It's 2012! What will this year be for you?

Hey Everyone! It's been a long time since I have put up a blog! Sorry about that!

I have been putting together what this year will be for me. I have a few goals that I have set for myself and a few challenges. I would like to end 2012 knowing that I tried my best to accomplish these goals and that I made lots of effort to achieve them!

I thought I would share with you these goals and to have you all help keep me in check! I know a lot of you probably have the same ones so, feel free to message me for encouragement and advice.

Here they are:

1. I have a goal to be extremely frugal! This is going to be a challenge! We live in a very materialistic world and it has actually inspired me to be the opposite. This means a BUDGET, NOT EATING OUT, EITHER MAKING MY COSMETICS OR SCALING BACK FROM "HIGH-END" MAKEUP! I am sure with lots of research and the ability to make a lot of my own products that I can do this. (some helpful blogs will probably come out of this so stay posted)

2. Being more frugal will also help me live a healthy lifestyle. I know exactly what to do to be the fittest I can be that's not the challenge. The challenge is actually doing it and reaching my goal. So far, I have been doing really well. I knew this was going to be my goal so, I actually started early right after Christmas. I have everything I need to accomplish my fitness goals! I have no excuses!

3. I love my job! I really do! There is not a lot of people that can say they love what they do. That being said, I did sacrifice a steady income in a job that I hated to get here. (Another reason for the need to be frugal!) However, I know there are other ways to bring in an income, my goal is to be creative and motivated to do so. I want to do more freelance makeup for weddings and special events, this is the kind of makeup I enjoy doing with no pressure to sell something that I may or may not even believe in. I know God will provide, I just have to believe.

4. I am not the most organized person in the world, not even close. Now, when I am doing my best to be organized I do function so much better. My goal is to continue to do the work to keep my home in order to keep my sanity in check!

I think that these goals are a good start. I don't want to over do it and feel like a failure if I didn't achieve 20 different resolutions! I think that these 4 will help me be successful in all aspects of my life. I also decided not to put any resolutions about being more nice or honest, etc. I already am brutally honest and I think I am pretty nice unless I have been burned by you. I have no regrets about cutting those out of my life that I did in 2011, I did that for my sanity. Those that I kept in my life mean the most to me and have tremendous value in it!

Here's to a frugal, healthy, prosperous, organized 2012 and on!

Feel free to message me for advice, tips, check-ins, etc. I think that will help us all!

Peaces,
Ash