Summer 2017 Goals, Aspirations, and a Bunch Of Random Thoughts

My last ‘real’ day of school was technically yesterday but I still have a week left of study circles and such, therefore, my workload is officially at a standstill until junior year rolls around this fall. With this change in seasons, both literally and metaphorically I decided it was time to sit down and write out my goals, aspirations, and so on.

I’m going to guess that this post is going to be a bit longer than I intended; just know that I am a hugely visual person. Writing my thoughts out and being able to see them in front of me works wonders for me personally. So this post is more for me than anyone else.

Lately, I have been crying out to the Lord, asking him to guide me, carry me, lead me to greater things. In my personal life, in my faith, but mostly in my blogging. Through all the successes that I hope to reach this summer, through the growth that I know I will have, I know that the Lord is my fortune and that I am fruitful from His words.

Therefore, my first goal is to just work so hard, in blogging especially. As I look back at my blog, I realize I have achieved wonderful things. I have almost 2,000 people following me along this journey, 100,000 page views, and friendships I never could have dreamed of from my very own corner of the Internet. And I should be so darn proud of that. I want to appreciate not my numbers but the people who make up those numbers and the hard work that got me here but I also do not want to settle. I want to work that much harder so I can be great so I can thrive so I can feel a sense of pride in my chest even more so than I do right now.

Alright here’s a more precise version of the goals-

• I want to increase my readership to 2,000 WordPress Followers (current tally- 1,695)
•  I want to finally step up my Instagram game. Post more, engage more, and comment more, + get my following to 2,750 Instagram Followers (current tally- 2,196)
• Start finding smaller YouTubers to support and actually begin engaging + now I’ll finally have time to watch all my subscriptions, and reach 200 YouTube Subscribers (current tally- 122)
• Start a comment pod! I am already in a couple of these but would love to start one of my own, adding girls that are close in age with me to really get my engagement rolling and to discover even more bloggers to support.
• I want to switch my Instagram over to a ‘blogger’ and set up a Facebook Page for my blog! This will allow me to track engagement on my pictures and increase my blogging page views. Plus, I’ll finally be able to start engaging in the blogger pods I am a part of on Facebook.
• All bloggers talk about how awesome Pinterest is for views and relationships. Ideally, I will begin to use my Pinterest more for blogging as well as my personal pins and outfit swooning. I suppose I’ll even try to reach 400 followers! (current tally: 282 followers)
• Take care of any and all blog maintenance. (ie. giving the blog a facelift, making sure all links work, basically all the tedious nits and bits.)
• Work with a few companies that I truly love and really promote their products in the best and most professional way possible.
• Post every day in the month of August???!! Not sure how this one will go over but as of right now I am hoping to make this work!
• Create a media kit.

Okay, now that the endless list of things I want to accomplish has reached its end, we can chat about some other things. I promise I do not plan on spending my whole summer blogging, just 99% of it, heehe (do what you love, am I right??!)

Here are some random things that aren’t necessarily on my bucket list or whatever…

• Learn to sew!! And not just some boring ole pillow case, a real clothing piece that I could actually wear outside my house. Thinking big but I already have the resources to begin.
• Do a DIY! I’m not exactly sure what kind of DIY yet, but I feel like that would be fun for my sister and me when we’re sitting around the house with nothing to do.
• I want to declutter and really clean my room at one point. I mean like move the furniture to get every stinking dust bunny, kind of clean. Like the real deal. And of course, finally get rid of that tank top that I wore four years ago but am convinced I will need/wear again one day.
• Get better at using my camera WITH someone. This way I know how to control the camera and so does whoever is taking my pictures for this site. This is technically another thing to help my blog succeed.
• Get in shape so I’m not dying on the first day of practice.
• Figure out some college visits / try to figure out what I want to do in the future???
• Last but most definitely not least, try to make some money! Saving for college is real life, folks and ya girl has got to start getting more serious about it. Although I cannot necessarily get a job because of how hectic cheer makes my life, I’m going to try to babysit more, sell some more clothes, etc. 80% to savings and 20% to my pocket for the most rad back to school wardrobe ever!!!

Oh, and I, of course, want to make some new friends / hang with my friends and be a normal teenager.

So, I’m 99.9% positive that nobody has read this far or if they did, was not even remotely interested in what I had to say but this post was basically just a bunch of word vomit and thoughts I have been having for the last few weeks. I just feel so motivated and hungry for success in every aspect of my life and I want to take advantage of that while I can this summer and just create a McKenzie that I love so very much. I want to be the McKenzie who I look back at in the mirror and am so very proud of and love with every inch of my heart.

This summer I want to stop wanting for things and to start working towards them so that they are no longer my dreams, they are the reality.

What do you want to do this Summer?! Let me know in the comments below; I would love to hear from you! Have the best day ever, I love you all bunches! With a whole lot of love, McKenz

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