What an incredible incredible incredible year 2019 was & of course this will always
be one of the most amazing and sweetest years for me because I married Brandon
my high school sweetheart and obviously that's such a big life thing and has
changed my life for the better so I'm so thankful for 2019 but happy 2020
everybody I cannot believe it's here it's a new decade a fresh start and
today I'm really excited to share with you some of my goals and resolutions for
2020 and then once I kind of share some different ideas and some things that are
on my heart for 2020 we are going to kind of walk through how I document my
goals and how I plan to make them come true and kind of how I put them into
action so I'm really excited it's gonna be just a fun little chat with you guys
and then we're gonna hopefully plan some new year resolutions and goals together
so if you want to do this alongside me you can grab a notebook or you can take
notes on your phone but if you're watching YouTube on your phone I don't
know you can figure it out but I just wanted to show you kind of what I'm
working with today and what I usually kind of have equipped with me when I'm
planning my goals for the new year and I have my phone because yesterday actually
was at the beach with my dad and Brandon we were visiting him in Sarasota and I
was feeling very inspired just sitting on the beach hearing the waves crash and
I started just like I was trying to read my book that I had from the library but
I couldn't focus my my heads were just in the clouds that I was just thinking
of all the things that I'm looking forward to in the new year and all the
things that I kind of want to tweak in my life or you know challenges and goals
I have so I started a big old list on my phone it's a lot of little things so I'm
gonna go through them quickly and then basically some of these are super super
super small little goals and then some really really big so after I go through
them I'll show you kind of how I sort them and I'm gonna prioritize the goals
so kind of all the big ones I'll have a dissection and then all of the like
little daily things I want to change will be in a different section so that's
kind of how I'm gonna organize them but I have my phone and then I have a note
just my little notepad and then I have some stickers for my calendar and then I
have this calendar a that I purchased from the dollar section at Target so it
was literally one dollar and I'm gonna put this on my desk and this is what I'm
actually gonna use for my YouTube videos so just kind of to plan that and then
I'll probably put like any trips on here too so because that's also helpful for
my work and YouTube schedule to kind of have like a month overview at my desk
and I can just easily glance over at fact and then I have my notebook and I
just wrote down some things on here and also when I go into organizing my goals
I organize them in three different sections so we have life goals work
goals and personal goals so when I say life goals that means for example buying
a house that would be a life goal or graduating college something like that
and then work would be you know your work career goals naturally and then
personal would be kind of like my faith or like growing my faith or growing
friendships or you know becoming more positive those personal things that's
kind of like internal and just you are in control of them so that's kind of how
I sort it all out and then I also wrote on this verse it's a very very popular
Bible verse but it's Jeremiah 29:11 and gives so pertinent to this video in this
new year so I wanted to share it in case you haven't heard it and it is for I
know the plans I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not to
harm you plans to give you hope and a future so I really pray that we can all
just be all expectant and hopeful for this new
here and of course it's gonna have its own challenges and it's gonna have
hardships like every year does but it'll be so full of beautiful and happy
moments so I hope we can pursue those moments and focus on those moments and
create those moments for each other and our loved ones and just make it the best
year yet so but further to let me just hop in and I'm gonna share some of my
goals so these are in no particular order we're gonna do that later in the
video so this is just me brainstorming yesterday when my heads were in the
clouds so we have get better at cooking for a big party so what I mean by this
is I love to cook you guys probably know that if you've been watching my channel
but I want to get better at cooking for more than like two or four people
because I feel very comfortable cooking for like me and Brandon but when I cook
for like multiple friends or couples or family and it's like six people are more
it's very overwhelming to me and I feel like my food doesn't taste as good you
know it's kind of like catering you know you have to be really skilled to be a
great caterer because you're cooking for the masses so I want to get butter out
cooking for big parties because I love hosting and I just want to feel more
confident in that and then I also wanted the homework cooking content which I'm
so so so excited about and it's gonna be called Alison's eats and I'll share more
about that in that coming year but basically I plan to post a cook with me
video every other week at least and it's gonna be like little segment called
Alison seats and I'll share healthy fun and easy recipes with you guys to
hopefully provide some yummy meal inspiration so we have that and then
another big one is getting baptized so I actually like this wasn't really on my
radar at all I'd never got baptized when I think I got baptized when I was like a
baby but I never got baptized after I was actually like a Christian and I got
saved and I gave myself to the Lord but I never really thought it was a big deal
to get baptized but upon researching it it's just thinking about it and praying
about it more I definitely do want to get baptized so I'll actually be doing
that this month which I'm really excited about and brandon has really encouraged
me and that to yourself that's super exciting Oh another thing kind of
faith-based is to pray before each video and like before I fill in each video and
I've done this in the past like a few times but I haven't been consistent but
I just want to like be intentional and make sure that every video that I am
creating and putting out into the world is positive and God honoring and just
leaves people feeling inspired and you know all the good things so I just want
to make sure I'm intentional and for me praying will help me be more intentional
with my content just make sure it's the best and most beneficial stuff for you
all okay um next one do yoga more consistently if you've been watching my
channel for a while you know I love yoga I love doing yoga with Adriene who's a
youtuber and she has tons of amazing lessons for free on YouTube so I want to
start during doing her lessons more consistently I do my living room like
it's the most ideal work house situation but yeah I want to start doing those I
haven't set a number of dates that I probably should but probably four times
a week at least stuff we have to kind of define that more when we write it down
okay and then this is the big one buy a house and customize it to make it a home
so again if you have know me even watching my videos you know I was so
excited and still looking forward to the day that Brandon my husband and I
purchased our first home and I'm such a homebody and I love and the home decor
junkie like I love home stuff HGTV is my favorite Network channel I am just
obsessed so the thought of purchasing a home in 2020 gets me so giddy and so
excited so that's a big goal for us and then let's see read more books before
