Are you planning to improve your life this year? Do some resolutions now and stick with them! Resolutions and checking them time to time during year have helped me to become more successful and achieve even more I probably would without them. The key is making some realistic goals and making sure you work every month to achieve them!

Last year I was dying with my schedules. I really wish 2018 will be a bit better for me. Those schedules were mostly because of two things: my school and the fact I had two jobs simultaneously. I know I’ll be busy this year too but I’m trying to plan things even better to make sure I can manage my school, work, blog, social, etc. Below you can read my goals for 2018.

Above: ready for a nightshift in the hospital

1. Studies & Work

– Pass all the medical courses

– Do at least 30 credits (15 US credits) of economics

– Do my best everyday at work

– Earn money for a) wedding and honeymoon, b) some investments and c) start saving for 2019 travels

– lmprove my Photoshop, Premiere and Lightroom skills

– Figure out some ideas what I’d love to do with my life in a long run

– Finish my smoothie book project (finally!)

Above: Homemade green smoothie bowl, yum!

2. Live Healthy & Look Good

– Exercise at least 3-5 times a week

– Try at least 3 new sports

– Eat more greens and learn new healthier recipes

– Keep drinking a lot of water

– Cook healthy food more often

– Get more fit body – more tight muscle with the same or little lighter weight

– Find time to relax every week

Above: Holiday Inn, Hamburg. Hotel life, here we come once again next year! ❤️

3. Travel & Explore

– Travel to at least 5 countries, of which to at least 3 new ones

– Have a mini holidays in Finland at least twice

– Do posts about Finland too

– do honeymoon travel planning + post about ideas and plans

+ If possible I’d like to participate in at least one blogger meeting / event

Above: tools of a blogger – Mac, camera, notebook, pencils and some cute items to make those photos cool

4. Improve My Social Media & Related

– Publish quest post(s) in this blog (read this if you’re interested in a collab!)

– Write at least 2 articles to somewhere else

– Do at least 5 sponsored posts

– Get more visits, visitors, likes and comments than last year

– Get back on track with Instagram and Blog’s Facebook

– Be more active in LinkedIn and keep it up to date

– Leave more comments to blogs and Instagram

– Figure out how to make a career around social and creativity

– Be more constant and do 2-4 posts every week – no more than that. My focus will be on quality and consistency

– Raise my domain authority (now: 26.1) and page authority (now: 38.1), do these with better SEO and commenting  blogs with higher ranks

– Add at least 100 new photos to Shutterstock

Above: The pupper man – next year I wish I could spend more time with him and my friends

5. Be Social

– Meet friends and do something fun as often as last year

– Network with some new people in areas I’m interested

– Use LinkedIn to learn from others and to discuss

– Find new people to follow and start reading books and listening Podcasts

– Organize something fun with friends at least 4 times this year (wine tastings, beach volley, board game nights, etc)

– Use more time with our puppy and go trying some new things like agility

Above: Finding some motivation from beautiful things like my MacBook Pro, Vallila’s design notebooks, high quality pens and some flowers.

What are your New Year’s Resolutions for 2018? How you’ll make your life even better this year? Did you find some motivation from this post?