Goals for 2024 and reflecting upon 2023

2024 is the year I'm focusing on myself. My happiness, wellbeing and putting myself first. For so long I 

have focused on other people and making sure they are happy, and neglecting myself. Now that I am a 

parent I have realised how important it is to make sure that I'm ok and feel like the best version of myself, 

so I can be the best mom to my son. Also being a recently single mom, has made me reflect on how much 

time and effort I put into other people. 2023 wasn't the year I was expecting at all. I had my baby 8 weeks 

early, struggled with postpartum, battled with toxicity and became a single mom, amongst other personal 

struggles. It gave me the greatest gift but wasn't the year I set out hoping for. 

REFLECTING UPON 2023

Every year I set a list of goals and each year they become more realistic, which I like as I know I can 

achieve them. Read my hopes for 2023 here. Out of the 4 goals I featured in that post I can confidently say 

that I achieved 3 of them. A goal which I've wanted to achieve for the last few years is to read more, and 

up until December I wasn't doing that. I read 2 books at the beginning of the year, however in December I 

discover smutty spicy romance books and fell in love. I read 12 books in December and 14 total for the 

year. This year I'm hoping for 24 books which averages to 2 books a month. 

I would definitely say that I stopped buying recklessly, even if it didn't seem like it (especially with my 

TikTok shop purchases). Last year if I wanted something I would often leave it in my basket or Wishlist 

for a few days before purchasing it and if I was still wanting it a few days later then I would go ahead and 

buy them. This helped a lot as when I came back to them, there were things I knew I wouldn't use and 

would be wasting money. Having a baby definitely helped with this too, as you can't be spending 

recklessly as they become the new priority! 

Although I didn't get to do everything I wanted to with my son last year we still made the best memories 

and achieved a lot of first like; Easter, Summer, Christmas and milestones such as weaning and rolling 

over! Seeing him grow over the year and his personality develop has been the biggest blessing. 

The only goal I didn't achieve was rekindling my love for blogging. There were several weeks I missed 

because I had no energy or inspiration to write and take photos. This is something I want to focus on this 

year, especially as it's my 10 year anniversary of blogging in July. I now have time alone on the weekends 

to focus on taking photos and evenings to write, which will help significantly compared to last year.

GOALS FOR 2024

My goals for this year are mainly focused around bettering myself and focusing on self care 

along with taking advantage of each moment to make sure my son has a great year.

My number one goal is to take Codey on his first holiday. Unfortunately there were a lot of factors as to 

why we couldn't take him on holiday last year, but it's definitely something I want to do this year. I grew 

up going to caravan parks for the week or long weekends and had some of the best times, and that is 

something I'd love Codey to experience, even if he won't be able to remember it yet!

In terms of self care I want to read more, get back to pampering myself, have some more tattoos and 

piercings and even fall in love with watching films again as that is something I don't get to do a lot. I've 

also put blogging in with self care as it's a hobby I do for myself and something that I enjoy, and despite 

neglecting it slightly over the last few years, I still really love doing it.

This Summer I will be moving house and I want to spend time making that into a home and doing it up 

exactly how I imagine. I have already started looking up inspiration on Pinterest and will slowly be 

making purchases in the upcoming months to spread the costs! I don't know where I'm moving yet which 

does make this a little difficult but I cannot wait to have a house with a garden in time for the hot weather.

In 2024 I want to be open to doing more things. From taking Codey to new classes, meeting new friends, 

catching up with old friends and even exploring being open to dating again. Dating again is something 

I'm in no rush to do but I love love and is something that I don't want to neglect myself from as it's healthy 

to date and meet new people. I've never dated as a parent so I'm a little apprehensive, but is a goal I'm 

looking forward to achieving at some point this year. 

What are your goals for 2024?

xoxo

Lea-Mai