bed so I've been going to the library every night and we've been checking out
books which is so fun definite if that's a really good resolution inspo
if you don't have a library card already to go get yourself a library card it's
free will you pay taxes for the library so - all take advantage of it and then
you can check out books all the time in our County actually delivers library
books for free so you can go on their website deliver the books you want and
they will I mean order the books you want and they will deliver it to your
front door like that's incredible but basically I just want to start reading
more especially before bed because often times I'll be on my phone or all the
editing videos until like five minutes before we go to sleep but I'd rather
like kind of not be on a screen and just be reading a book in bed before we call
it a night so that's cool have game nights once a week so Brandon I we love
board games and games in general so we've been doing this ever since we got
married like a couple months after we got married we've been pretty good about
having a game night um at least once a week and that's been really great idea
to make like other couple friends and kind of build those relationships so we
want to continue doing that but like once a week
hard once a week not every other week anything like that every single week
because it makes us so happy and it's such a great way to bond with friends oh
and then another thing is to have a girls trip because this past year I had
like a bachelorette party before we got married but this past year like it's
been all about Brandon and I which I love because I'm in love with him
obviously but I think it's also important to um you know have that girl
time and have girls trips so now that we'll be married for a year next month I
think I want to start planning like a little girls getaway for my girlfriends
and I because it's really important to me
next one print more photos so I just want to have like more no scrapbook so
like actual tangible photographs because I take so many photos and thank goodness
we've been so blessed to go on so many beautiful trips this year and so I want
to print out those photos and have actual books for us to enjoy and flip
through you know and our family can look through them in
our future kids I think it's really really special to have those tangible
photos so that's another thing I want to get better at this year Oh another thing
I want to do is to make a new product for my merch brand magic Joelle's here I
have a really fun product idea and I really want to make it for you guys but
making product it's like not the easiest thing oh I need to do research and reach
out to other people but that's definitely a dream I have on my heart
this year it's definitely something that's so useful the merch idea I want
to use it myself so fingers crossed we can make that happen I know we can but
it's just a matter of prioritizing and making the time or it's dumb
we're gonna get it done 2020 and then another thing but I'm praying for it's
kind of like a a YouTube thing but I think it would be really cool to go on
brand trips cuz I love traveling so much so you know those cool brand trips you
do is go out and stuff that'd be really neat if I got to go on one myself that's
kind of always been a dream of mine because again I'm such a travel bug and
I love traveling said we really need to get that opportunity okay the next one
invests in current friendships and become more intentional and more
comfortable with friends because we have so many beautiful people in our life
right now and I love the people I love however all
of our friends I want to invest in the current and friends we have so that we
can kind of grow closer to them and kind of like build a community that's more
tight-knit if that makes sense so that's kind of something I want to work on and
then only a couple more there's so many oh my gosh you guys are like girl you're
crazy but lots of them are small and like you know I am such a goal-oriented
person so this is like my cup of tea learn more about coffee and cooking
because those are definitely two of my passions I love making coffee I love
drinking coffee and I love cooking and I love eating and so I just want to learn
more about the art of both of those things and
better at them and share that with you ball last one I want to be more
consistent and make a habit of answering my messages and dm's in comments like in
a certain amount of time like in the morning and at night because right now I
kind of just do it whenever but sometimes I'll like read them and then I
won't ever answer them or something like that so I just want to be more organized
and intentional intentional is though intentional I made up that word
intentional is the word of twenty years whenever me I just wanted me more
intentional because I really want to do that I love answering messages and
talking to you guys you guys are my friends like I really do believe that
but you know sometimes it can get a little overwhelming
or things can get lost if I'm just like looking at something real quick and then
I seen exhibiting now and then I can't find it again so I want to just be more
organized with that and allocate that exact time so that I'll make sure that
nothing falls through the cracks so those are my goals and intentions
I hope they provide a little bit of inspiration for you if you're looking
for some goals and intentions yourself so now that I have them all on my phone
I'll probably keep them on my phone just because I like to have them in multiple
places but I also want to write them down in my notebook and kind of
prioritize them so so kind of thinking through how I want to do it but I think
I'm going to prioritize it by life work personal so my three categories and then
at within those three categories I'm gonna prioritize it by the biggest ones
to the smallest ones so that I can kind of see the biggest ones first and then
the smallest ones like they'll be there too but obviously the biggest ones like
gotta be at the top so that's the plan and then after that I'm going to
actually type it up on my computer so I have my computer here also and I love
using Google Docs that's what I use because I have the app on my phone and I
can put it in my Google and it's just in the cloud and it's just
a good place for it to be I feel like so I'm gonna put it in there and that way
I'll have it like wherever I go and it'll be on the cloud so please save and
then I want to start planning my videos for January because I don't have any
plans except for the one I'm filming down so you gotta get planning and then
I can like bleed into the other month as well and if you guys want to follow
along with me I wrote down these four steps so the first step was reflect and
that was kind of just looking at last year so that was my video clips of the
beginning of this video and then the second one was brainstorming so that's
what I did at the beach yesterday just thinking of all the things I want to
accomplish and focus on and then third is organized and then fourth is
prioritize and plan so let's start organizing and writing down everything
in our nice little list
this is what it looks like so I have my three categories and the
name a bullet point list and I just organized it from like my first priority
to my bottom priority even though they all are important to me just about I
kind of see the most important ones burgers and it looks like thank you guys
so much for watching this video I really hope you enjoyed it and you found it
helpful and you feel inspired and refreshed and ready for 2020 I know
it'll be a beautiful year for all of us and I am so thankful to experience it
alongside you will thank you again for everything in all your love in 2019 and
the best is yet to come I'll see you soon bye
you