hello hello how are we doing happy new year i hope you had a nice and relaxed festive break
whatever it is you managed to get up to 2020 let's just say what a whirlwind i'm gonna attempt to
sort of summarize my 2020 but most of it is all a little bit of a blur as i'm sure a lot of yours is
but i'm hoping that 2021 brings some new positivity i'm gonna try and like
look at things a different way i'm definitely gonna appreciate the little things even more
and yeah i thought we'd just do a little yearly catch up it's a little bit of a
tradition on my channel and it's quite fun to see sort of how things grow and
whether i'm gonna reach any of these goals so i actually asked on instagram for some questions
and basically we're just gonna have a good old chin wag so if you haven't got yourself
a drink and a snack get one because it might be a bit of a long video firstly i actually have beside
me my vision board from 2020. so i think i made this over the festive period last year or like
2019 and i just thought we'd have a quick look at it and sort of see whether any of these things
have come true and i'm actually i'm not really upset by it i think i did quite well some things
haven't happened at all some things have definitely happened you've probably spotted it
but this one up here is the biggest one i am so so happy it happened a couple of weeks ago now so
if you follow me online anyway you probably know but we have officially hit 100 000 subscribers
i honestly cannot believe it you probably can't see but i actually photoshopped my own name onto
this photo of a silver play button so hopefully before long i'll be getting a real life one which
this has been my biggest goal since i started my channel so i just can't deal and i actually
did film a little clip of when we hit 100k so switch to that clip so hi i'm just recording
this clip barefaced completely and i'm also on instagram live at the same time my parents are
hovering near my office door because we are six away from a hundred thousand subscribers and it'd
be rude not to document it last time i looked at it about five ten minutes ago it was like 11 away
and then i've done a bit of work and all of a sudden it was six so i panicked and i've
plugged instagram live in and we're gonna just we're gonna just roll the camera and
see what happens it's team effort here and then when we get the plaque oh my god i'm two away
so excited ah i got it i got it i got it yay look at this look at this i'm gonna cover up my
um details but 100 000. look at that six digits yeah one hundred thousand and two
yay we need to do something fun
oh my god thank you so much everyone this is crazy i can't believe we've done it i can't believe
but yeah as i said in that clip thank you very very much i cannot believe it so then the next
goal i was really passionate about to get in 2020 was a house now i obviously don't have a house
i'm still in my parents house at the minute but plans are officially in place money has
been put down we're waiting on a phone call and your girl's very excited it's been years in the
making and you bet there's moving vlogs happening i'm gonna do like homeware hauls empty house tour
all that kind of thing and so far it's all set to happen in 2021 so hopefully it won't be too long
before i get to share this with you and actually on here i've covered some of the things up because
it was quite personal but on here if you can see i've got a little plan for what i want my
future office to look like i found these photos on instagram and yeah this is like my goal little
stock room style office thing how adorable so yeah happy about that one the next thing was exercise
kind of worked i did kickboxing for a little bit i've been doing yoga i definitely want to do yoga
more the next thing travel let's just forget about that one there's work which was kind of two things
so i've put up a list of brands that i'd love to work with i haven't got any of these so maybe i'll
put this on the board again next year basically i wrote squarespace cadburys adobe disney and ikea
so maybe in the near future i will be able to work with those brands i do have a list on my
phone of like dream brands so you know we can manifest them it's fine and then we've got work
so i actually put on here to get my work in little like independent stores and i didn't
do that for two reasons the main reason is that my perfectionism kind of ruins things
and i don't think i'm good enough ever i'm too scared to sort of like reach out to shops that do
that kind of thing and i hadn't then the pandemic happened so shops closed anyway and that was like
a perfect excuse for my perfectionist brain so i didn't pursue that one but that's fine and then
i just put soul & fire i wanted to sort of expand which we have i've now employed my mum which is so
exciting so yeah and then we've got family family is really important keeping everyone close by
obviously my favorite people ever and yeah and i think that's pretty decent to say what
a year we've sort of had i'm happy with that i'm definitely gonna make another vision board
for this year hopefully i can write travel on it and it actually happens i'm desperate
to get away but yeah so that is my 2020. it was definitely up and down i started the year like
motivated to go like most years start then as soon as lockdown hit i like tumbled into
probably what was depression i ended up back on my anxiety medicine and i've slowly sort
of been working myself back up when it was like that massive heat wave in march during
lockdown i literally spent like two weeks building jigsaw puzzles sitting in the shade in the garden
reading drawing and it was actually really therapeutic i couldn't function and yeah i'm sort
of building myself back up obviously i have low days but seeing the progress that i've made from
march to now it just sort of proves that you can sort of get through anything we've all got through
100% of our worst days so if we can do that we can definitely continue to do that anyway enough deep
chat so let's answer some questions how are you how was your 2020 we've covered that one it was a
whirlwind let's just say that but there's a lot of lows but also a lot of incredible highs which you
will learn about soon one of which is obviously the house situation goals for 2021 business and
personal so i've written things down so i didn't miss anything personal top of the list is house
i'm gathering furniture i'm slowly taking over my parents house i have mentioned this and i've been
doing a little bit of diy projects it's all very exciting it is kind of daunting because
obviously i'm self-employed and it's a whole new money situation that i've never had to deal with
before but yeah i'm very excited for the prospect of having my own place a bigger office just
my own place to call my own you know i'm very excited about that i also want this year to be
a year of travel whether that be abroad or not i have actually got a little like valentine's break
booked so fingers crossed that goes ahead and then if we can't go abroad i'm gonna try and book like
travel places in england i really want to go to liverpool i don't think i've ever been and i've
been told it's a really nice city so let me know where else i could go in england that would be
a nice little break the next one is give myself a break i've been slowly getting better i think
i try not to beat myself up if i don't get my like gargantuan to-do list done because i'm so bad at
like writing the longest unachievable to-do list and then beating myself up when i don't do it but
