It’s 2025 and the vision board is back for another year. I’m feeling optimistic about this year, maybe being 7 weeks in the year helps because I’ve made it through January (by the skin of my teeth) and plans are already in motion with this year set to a hella busy one. I think I’ll use the remainder of winter to get all the rest I can so I don’t keel over by mid-April.
BUT, the year is looking promising, I’m firmly on Team Get Out of Your Comfort Zone and Make The Damn Plans. I’ve already had one theatre trip and have another 3 plans for the next 2 weeks (which is 4 more visits than in the past 4 years combined), potentially 6 gigs (with more to go), a couple of holidays that need to be booked and living my life. I’m barely recognisable, apparently your ‘30’s are when you actually start living.
Although, with all of that being said, this vision board actually found life back in November, with the aim to not have a January to December goal list, instead it was things I wanted to achieve before my next birthday. Starting out from the moment the clock struck 00:00 on Wednesday 27th November 2024, my work begun to achieve what I could before 23:59 on Wednesday 26th November 2025.
The gist of this years vision board is health heavy, travel heavy, lots of reading, thriving and pushing myself to live more than I do already. I’ve been feeling really complacent lately but pushing myself a bit harder to do something is going to be the key to 2025.
Let’s see what I’ve put on the hopes and dream board then, eh?
Solo Travel
As a girl who wants to see the world, I haven’t actually been to all that many places, most holidays are spent visiting somewhere I’ve been with very few new places added to the mix. I’m super keen to visit new places alone, on my time, my itinerary, I can walk for hours on end if I wish, and immerse myself in different cultures. The only part now is to decide on my next place to go.
Work on skin
A work in progress for many years, before Christmas my skin reached a real low point for the first time in a few years and made me miserable, however I’ve started medication treatment again, I’m ensuring I drink plenty of water, and thankfully I’ve seen a massive improvement already just in the last couple of weeks. Now I want to work on a proper skin routine that works well for me and that I can stick to (without breaking the bank!)
Create content you love
After a content heavy year for me in 2024, a few works ago i made the decision to slow down on the content I share and spend more time on the content i want to create. I was very content posting photos of the same outfit about 5 times because I had so many photos and I wanted to keep consistent daily posting. I then realised how boring it was and same on everyone’s timelines. Whilst I may have swung the other way already and barely post twice a week, I’m working up to consistent posting but of content I truly love and enjoy making.
Reach 9 stone
This is a pretty personal one but something I’ve been working on the past few years. I’ve been a ‘dieter’ since way back in my teens, I yo-yo massively, cut everything our one month and binge terribly the next month, but I’ve been trying to build a healthier relationship with food which it’s a slow process but a very important one. So far, since January, I’ve been working hard on weight loss but in a healthy way and mixing it with a lot of exercise to help me achieve my goals without food depravation or a quick fix.
Tone body
Along with losing fatty weight, I’m also really keen to try toning my body, weight loss is all well and good but as you get older you lose some elasticity in your skin so I’m trying to tone as I go to help strengthen my core, legs and arms and hope it gives me more confidence and a lesser amount of loose skin. The difference I’m seeing in my stomach and my legs already is filling me with joy!
Driving lessons
One of the biggest things to me is the fact I’m 31 and still can’t drive. It’s a joke (and a hindrance) at work, something my mum references on long roadtrips when she’s tired and I can’t take over, and now I’m fed up of not having that skill (even though I’m truly terrified at the thought of it and have no intention of owning a car). Will this finally be the year I start my lessons?
Date
This is sort of like the above goal, 31 still without a relationship to my name (and zero dates for that matter). The older i get, the more it really bothers me, so I’m being more active on dating apps (god help me) and trying to make something happen.
Write more
I’ve been wanting to work on this for so long but often feel like I have nothing to write about, or can’t form the idea of what I want to write out. This year I’m going to tap away on my keyboard about nothing until the words put out and ideas flow because i really miss all the writing I used to do.
Work on style
My style is all over the show, I can’t decide if I want to be a soft, neutral girly with subdued tones, or I want to be dressed in a clash of colours and prints like a dopamine dressed girly. Somewhere in between is where I’m verging, a different person each day depending on her clothes. This year I want to refund that, even if it’s creating two separate wardrobes of these styles so I know where to gravitate and not end up mixing into a boring version. Style used the be the be all and end all of my life and I miss the fun I used to get from styling!
