Apologies & Goals for 2016

Hello everyone! I hope you have all been keeping well. Did you have a lovely Christmas? Mine was perfect! It's my favourite time of the year so I do just cherish every moment. How fast has it gone though? I feel like I've not even had chance to blink and I'm already prepping to go back to work on Monday! 

Speaking of working this is a good lead to my apologies to you all. Before I start going all cliche and soppy... hopefully not too soppy, i'll try and keep it minimal, I just wanted to apologise for my absence not only on my blog but on social media in general. The end of 2015 was so mad busy it was unbelievable. I think this is why I feel that everything has just flown by and I've not had chance to stop and think never mind plan decent content to put out. I know people use work as an excuse and sometimes that excuse doesn't cut it but with my office moving and working so hard to get everything in the new office organised etc, to say it has been difficult is an under statement! My free time has been totally taken up by trying to keep my social life on track and sleeping! So I do apologise to my lovely readers BUT it's now a new year and I'm feeling more motivated than ever to get my content up to scratch. Which nicely leads on to my next point - 5 things I would like to achieve this year. 
So I know 5 things doesn't seem like that much but I'm the kind of person that doesn't really tend to make goals, I just tend to take things as they come and have one thing at a time that I am working towards. Funnily enough, one of my targets this year is to aim higher so I feel that for me working towards 5 goals is a step in the right direction! 
1. Create a working blogging schedule  I didn't want to just put 'blog more' as I feel that everyone who struggles to find the time anyway would want to achieve to blog more. Since starting my blog I just intended it to be a hobby when I got the time to put content out. However, now I have a few readers and I'm excited to get more and more content out which means a more structured schedule will really help me to plan my posts and ensure the content I create is the best it can be. I'm looking to treat myself to one of these baby's from The Bloggers Planner

2. Star my career journey Those who know me know that I didn't go to university or complete college I started working at 16 literally not having any clue what so ever what I wanted to do or where my skills were. It has taken me 5 years to finally figure out what on earth I want to do with my life. This is actually a really exciting goal this year as it will either mean that I will become happier in my current company, or I will be starting a new job (which is easier said than done I am well aware of this!). Either way it is so important to me this year that I get on the right track to achieving my career goals and to do that I have to get started somewhere so 2016 is that start. Wish me luck! This time next year I could be writing to you from my pent house in London... Or not, a girl can dream. 
3. Get my skin under control  I struggle on a daily basis with acne. I go through various pain/break out phases. Don't get me wrong I do have a good skin care routine that does help to keep it sort of under control. What I really mean by this goal is to see a specialist. I was referred to a dermatologist once when I was a teenager who wasn't very helpful at all at the point in my life. With this I have been meaning for a while now to check myself in with a private dermatologist to help me understand more about my condition and to really get some better treatment. I have lived with it long enough now just using prescribed treatment, all of which has only worked in periods at a time. 
4.  Improve my photography  Following on from my blogging schedule goal: A good blog comes with great photographs. Therefore I am going to make it an aim of mine to get better. I'm probably going to invest in a better camera but until I get a good pay packet to allow me to do that, I''m going to have to stick with the one that I have. Just because it's not an amazing camera though doesn't mean that I can't take some better pictures. I would like to attend a night class or something to this effect but as I struggle with managing my time at the moment, I think i'm going to make a start on some self teach books for the time being! I'm excited to see the results to be honest so lets see how this goes! 
5. Travel more Basically my number one life goal is to travel. This comes from my mum who has always talked about how much she wanted to go travelling or places she would love to visit but life has run away with her and she never got the time to visit all of these places. Not saying that she never will she still has a good life left in her! However I'm just so worried of not getting the time to see the places that I want to before I settle down. I'm not talking about going round the world this year but to start with there is so much of Britain that i've not even seen yet and Europe. So instead of going on a holiday I would prefer to do some travelling even if just to start with it's just around Britain. It's a start to my adventure that I'm so desperate to make. 
So there you have it. My 5 aims for 2016. I'm looking forward to coming back to this post at the end of the year to see how I got on with them. What are you goals for this year? I would love to hear what you're aiming to achieve, let me know in the comments! 
Until next time my lovelies,