Another year has come and gone, so crazy. It feels like yesterday that I was graduating from high school and setting out on this crazy road to become a photographer. I know lots of people choose the new year to set goals and expectations for the next year, well I try and use my birthday (It’s basically the new year anyways)! So here we go, there are a lot of goals and things I want to accomplish in my 23rd year of life!

” A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.” – Harvey Mackay

Personal Goals:

• Take time to do other things I love (not “work” related) I am leaning towards knitting, anyone have any other hobby suggestions?
• Workout five times a week – during wedding season this becomes very very difficult
• Work/Life balance.
• Create personal photo albums.
• Travel to Australia to see my dear friends who will be living there.
• Sleep more.
• Clear out the clutter.
• Shoot more photos in my personal life
• Cut my spending ( Starbucks you might be taking a hit…)
• Keep saving!
• Learn to not be so hard on myself.
• Do a DIY project once a month – my pinterest board is over flowing
• Drink more water
• Run another half marathon (I want to finish a full marathon before I’m 25)

Business Goals

• Finish my new website
• Hand out more business cards – I am AWFUL at this. I have had about 500 for the last 3 years. I maybe hand out 1 every six months
• Photograph a proposal! Do you know anyone planning on proposing soon?? Wouldn’t be exciting to secretly catch it on camera??
• Update blog twice three times a week
• Keep expenses updated… I may be 5 months behind from last year..
• Shoot one destination wedding Mexico next January for a dear friends wedding. Somewhere in Europe would be amazing.
• Continue to learn
• Either do a workshop or mentor-ship
• Experiment more while shooting, don’t be afraid to fail occasionally
• Book 14 weddings in 2014
• Book 23 weddings for 2015
• Shoot more film (the above photos are all personal film shots)
• Organize one styled shoot, like this one
• Get two weddings published
• Set times to check emails, it is not necessary to check emails every 20 minutes.
• Find more hidden photo shoot locations in Edmonton

I am sure I will add onto these lists as time goes on. Here is to a new year with tons of amazing weddings, clients and new adventures ahead!