Girls trip
This is currently in the works, what was going to be a 4-person girls trip is at 3, maybe even 2, but regardless it’s going to be fun and I’m so excited for a week of sea, sun and sangria in the Spanish heat.
Read 30 books
The creasing challenge figure has increased by 10 books this year, I’m still 150% confident I’m smashing this again this year, currently I’ve nearly finished book #9 since the end of November (nearly 6 books this year so far) so 30 books seems like a breeze!
Paris trip
A solo Paris trip is very much on the cards for this year, I’m just debating when to visit my favourite city in the world. Visiting somewhere on my own is usually really daunting, but knowing Paris so well is making me feel more at peace and less terrified about braving a solo trip. I just want to wander, get lost and sip coffee with my notebook watching the world pass by. And visit the Emily in Paris filming locations too obvs.
Say yes
For years on end, my default response to plans has been ‘no, thanks’, however the last couple of years I’ve just said yes, gone along with things, been spontaneous and it’s made me so happy, year 32 has to be more of the same to see where yes takes me.
New tattoos
The fact I have had zero tattoos since I was 19 is truly miserable. This year I want matching ones with my bestie (and maybe my mum too?) and hopefully get the Manchester bee to celebrate living in the best city.
Less scrolling, more Pinterest
Serial scroller Sam, be gone! I’m sick to the back teeth of lying in bed the moment I way up or the dying minutes before I sleep, where my eyes are being forced open despite them watering profusely, all to keep scrolling through apps. It’s a waste of time, ruins my sleep and is truly mind numbing. Instead, the only app I can scroll on my commute to work or whilst I watch a bit of telly in the evenings, is Pinterest. It’s content heavy with inspiration for fashion, content creation, travel, home decor, you name it and Pinterest has it. If I’m going to scroll, it’s got to be for inspiration for all areas of my life, and hopefully give my backside a boot when I need it.
Job promotion
This might only be a short term one, but it’s going to happen imminently!
Do it for you
Make the plans, make the decisions, do more things that are for me and stop basing your life around being a people pleaser. It might sound a little bit awful, but I need to start being a little more selfish in some areas of my life and put myself first.
NY birthday trip
What started out as a silly conversation with my mum, turned into looking for package deals, flights, accommodation etc and I might actually be celebrating in one of my favourite cities this year! I’ve always wanted to see NYC inn the lead up to Christmas, and this year my birthday falls on thanksgiving which is something I’m thankful for. I so hope we manage to make this trip happen!
Work on beauty
I’m so mediocre when it comes to beauty, I know my basics in cosmetics, but I still don’t know how the heck to contour, how best to apply loose powder or how to best apply eye popping eye shadow, this has to be the year I figure it out, surely?
100 Etsy sales
Done and dusted! This was actually achieved mid-December and I’m so grateful for everyone who spend their hard earned cash buying my items, and I’m also super proud of myself for grafting too. Maybe my Etsy sales can reach 200 in November?
Blog more
Middle of February and I’ve already nailed this one, and that’s by sharing 3 posts (including this one), it’s madness that the last time I posted pre-this year was in 2022. I’ve missed this, and i can’t wait to get cracking with more content.
Solo Lisbon trip
The desperation to do this at the end of March is real, the plan to take in a Portugal international game whilst I’m there is all I want, however it’s not meant to be for me this international break. Instead, I’m hoping to go later in the year during an international break to cheer on Portugal (unless they play England, in that case, step aside Portugal!)
Journal
Sentimental Sam, that should be my moniker. I keep receipts, boarding passes, buy postcards from every place I visit, fill my phone with photos from trips, have an unhealthy obsession with stickers, and all of these things just get stuck in drawers to deal with another day. At the back end of last year I finally got started creating yearly month-by-month journals full of things I’ve done and plan to keep this going every year from now on. This year I want to complete my 2023, 2024 & 2025 journals.
More theatre
This was already smashed the first week of February by attending the theatre once, but will more trips planned over the next couple of weeks (including Dear Evan Hansen tomorrow night!), this is a bit old tick off the list.
Wooooow, this was a long one but it’ll be fun to look back on at the end of the year and see how I progress with some (or all) of these goals, and also see how completely off the mark I was with the time frame haha!
What’s on your vision board? Let’s keep boosting ourselves to achieve this year!
S xo
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