1 – Find peace within myself and love
myself more. I am a big believer that you can't be at peace or love
someone else until you do those things for yourself. I think that my
outside world feels tumultuous because my mind and soul feel like a
choppy ocean. This will probably be one of the harder goals to reach
but I am determined to reach it. And hold on to it with both hands. - I'm working on this, but I'm so much better than I was at this point last year! Finding peace within myself will always be a goal that I strive to achieve, but I will absolutely never, ever, stop trying.
2 – Find a job I love. This will
happen. I know it will. And I won't stop looking. And the job that
I'm meant to have will come just when it is supposed to. - Well, I started at the store on April 2nd (I think...it might have been the first...), while it is definitely NOT the place I will spend the rest of my working years, it has been just what I needed after the CU and a tumultuous year of unemployment.
3 – Get Scarlett Key and Little
Life of Mine to a place that I'm proud of and to a place that I want to
sponsor and do giveaways on other blogs that I love. This sounds like a
professional goal, but these things are so very much a part of me that
they needed a goal here too. - I DID THIS! haha, I sponsored Susannah's blog for a few months; I even did her large ad with a giveaway! Scarlett Key is there again for January and I couldn't be more pleased! I also was a part of Kaelah's handmade giveaway in December.
4 – Spend more time with my
friends. I am extremely susceptible to feeling lonely, this could be
stopped by actually making more of an effort to see my friends. I'm
also very unsure if I will continue living in Dayton – and if I move
over an hour away it will only get harder to see the people that I miss
now when they only live minutes away. - Well, I did move back to the farm. I get back to Dayton as often as I can, which is translating to about once a month or so. I've made some very dear friends at the store that I do spend some time with as well.
5 – Spend more time walking. I
don't want to set a goal to lose weight – a girl with a history of an
eating disorder shouldn't place too much emphasis on this – I merely
want to be more active. I have a treadmill for a reason. - I did this too! :) I got up to over five miles on the trails around Chilli, but then after I started at the store, this decreased dramatically! I have a few helpful plans/hints pinned to one of my Pinterest boards so I'm looking forward to continuing this again in 2013! I will say that I have lost roughly 30 pounds this year even without keeping up with the walking stuff!
6 – Actually get some face time with my dear bloggy friends. Camille & Haley, I'm looking at you! - I went to Jersey and spent a whole weekend running around with Camille! I honestly can't wait to visit more, and I really can't wait for her wedding to Shane that I better be invited to ;) I'm pretty sure I threaten to move there every few weeks haha
7 – Make peace with my sister. This is by far going to be the HARDEST thing to do. Just the idea scares me. - This I failed miserably at. I actually told my sister that I never wanted to speak to her ever again back in November...or was it October? I don't remember. While I am saddened that I will never know my niece, I know this is the way it should be. She and I are just not ever going to see eye to eye enough to warrant having such a negative relationship in our lives. I guess I have made peace with her, just not with her in my life, it is with her out of it.
8 – Stay up-to-date with my 12 in 12! I'm really looking forwards to this!!! - Another horrible failure! haha, I did only halfway good in January and then it all just went away when I started the process to move back to the farm in February/March.
And now, my professional goals:
1 – Add new products. - I did this! I have added daddy's pens/pencils, bookmarks, fabric headbands, etc. I also have a few things up my sleeve as well!
2 – Do something good with my
store. - This I didn't do as good on. I didn't do a "percentage of proceeds" kind of thing, but I did start doing shows at events that support my local communities. More than one of the shows I did this year had the booth fees go to things I'm passionate about in my communities. That makes me a happy shop owner.
3 -- Get my blog and Scarlett Key to a point where I can confidently sponsor blogs like Camille's or Susannah's or Kaelah's. - As stated above, I did this! Go me!
3 -- Get my blog and Scarlett Key to a point where I can confidently sponsor blogs like Camille's or Susannah's or Kaelah's. - As stated above, I did this! Go me!
As for 2013? All I'm going to say is: MORE OF THE SAME. More confidence building, more exercising, more friend time, just more good stuff. I got this. We all do.
