Our guide to reaching your goals
Though New Years resolutions may be outdated, we’ve compiled a list of the most popular resolutions, and how you can achieve your goals in 2024.
New Year, New You
Improve mental wellbeing
Mental wellbeing has become the most common resolution in recent years, and there are options for everyone's needs.
The BCU Wellbeing app offers 24/7 support to students through live chat services and tools to help deal with stress and anxiety. If your idea of wellbeing is to get out and about more, why not try a scenic walk in one of Birmingham's beautiful parks or a trip along the canals?
Improve your fitness
You could spend on gym memberships, personal trainers and protein shakes, but that doesn't work for everyone. Instead, you could try walking or jogging around the parks of Birmingham, or a nice cycle in the city. Many of Birmingham's parks also offer free tennis courts for those looking to take up a new sport.
There's also plenty of alternate ways to get active in Birmingham, such as rock climbing and trampolining, or if you're a current BCU student, why not check out one of the student sports teams!
Learn a new skill
BCUSU offer a whole host of societies, which provide the perfect opportunity to not only learn a new skill, but make friends for life during your time at university.
Canon Hill Park may be great for walks, but it's also home to the MAC, which offer a range of classes, courses and workshops all year round, allowing you to find the perfect new hobby!
Improve your finances
We could go through and share all our own tips with you, but instead we've brought in financial expert Poku Banks to share his expertise.
Improve work-life balance
Whether it’s a simple desk calendar or an online tool, the first key to a strong work-life balance is to organise your tasks. Break your bigger tasks down into much more manageable sub-tasks, which make tackling them much less daunting and can allow you to spread out the deadlines.
