I don't really shop that much, but I want to do
a bit more research into more ethical brands.
I want to shop in charity shops more.
This jumper is actually from a charity shop, ha ha ha.
I'm not gonna lie, I really do feel the pressure to have
like new, shiny, exciting things, especially because
I go to a lot of events where
my picture is going to be taken.
I want a really fancy, nice new dress.
But I want to try and find a way to do it more ethically,
or, I don't know, figuring out.
2017 figure that shit out.
Number seven: this is a bit of an abstract one.
It's give people a chance, and
that is in a romantic context.
I am a very fickle person.
I date a lot or I meet people and I get bored quite easily.
Where maybe, I would go on one date and I'm like,
"Nah, wasn't feeling it," and then I never go
on a second date or a third date or ever.
I want to give people a chance and go on that second date,
go on that third date, to maybe see if there's something
there that, you know, I didn't see before, or whatever.
We'll see how that goes.
Number eight: take a holiday with no internet, for a week.
No scheduled tweets, no scheduled videos, nothing.
Like take a full internet work holiday.
Lay on a beach somewhere, Hannah, and just read.
Lay on a beach and sunbathe and go swimming
and just relax, just like switch off.
Switch off, Hannah.
Please, just, do it for me.
This is the one, out of all of the resolutions,
if I don't do, I'm gonna be mad at myself.
So, please, hold me accountable to that.
I will not use the internet for a week.
I will go on a holiday.
I will have a real holiday.
Wow I'm really angry about that.
Number nine: go to more shows in London.
So theatre and comedy.
They're kinda like my main priority right now.
I want to see loads of character comedy,
sketches, stand-up.
I just wanna see live things that I find funny
and inspiring and interesting
and innovative and all of that stuff.
I couldn't go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year
because I was writing my book, so 2017 I need to like,
carve out a week in my diary and be like,
"I'm going to Edinburgh Fringe and you can't stop me.
"I am going to spend a whole week drinking and going
"to comedy shows and there's nothing you can do about it."
Number 10: this is also kind of a big picture weird one,
but it's figure out my big business plan, basically.
I feel like with this YouTube thing I'm just riding
the wave, and I love riding the wave 'cause it's
a very exciting wave, but I want to expand
and I want something to fall back on
and I want a plan and I want structure and I want
to kind of zoom out a bit and be like, "Big picture,
"Where do I want to be in five years time? 10 years time?"
And start thinking about how I want to get there.
So I have a business, and that business employs me
and one other person who's my intern
who works with me one day a week.
But I want to try and figure out how to expand from there.
If I need to expand from there and what I want
out of this whole thing.
Because, ultimately, the idea of being a boss
and a businesswoman and having my
own media empire excites me.
But I have no idea what that looks like, or anything, so.
Currently just riding the wave.
So there are my 10 New Year resolutions.
I realised that they're not exactly resolutions.
They're more like 2017 goals.
I don't know.
But we're still gonna call them resolutions.
But, like I said, priorities change, people change,
circumstances change, so we'll see how 2017 goes, eh?
I hope you enjoyed this video
and I hope you enjoyed Vlognukkah.
Normal, weekly videos will resume soon, I guess.
Please give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it
and let me know your resolutions or 2017 goals
in the comments below because I love hearing
other people's ones and then maybe you can find
some inspiration if you haven't come up with any yet,
and you see some other people's ideas.
Don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you soon.
Bye!
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