2017 a year of goals and aspirations.

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and new year, I went up to Birmingham to see my family again which was so fun and relaxing and for new year, we had some friends over to our flat and completely chilled out. It was probably one of my favourite New years, mainly because there wasn't any faffing about and spending money left right and centre. Lets be honest, 2016 wasn't exactly the best!

After an expensive December though, my wallet is feeling sad and my belly is feeling rather 'juicy' hahaha. So after much reflecting and a good ol' break from the pressures of blogging and my studies at university, it's time to lay down my 2017 resolutions, the goals I want to achieve and my 2017 dreams.

Spend less money

So my student loan is rather pitiful. It just about covers my rent so the money I earn from working on Saturdays contributes to my living costs. I don't buy a lot of things but there are things I can definitely cut down on spending, like new cushions for my flat etc, no matter how nice they look. 

Eat better

I know this is super boring and clique, but December.. you always eat so much crap. I'm not saying I'm going to the gym and trying to lose weight, I just want to start eating better meals again. I've been eating way too many snacks and not eating proper good meals. So I'm really looking forward to that.

University

If you've been a reader for a while, you will know that last year I actually dropped out of final year university, it was a tough decision and you can read all about my experience in another blog post that I posted.  (Read "why I dropped out of my final year at university") It was hard watching all my friends graduate without me, but this is my year to finally achieve my graduation on my own. It's a huge deal for me and I can't wait to complete it.

A new wardrobe

Something I've been doing for a little while now, is buying more neutral coloured clothing. if you've seen my flat on my instagram you will see that I'm a huge lover of minimal layouts and it's sort of grown into my clothing choices too. One thing I really want to do this year, is donate my old clothes, things I've had for years and start over with a interchangeable more chic kind of wardrobe. Obviously I don't really have the budget for this as I'm trying to save haha, but we'll see how it goes. Abit at a time.

Blogging.

This year has been so amazing for my blogging, I sorted my blog layout out, got my photography style down, I've had some really cool opportunities and it's just been so much more fun and exciting. My boyfriends a photographer, so we go out on shoots together, spend time doing some photos and it's been nice to bond over something I love to do. I only really became super obsessed with blogging again around October time, being in my new home really helps. So I can only imagine what I could possibly achieve this year, it's also something I feel I can fit around uni life now unlike before when I was too stressed to either think about it.

I'm considering starting a blog schedule, but I'm going to use January to suss out what works best for me and my schedule with uni and everything like that. Blogging takes a lot of time, especially with marketing and self promotion, it's not the easiest thing to put into a schedule, so I'll keep everyone updated if it changes!

Have you posted about your 2017 goals? Leave them in the comments as I'd love to have a nosy!

Thanks for reading as always!

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Being realistic with yourself

Yesterday if you noticed I didn't post a post.. even though I'm doing blogtober. I was going to stay in and blog while my boyfriend and his friends went outing had fun, I had work the next morning so I thought it would be right to just stay in and cosy up.

But our friend came over and we were having a laugh and it was really fun and I can't remember the last time I was truly social. Being at uni and working and not seeing my boyfriend as much has really taken it's toll on me the last few weeks, I've been bored and honestly, I've been rather lonely lately.

I've been really focusing on my blog and trying to improve all my social channels and content and it's gotten some really amazing results but I don't really know if I can actually say I'm happy with my day to day life at the moment. You may of seen a few posts recently about just trying to better myself and be more proactive and I haven't really been focusing on that much.

This week I'm aiming to be more realistic with myself, set myself achievable targets, wether that be creating a post that helps me go out of the house or schedule time away from my blog to really focus on my university work.

One thing I have learnt over these last few weeks is my time management and just general planning and organisation and how I can go about changing this for the better.

It's exciting but it's also a step in the right direction, it's finding the balance between not putting all my eggs in one basket but also succeeding in lots of different things, uni, my life, blogging, finding a way that I can improve and enjoy all things instead of just one.

So I didn't post yesterday because I was out when I probably should've been in but I had fun and it just made me realise how much I had ignored everything else around me. I still want to take part in blogtober but I need to be more organised and not scared to do things.

Tomorrow I'll be creating a new schedule. A schedule for me. Let's see what happens!