Naturalle Drea

We are really super close to 2025 and it is crazy how another year has flown by! This year was a lot but I’m thankful for all the good and bad that has happened and all the lessons learned (which I blogged about in the post before this one). Now is the time to recap the goals that I set for myself this year, which ones I accomplished, which ones I fell short on and ones I can still work on in the new year.

2024 Creator Goal Recap

Be Super Consistent With Pushing Out Content – I did the best I could with this one. It can be hard when you have multiple platforms that you post on. I was consistent as I could be because I really didn’t want to burn myself out and get too overwhelmed. The struggle with trying to be super consistent is having a schedule. I was still doing things last minute, struggling to keep up with a schedule when unexpected things happened and so on. I tried and that is a win in itself but now my focus on creating content has shifted. I’m trying to focus more on me (I’ll talk more about my 2025 goals in the next post) getting myself together and then factor in the creator piece.

Grow My Following – I am so happy I hit over 1K on Instagram! I made it to 360 on YouTube and 440 on TikTok. I’m proud of myself for hitting one of these goals and I did work to grow. I do want to continue growing and building my community and with the pending ban of TikTok, I’m worried about Instagram becoming over saturated and my content won’t be seen as much but we’ll see.

Pitch To Brands – Honestly did not work on this goal at all and not sure if I would do so in the future. I did have a few brand reach out to me and I am thankful for that. As my creator focus shifts, I still want to work with brands but I don’t know if I would pitch to them at all.

Start Monitizing – Yea….this didn’t happen at all and I’m actually okay with it. I’m feeling like it is harder now to be noticed and everything seems to be super instant now. Maybe it is just me and how I am currently viewing things but yea..I don’t monetizing as much as I wanted to in the future.

New Camera/Space For Filming – I didn’t budget for a new camera this year but next year I will budget and save for it. I did the research on the camera I wanted and hopefully I can get it sometime next year. I am still working on this space for filming. I’m still filming all videos in my bathroom and just need to figure out a dedicated space for myself.

2024 Personal Goal Recap

New Job – Well this didn’t happen lol. I’m thankful to still be employed and have income but I do need to start looking for something else. I don’t know what happened but I do have my current job descriptions (my title changed and I have 2 job titles and of course no extra money for it…fun) and just need to update my resume and start applying.

Heavy On The Budgeting/Savings Goals – I did start to budget in the last quarter of the year and will continue working on it next year. I didn’t hit the savings goal I set for myself and a little disappointed but I can work on it next year. Overall, I started with creating a budget and trying to save and will carry on into net year.

Taking Better Care Of Myself – There were different avenues that I wanted to take better care of myself and hit most of them this year. My big thing was getting to therapy and so glad I started this year. I do need to book another session soon but it really has been helpful. I’m proud of myself for getting around to my doctor appointments this year. It was alarming to find out about my elevated blood pressure and sugar levels. High blood pressure and diabetes do run in my family and I just don’t want to have those health issues moving forward. I’m glad it was caught now and I can work to not be on medication but it has been hard with changing my diet. I have been driving myself crazy looking at all the food labels and seeing how much salt is in things. I am actively working on this and thankful that I have a blood pressure machine to check it everyday.

I also wanted to focus on the self care piece that was put on the back burner. I did talk about self care a bit earlier this month where I am trying to define it better to fit my life now. I’ll continue working on this next year.

I have to say I did pretty well this year with my goals. At some point during the year, I forgot about the goals I set for myself lol but it is all good. I am looking forward to my 2025 goals which I’ll talk about in my next post. I hope that 2024 was good to you and 2025 is an even better year! We all deserve it.