#100happydays : DAYS 91-100

I've been meaning to do this post for almost a fortnight but life - read: dissertation - consistently got in the way and I just haven't had the chance. I'm incredibly pleased to say that I actually finished the 100 happy days challenge on time and never missed a single day. I don't think I've ever done something for 100 consecutive days, and I know I've never stuck to a New Year's Resolution quite like this. As silly as it sounds, for me this is quite an achievement. I have very little faith in my abilities and find it impossible to believe I can actually do anything I set my mind to. I'm the type of person that needs constant validation and evidence to prove the little voices of self-doubt in my head wrong, and this challenge has ended up being the perfect example of my ability to actually follow something through to the end. Challenges in the future should feel a little less daunting now.

#100happydays : DAYS 81-90

So this is it: the penultimate 10 days of the challenge!

#100happydays : DAYS 71-80

The end is in sight now! I genuinely cannot believe I've kept this up for 80 days: I don't think I've ever consistently done something for 80 days apart from procrastinate, and that doesn't really count…

#100happydays : DAYS 61-70

It's a few days late as Week 20 is quite literally killing me, but here's the next 10 days of #100happydays!

#100happydays : DAYS 51-60

Here's another 10 days of the challenge!

#100happydays : DAYS 41-50

I can't quite believe it: I've reached the half way point!

Final year is really killing me at the moment and I know it's only going to get worse, so I'm appreciating this challenge more and more with each 10 days that passes.

#100happydays : DAYS 31-40

So, here's another 10 happy days!

#100happydays : DAYS 21-30

I'm a little shocked at how I'm still doing this: I thought I'd have given up a long time ago!

#100happydays : DAYS 11-20

I love how over the last few weeks the #100happydays concept has really taken off. My Facebook and Twitter feeds have been full of people posting pictures of what makes them happy, and surely this kind of positivity can only be a good thing when the weather's so depressing and deadlines are popping up all over the place. As January draws to a close and my stress levels increase, having something to smile about each day is a total God send.

#100happydays : DAYS 1-10

My New Year's Resolutions are always highly ambitious and I'm pretty much guaranteed to break them a fortnight in. I've never been able to keep a diary, don't have the time to start learning a new language now and find it impossible to go to bed before midnight. They've always been doomed to fail from the beginning, so this year I was desperately in search of something more attainable, that I'd enjoy doing, and that I wouldn't beat myself up about if I wobbled temporarily off track.