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video: My 2025 Life & Writing Goals 📔🖊️ | planning for success

Grab your favorite beverage and join me for a chatty update on my goals and planners for 2025 😄

This year, I’m trying new things and re-establishing old habits to have a more productive writing schedule, improve health, and meet money goals.

My planners for 2025: HB90 quarterly and yearly goal planner, Inamio (Hobonichi dupe) weekly planner, and Commit30 for 30-day fitness goal planner.

My goals include:

Growing this channel hint hint
Publishing my debut novel/starting my self-publishing business (and all that comes with that)
Save twice the amount I saved in 2024
Increase strength and progressively overload
Weekly Pilates practice
30 days of Yoga in January (and regular yoga for mobility support)
Less dining out, more cooking at home/regular meal prep for my health and wallet
Setting the foundation for future home ownership

video: My No/Low Buy Plan Goals and Intentions for 2024

This year, I’m committing to re-evaluating my relationship with money through a targeted, intentional no/low buy plan. In this video, I share my why, my past failures, current goals, biggest spending triggers, and how I plan to succeed and hold myself accountable through monthly check-ins. A few vulnerable reflections on my background and growing up poor, and how this has led to my current anxieties about money.

Follow along on the channel for more.

life: January – month in review

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Plans were made, habits were started, and more tarot cards were read.

Some good things:

Finished Draft 1 of the secret angst project.
Completed all 30 days of YWA’s Home yoga program.
Started decluttering the stuff that’s been taking over my home for the last year or so.
Read some good books. (video coming this week)
Limited my coffee intake and stayed within budget (for lattes).

Some challenges:

Grumpy face kitty had to go to the vet. Lots of trauma for all. She’s ok though; have to monitor her bladder sitch and feed her a vet diet (I have thoughts, but not going to challenge this).

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