goals

Staying Motivated Every Day

Working from home has a ton of benefits, obviously. But I found when I first bit the bullet almost a year ago, I didn't realise at first just how much I was going to have to really motivate myself every day. I mean, I'm generally quite an ambitious and driven person anyway, but having to ensure I'm doing work every single day and making enough money is extremely hard. Even for me!

So through trial and error I have found some things that work for me, and I feel I've only gotten better and better. I thought I'd share some of these tips today, as they could definitely benefit anyway who needs to motivate themselves to do something. This can apply to anything really; studying, blogging, starting a small business.

I'm a very goal orientated person, which I've spoken about before in a previous post. Goals keep me inspired, motivated and on the right track. So 2016 started with me writing down everything I wanted to achieve this year, and there were a few blogging goals in there, of course.

Mainly they were about trying to hit certain statistics, or try new things - and most of them have been really successful which I'm thankful for. There are some I'm still working on too which is great, and there are even some I changed my mind about. For the record, it's okay to do this! Reassessing what you want is a good thing, and changing your mind is more than alright.

Today I wanted to share with you guys some of my goals for the rest of the year, and the little steps I'm going to take, to hopefully achieve them.

The end of March is here, which means my birthday is mere MINUTES away now. Okay maybe not minutes... 16 days more like. But who's counting, right?! Anyway, I hope the month has been kind to you guys, and you're all ready to head into April with determination and positive thoughts.
GOALS:
A new month always brings new motivation and new goals for me, do any of you lovely readers feel like that too? It's that feeling of a fresh start, the same as starting a brand new blank notebook, or buying a new calender at the start of the year and filling it in with all your plans. It's a great feeling; it's possibility, and it's the best.
For April, my personal goals/aims/plans will be to finally determine proper 'days off' for myself, to keep up with regular yoga and exercise, start a bullet journal to keep me on track, and to start saving more money, to just help get my finances a little better.

Hello lovelies! Happy first of the month, this year is going too fast, blah blah blah and all that malarkey! I hope January treated you well, and 2016 is looking good already for you.
This month looks to be a fun one for me; I'm about to begin planning the very first event for #TheGirlGang (and my first event ever, eek!) which will be coming in the Summer. I'm booked in to get more tattoos FINALLY! And I have lots of lovely projects under way, which you'll hear more of very soon. So yeah, February looks good! As much as I love Winter, I'm also excited to start creeping closer to Spring too; it's been very hard photographing things with such dark days and no 'proper' lighting equipment! Hopefully I'll be buying myself some lighting soon though, I keep meaning to.

Last year, on New Years Eve 2014; I wrote this blog post. It was to my future self, writing down all my hopes and goals for 2015. I wanted to be able to compare one year one, and hopefully look back on a great year.
So how did I do?
The first goal I had, was to treat my body with more care. I honestly think I've done that this year. It's not been perfect, and I've still had periods where I wasn't kind to myself. But overall I think I've taken huge steps and I'm so happy about this.
Secondly, I wanted to challenge myself. Especially with my creativity and career. Ha. This one is amazing to be honest, because I simply hoped I'd be teaching myself new things and progressing in my personal time with creative things I loved. Little did I know this blogging/design/social media thing would lead me to full time self employment. I'm so fucking happy. I couldn't be more grateful for how well 2015 went. I am progressing all the time, and hopefully 2016 will see that continue.