Let's Talk About What I Want To Achieve This Year

Hey everyone! 

Welcome to a brand new post! Due to it being 2018, I thought that it would be a good thing to talk about the things that I want to achieve within the year. 

A light golden firework thats exploded into a mainly black sky with spots of bright gold next to the fireworks. 

I'm calling the things that I want to have done by the end of the year 'achievements/things I want to achieve' due to the word goals. Goals gets rammed down everyone's throats at this time of year and I hate it. Goals seems like you're looking through the world via rose tinted glasses and always reminds me of Sims. Goals also end up being forgotten about within two hours of setting them... 

Work On My Blog

This sounds like an obvious one due to me working on my blog all year but I actually want to create content this year. I want to also write on other people's blogs more often as I don't do that very often. I also want to achieve more views as I'm near to a milestone and I want to achieve it this year. 

Say No More Often 

Okay, so most of you will think well you say no at some point, right? I do but if you ask me to help out with something or such forth, then I will drop all plans to help out. I also want to say no to some opportunities which sounds absurd but I want to have some me time. The only me time that I really had last year was mainly sleeping and enjoying Lush products which is lovely but i need to relax a little bit more. 

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Stop Saying Sorry

This is more a case of my anxiety, but if you know me well then you will know that I say sorry to anything and everything including chairs and lamp posts so I am going to ensure that I stop saying sorry as much and just mumble water off a ducks back and keep on walking. It's easier and I'll slowly stop worrying about what people are thinking. 

Go On More Adventures 

I think this is something I want to achieve due to university. Not to go into much detail, but it seems like university is nothing like what I was expecting and due to having ,my own flat, I've become a hermit so I want to ensure that I go on more adventures whether thats to a completely new city or country or just down the road and back. 

Improve On My Photography Skills 

Due to writing blog posts, going to blogging events and having my camera with me most of the time, I will hopefully improve on my photography skills mainly via experimenting with my camera and just taking photos more often. 

Do you plan on achieving anything this year? Let me know down below! 

Thanks for reading this inspiring blog post. I hope that your 2018 is amazing and that you come back next time for another blog post. 

Thanks for reading! 

Jamie x

Jamie Sowden Is Going Through Some Changes

Hey! 

Welcome to a brand new blog post! 

A large silver Macbook with black keys and a white xcreen on a rectangular light wood table with two white hands on the keys of the laptop with a large green plant in a light brown plant pot on a bright background. 

This shall be a pretty short post but as you can tell via the title, this blog will be going through various changes and as the current blog template hasn't been working out for myself or the blog for a while/ I've decided that it would be best to change it to a simple template until I find one that fits with the blog and myself. 

The latest this change shall be is by the 8th of January. I shall still be uploading content so don't worry about getting your fix of rambly yet great blog posts/ 

I hope that you're having a great week! 

Thanks for reading this blog post! 
Jamie x 

My Resolutions For 2016

Meow, so as 2016 is coming around the corner, I thought that it would be a good idea to write what I want to improve on and stuff within 2016 therefore I can get to end of 2016 and look back on this blog post and see if I have done any of the things that I want to do. I feel like that is influenced by Bridget Jones which I normally watch every New Years'. I think that it's best if I just put them in a bullet point list and explain what I mean by each one so here is my resolutions for 2016.

Bridget is the face of New Years resolutions.
If you have watched the infamous films then you definitely should know this.

• Sort my mental health out.
  As you all probably know, I have anxiety attacks and other things quite often but I have never actually seen a doctor about it mainly because well waiting for the doctor's makes me anxious which means that I don't want to go in. Honestly, the last time that I actually tried to go to the doctors, I kind of ran out of the doctors and I've never been since.
  
• Lactose Intolerance
  I have realised via many different ways that my body doesn't agree with lactose which is the sugar found in dairy products. I don't really take full notice of this sometimes as most of my favourite things contain lactose in somehow and I've not been strict and ended up doing the whole 'ah well I'll live with the consequences when they happen' sort of thing so I would like to actually cut down on my lactose intake and hopefully replace it with things that my stomach can handle such as the various lactose free milks.

• Laptop
  
  So I got given a laptop from my high school earlier this year due to many reasons and basically since I got it, the mouse has stalled, the laptop has stalled and other things have happened and I have to shut the lid to get them to not do it for five or so minutes which is very annoying when you're trying to look at something such as a link for a blog post and then trying to get the mouse to click back onto the post that you're writing. I haven't had time to send it back to Currys/PC World which I need to do asap.

• Don't give a shit!
  I care about a lot which I need to stop doing. I just need to relax and be how I want to be and not care about what others think a lot. If I want to write a post about something weird then I should do it and if I want to turn up to an event with my hair scraped up in pj's then I should do it. I care a lot about what people will think when I do certain things and I shouldn't to be really honest. If I want to dye my hair bright blue with several other colours within my hair then I should just do it, I did it last year with getting piercings and I don't regret that at all so I should not give a shit a lot more often.

• Sort out my blog a bit.
  I love my blog. It's kind of my baby as I've put a lot of effort and time into it. I just think that it can do with a few improvements such as doing up the layout. Doing more series. Being consistent with said series. I want to finally crack on with my food series, I want to do more beauty posts as I love beauty. I want to do more fashion posts because I love fashion. I just want my blog to be perfect in my own eyes which may mean a bit of improvement...

• Work with more brands.
  
  I love getting perks like any other blogger does. I love it especially when it's a random package and you weren't expecting it to come through the post... This happens a lot with packages from Urika/Lush PR and I love it! I love learning about a brands ethos and why the brand was created and what they want to tell their audience and I love putting that into my own words and I love finding out about a brands product and trying the products out. It may be a brand that I've never heard of but normally I end up loving them and I love telling you guys what I love about said product/brand. I mean I've loved Alpro Soya for so long and I got to work with them this year which was amazing.

• Figure out my future
  I'm at college and any free time I have ends up being spent on blogging and any other time is spent on replying to emails and relaxing but with going to college, I'm meant to have some clue what I want to do after and I slightly don't. I think I want to do Media as it will improve my skills that I've learnt via blogging and such and hopefully create a job that way which may end up in something to do with Social Media, PR, Marketing etc but that may mean going to university and I'm not sure if I want to go to Uni or not yet.

There is probably more resolutiona brewing such as making all that Smashed Avocado on Toast (inside joke to most bloggers even though Nigella does make a good one) and other things but those are the main ones that I want to try and achieve throughout 2016. 

Have you got any resolutions for the new year? Let me know by commenting down below. I hope that you have enjoyed this post and I hope that you have a great New Years Eve and that you don't forget to let your inner Patsy Stone and Edina Monsoon to come out and have a good time. I hope to see you next time for another blog post! 

Meow!
Jamie x