Hello reader,
I am really amped and excited for 2015! It’s a chance to make all my dreams and ideas
in my Big Black Book become a reality! Now, now, I hardly ever create a list of
New Year’s Resolutions because I never remember them (or selectively forget
them). If I have a New Year’s resolution, it’s relatively quite simple and
general. In fact, my New Year’s resolution for the previous year was to smile every
day because I didn’t smile a lot in 2013. Did I achieve it? You bet! It helped
because it made me look for an excuse to smile which meant I focused on
positive and things that made me happy. This year my New Year’s resolution is
to try my best, always. And with the goals I want to achieve this year, I’ll
really need to try my best!
This is the very first time I’m creating a list of goals I
want to achieve. I believe that written goals are important as they provide an
incentive for me to actively try and achieve them. Also, these goals will lead
me to be better than I was last year and one should always strive to be better!
Here are my goals for 2015 in no particular order.
·
Get more
clients for my design company, Allebasi Design and expand it. I’d love to
create a few jobs as well.
·
Double my
blog readership and get sponsors, also host a lot of giveaways! I’m by all
means an amateur when it comes to blogging but I’m learning everyday! I also
need to spend more time marketing and creating content which brings me to the
next goal…
·
Create a
schedule and stick to it! Oh schedules, I’m bad at those. I usually just
create a mental To-Do list and try my best to do everything on the list but I
need better time management, which means I’ll need to get those daily planners/calendars.
Woe for my desk space, haha!
·
Become healthier
and fitter. I would love to become fitter and stronger. I dislike working
out because it’s banal (seriously, who invented squats, sit ups and pull ups,
etc!?) unless it’s a fun work out like dancing, yoga or swimming. But hey, I’ve
been running regularly recently and I don’t hate it. I think it’s because I’m
back home and there is fresh air for miiiiles! I’ll however like to invest in
some gym equipment since I live rather far from the nearest gym. I’d love to
take up kickboxing. I’m sure I’ll have a lot of fun with that! In previous
years (before I left for college) I’d skate or rollerblade everyday and that
was always a fun work out for my legs and core! I’d also love to eat healthier
food. My family and I hardly
never eat out and most of our vegetables come from our garden (thanks
parents, for your love of gardening and ‘eating natural foods’!) I’m actually
going to join them in gardening soon. I’ll be in charge of the herb garden and
I’m quite excited for that, yay! More about eating healthily, I need to be more
aware of my diet. Last year there were two weeks were I was on a Paleo diet but
as the days went by I selectively forgot that I’m supposed to be on one! *sigh*
I tend to not be picky about the food I eat (because it’s food!) but I need to
because sometimes I eat a lot of sugar and my body doesn’t tolerate sugar well
which is the reason why I cut out sugar out of my tea. I need to cut out sugar
in other foods I eat but I can still eat chocolate. I refuse to give up on
chocolate. They can pry it from my dead, cold hands.
·
Create an
app! Something that is in my Big Black Book and something I’ve wanted to do
for two years now and it is actually something that I believe people will LOVE!
I just need a developer now because I suck at coding. I’m actually learning a more
coding through Codecademy to add to my very basic coding knowledge I learnt in
college. However, I’d love this app to be awesome and for it to be awesome I
need a developer.
·
Write a
book. *waggles eyebrows* This
has been on the cards for several years now and I’ve actually been researching
and developing a novel for a year and a half now. All I need to do now is to
write it and finish it! I have written a handful of short stories before (I
could even post one here if you guys would like that) and even have an
unfinished story I wrote for my friends’ pleasure. I should finish it, but I’m
my own worst critic so…
·
Create another
business venture. This has been something I’ve planned since early last
year. However, I do not want to be like those entrepreneurs who create and
create but are not able to maintain their businesses because of time constraints
and therefore run them to the ground. No worries though, I know exactly how I’m
going to manage them. It’s all about research, planning and dedication. With
that said, I need a team to work with me! Soon!
·
Improve
my cooking. I love trying new recipes and this year I’d love to create more
of those dishes with fancy names…and some dishes with hard to pronounc e names
haha!
·
Become
more social. No doubt this will be challenging as I’m a bit anti-social by
nature and I have a business to run but I need to go out more often and meet
new people. It might also be beneficial for me as it’ll allow me to network. I
need to meet up with more of my friends as well and have girls nights out or
pamper days.
·
Become a
better driver. I got my driver’s license last year in March but I need more
driving practice. I’m decent with automatic transmission but terrible with
manual transmission. If I want a part in the Fast 8 I reckon I gotta brush up
on my driving skills! I need to get over my anxiety of driving on public roads
(it’s bad) and be a great driver like my dad is and older brother was. Can’t
let my 12yr old nephew be a better driver than me. True story: he once drove me
to my friend’s place and he can hardly see over the dashboard!
· Travel. I really, really, really x100 want to travel. I feel as if my soul will never be complete until I have traveled to quite a lot of places. I have never been on a plane before and I'd like that to change this year. A friend and I have a list of places we'd love to visit and we're going to try and save enough money so we could go. First step: get a passport!
· Travel. I really, really, really x100 want to travel. I feel as if my soul will never be complete until I have traveled to quite a lot of places. I have never been on a plane before and I'd like that to change this year. A friend and I have a list of places we'd love to visit and we're going to try and save enough money so we could go. First step: get a passport!
·
Create more
art. By this I mean more personal art. Not something that other people have
told me to create. It’s easy to fall into a rut of only doing things you’ve
been told to do and none for your own creative expression and if this happens
to me, it’ll be a bad thing to happen to me creatively. However, to prevent
that I dedicate two months to embark on a personal project. For December and
this month I’m working on a Quote Series. I had a few friends of mine give me
original life quotes they live by and I’m illustrating A2 posters based on
them. I’m having a lot of fun working on them and I can’t wait to release them.
I’ll most likely sell them worldwide too! I want to do more ‘series’ projects
and this year I want to start filmmaking which would be whole new creative
journey for me but those scripts I have written need to come to life! I may
create a YouTube account for the films as well! Yay!
Whoa, okay. Maybe I should make ‘write shorter posts’ as a
goal for this year because I’m rather verbose with my blog posts. Forgive me, I’ll
try to work on that!
Do you have any goals for this year that you want to
achieve? Please let me know in the comments! I’d love to hear from you!
‘Til next time,
-Bella
