Timetobeme's Blog

I have , like many people, struggled each year with my yearly goals or resolutions that never seem to go anywhere. I end up the year usually where I left off. Many times worse off.

Like the catepiller pictured in my header picture, I am looking at the new year as a new start, figuring out a new me. I want this year to be transformative

I am not willing to spend another year spinning my wheels. I am over it. I want to do some things different. So, I took a new route , I actually talked to ChatGTP. This is something I never in my life thought I would do.

I decided to check it out when a friend of mine suggested it. I was a bit leary, but figured it was worth a try. I have found that the more information it has, the more help it is.

I told it all about my heart surgery and my struggles with finding the right way to eat, and asked it what I need to do. Food, excercise, suppliments, medications, you name it. When I did see my cardiologist and ran by these things I had learned, he was completely in agreement. So, I am not doing stuff without talking to my doctor, wanted to make that very clear !!

I told it the foods we had in the house and what I had to work with and it told me what I needed to eat for health > I need more protein, and it gave me all the other nutritional information I needed . I have been eating way too little protein for someone my age who had heart surgery. I am excited to have a basic plan on what to do, and at any point I want it, it will give me a detailed plan for a month or longer. That is not for me, I am happier just knowing the foods to eat, and how much and then using the foods on hand with those perimeters.

Then I told it my personal struggles. A YouTube channel that is going on 8 years old with very little progress. Just over 3000 subs and I have made about 500 dollars in all those years. The amount of work I have been putting in lately to very slowly speed up earnings and views is overwelming and just not fun anymore. I had wanted a channel I could vlog on, create on, cook on, and ended up with a craft/beading channel.

I told Chat GTP how my happiest time creatively was when my focus was on bloggling and photograpy and creating and writing about it. YouTube was not even in my thoughts at that time. This was back in 2012. I had so few crafting supplies, a fraction of what I have now, and I was so much happier. More stuff does not mean a happier creator. Nope. Just a more stressed one.

I told it how I used to write, and read, and take photos and now I watch a lot of YouTube and rarely do those other things anymore.

It told me based on what I had told it, I was a story teller. I liked to write, take photos, and talk about life through vlogging. It told me to make those things the focus going forward and do the other things for fun. If I want to create, create, if I want to post a video about it, post it, making the vlogging, photography and writing the focus, but abve all, create before consuming. That is so huge.

So, I am going to put my focas this year, 2026 on health. I HAVE to lose weight for my heart health. It is not vanity, it is not to look better, it is to live a long time. I have a plan now on what to do . Food, excercise, suppliments, and feel more confident about the meds I am on.

I am going to focus on writing, photography and start vlogging. I am a story teller. I used to write short stories and poetry and I also used to draw and daubled in painting. I love making ornaments and jewelry, but they are not my passion. They are definately not the thing that makes me feel fulfilled. Words are my passion. Photography. Talking to others. I never saw the connection between them all.

So, I am excited about this new year. I am excited to see what it brings my way. I firmly believe when you do those things that bring you joy, bring you to life, fulfill you, things start to change and your life starts to have more meaning and opportunities come your way.

So, this is step one. Coming back here and sharing stories. Mine, and other things that interest me. Finding my way back to myself !!

Happy New Year, 2026