With 2021 around the corner and me being on my holiday break from work, I’ve finally taken the time to map out my goals for the new year and now, I’m here to share them with you!

I have a pretty lengthy list of goals, but a lot of them don’t have a solid end goal or point. Most of them are just activities or things I want to spend time working on throughout the year. Anyways, before getting into my goals, let’s chat about some tips for creating and achieving your goals.

5 tips for achieving your goals.

1. Create S.M.A.R.T goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant & Time-Based)
2. Make sure your goals reflect your intentions for the year (for example, my main goal is to grow my freelancing business so a lot of my goals are continuing to study social media marketing, etc on my own time, develop a marketing plan for my business, etc.)
3. Develop an actionable plan for each goal
4. Write them down
5. Revisit them at the end of every month

My goals for 2021.

Writing

• Finish writing The Obsidian Butterfly so it is ready for editing
• Keep up blog schedule of posting once a week to each blog
• Outline 2nd The Obsidian Butterfly novel

Freelancing

• Have freelancing become my part-time job (get between 20-25 hours of work)
• Create a social media/creative agency (make a website and new social media accounts)
• Continue learning about digital marketing through online courses
• Continue taking editing and writing classes (you can never stop improving!)

Reading

• Read 30 books
• Actually read all my assigned readings for school (I slacked a little last semester, I won’t lie)

Lifestyle

• Travel locally more (if things get better, obviously)
• Keep up my workout routine of going to the gym 2-3x per week
• Get back on track with school (last semester, I only took 2/5 classes so I want to make sure I am doing full semesters from now on)
• Prioritize my mental health (this means continuing counselling, focusing more on self-care, etc.)
• Save more money
• Develop a repeatable morning routine (it doesn’t have to be a crazy 1 hour routine, but it could just be reading first thing when I wake up)
• Spend less time online (since it’s my job to be online, I want to cut down my screen time when I’m not working and spend more time outside or reading)
• Meditate and journal almost every day

See? I have a pretty long list of goals for 2021 which I don’t always recommend. However, a lot of my goals are small things to implement into my days or weeks or even months. I am really excited to work towards achieving these goals because they help keep me on the path I want to be on for the next year. Like I said, I really want to focus on growing my freelancing business but I also have a lot of lifestyle goals because I definitely neglected that aspect of my life in 2020.

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