like i'm just setting myself up for failure so i'm gonna try my hardest to give myself a break
and that also kind of links into the next one which is like to calm my perfectionist nature i've
mentioned this a lot but i resist putting products out there and new ideas because i spend so long
just sitting on a finished design and picking it apart and most of the time there's actually not
much to pick apart it's just me being an idiot so i'm gonna try and calm my perfectionist nature i
guess that kind of links in with business too but in life things aren't always gonna go to plan and
it's okay i just need to chill and try not to stress so much and just enjoy the little things
that's definitely a motto for this year enjoy the little things and then finally i've written
more yoga because i actually started to do a 30 day yoga challenge on youtube and it was really
really nice it actually did turn into a little bit of a chore at the end of last year so i did kind
of stop it but i think i definitely got stronger and it was really nice calming like mindfulness
moment that i definitely needed because i just spend so much of my life staring at screens and
not being mindful in terms of business now i want to expand the business so i want more products
i've got a studio vlog coming where i'm showing you me ordering products and talking about new
ideas and i want you guys to get involved as much as possible so if you've got any products that
you'd like me to bring out something that you feel like the market needs then i will do my best let
me know and i'm also debating doing like digital products so whether that be on soul and fire or on
like alice thorpe i'm thinking maybe ebooks guides for business i get a lot of questions about like
working as a freelancer and there's only so many videos i can film videos aren't as easy to consume
as maybe downloading like a big pdf booklet that you can consume in your own time and revisit
so i'm thinking maybe something along those lines digital products i want to create myself
like a stable passive income stream that doesn't necessarily need 100 of my attention all the time
because otherwise i'm just going to overwork myself again and we all know what happens when
that happens so yeah i want to expand the business hopefully that'll mean i get to add more hours
onto my mum's shift so she currently works one day a week we want to try and get it to two days a
week so i want to obviously make that sustainable so hopefully with bringing out more products and
having more things happening my mama can come and work me for two days a week which is hopefully
gonna be happening and very exciting i'm gonna manifest it i definitely want to focus more on
influencer marketing and ads that's something i've never delved into from a business point of view
so even just gifting products out to influencers my friends things like that that's a great way of
getting exposure and again my perfectionist nature has sort of stopped me from doing that i've been
too scared i think my products aren't good enough and i almost feel like people will be like who
does she think she is sending me products like they're not even that good i don't know that's
just how my brain works but i'm gonna try my best to work on influencer marketing i'm gonna get my
mom watching some skillshare videos things like that and hopefully we can get working on that
and then ads as well so instagram ads facebook ads that's a whole whirlwind hopefully we can
address that we'll see then maybe another online course i have been in the talks to do another one
so possibly that maybe something a little bit more business related this time again freelance
life managing your time managing your workloads something along those lines again open to ideas
i want to create more in-house things so i've obviously got my big printer now i want to print
more greeting cards prints stickers i definitely want to use my cricut more i just really want
to make the most of what i've got and sort of set myself up for a solid hopefully good year
obviously the house situation makes me nervous because i need to now definitely earn a set
amount per month there's no like leeway really in a lot of things i've been very lucky being
able to live with my parents for this long with no major outgoings so there's a lot of pressure
but i'm trying to not be a perfectionist about it you know just keeping it real so yeah that's my
business and personal goals generally i want to be less of a perfectionist i want to make
more things but i want to do it in a way that is manageable and then the final question i got was
where do you see yourself in five years time and i haven't been able to answer this question very
well in the past couple of years i feel like i've answered this question every like new year's video
for the past few years and now i've come to the conclusion i'm definitely a family kind of girl
like yes i love doing my job and i love working but my ultimate goal is to have a family have a
settled life appreciate the little things be able to fund fun activities not worry about money too
much you know i want just like a happy simple life and i actually learned that right at the beginning
of 2020 because i went to see a psychic because i was feeling all lost and she literally said to
me you're a family girl and it was kind of like oh yeah i actually am in five years time i will
be 30 which is terrifying i swear i'm still 16 in my head so i'm thinking comfortable house
happy relationship maybe children on the way i don't know i might get to be like i'm too young
for kids i'm not too set on that age then i guess like traveling going on holiday being a bit more
free maybe i'll have a pet i really want a dog i also really want a cat actually i want a house
of animals however there's a bit of an issue i am kind of allergic to animals so we'll figure that
one out i think that's all i said yeah business with a steady income have some staff so i can
manage my workload i'd quite like to possibly look into having like an external office if so it's
like maybe actually get a studio that is not in my house that would be quite interesting but again
right now daunting scary we'll leave that for five years time because i feel like especially
when you've got kids and stuff it's gonna be super hard to kind of work and live in the same place
and i'll probably want the break at that point so maybe an external office that'd be quite cool and
obviously i want my family and everyone around me to be happy and healthy and i want to spend
as much time with my family as possible and i want to be less anti-social because 2020 has been the
year of me being the antisocial person that i am to be honest i guess that's it i've been rambling
for a while and i hope this video was kind of interesting i'd love to know what your goals are
for 2021 i want them to be personal goals and then also work business related goals if you're at uni
or if you're starting your career or progressing in your career let's start a conversation in the
comments and sort of motivate each other see where things are going to go and fingers crossed for a
good 20 21 even when the bad happens i'm going to try and look at it in a different light and
i'm going to try and bring like the positive out of even like tricky situations i feel like that's
probably the best way to deal with it or at least for me so yeah that's it thank you very much for
watching this video thanks again for supporting my channel thank you for 100 000 subscribers it
honestly blows my mind and i'll see you in the next video which will be a studio vlog bye for now