Welcome to Weekly Wishes, a personal goal setting community where you can share your upcoming dreams and hold yourself accountable to achieve them. I’d love for you to join us and add a link to your own goal-oriented blog post! It’s a great way to make new friends from around the world and gain some motivation to achieve your weekly aspirations.
Happy Monday everyone! Bah! February already? As much as January seemed to fly by, when I sit back and reflect on everything that happened, it was a very full month. I kept busy with lots of work — it was my busiest and most profitable month in business to date. (Yay!). I also finally added five new contributors to TNC and I’m currently working on adding a virtual assistant to the team. Woohoo! Things have been pretty busy and exciting lately. I’m just tryin’ to keep up! 🙂
This past weekend, Paul and I also went to San Francisco, which was a great way to end the month. We ate a ton of food, explored beautiful places, and met up with some of our friends. All in all, it was a success. 🙂 Can’t wait for our next trip! (By the way, aren’t the colorful buildings in SF amazeballs? I don’t think I’ve ever used the word “amazeballs,” but it feels appropriate right now). 😉
Goals for February
- Hire a virtual assistant! This was one of my goals last week, but there ended up being a lot more interest than I expected (woo!!), so it’s taking me a bit longer to hire someone. Hopefully I can finish that up this week. Can’t wait!!
- Finish designing a new layout for TNC. This is a big goal of mine! I work as a graphic/web designer, and have done most of the design and coding for this site since it began. But I’d really love to change up the layout to be more “magazine” style (à la The Every Girl), which is more than my coding skills can handle. I’ve been chatting with some developers who I think are perfect for the job, but now I just need to design all the elements for the site so they can get it coded in. Any features you’d love to see?
- Move to LA! Hooooly moly. Is it scary that I’m set to move in exactly three weeks but haven’t found an apartment yet? It’s kind of difficult, since most places won’t wait that long for you to move in. I’m confident though! And after visiting SF this weekend, I’m excited to move out of Suburbia and into a more creative, bustling city.
- Celebrate TNC’s 2nd birthday! Dudes. TNC is turning two-years-old this week! I’m not sure how I’ll celebrate it (virtual party hat?), but I’m pretty darn grateful with how everything has turned out over the last couple years. 🙂
What are your goals for the month?
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That was my favorite part of San Francisco, all of the colors and bright buildings! And of course, the food. Hope you had great weather.
Thanks Muriel! The weather was beautiful! We got lucky. 🙂
Big goals this month! Moving alone is a lot of work. Hope everything goes well.
Thank you Maria! I hope it does, too. 🙂
It must be so exciting to move to LA! Best of luck to you and everyone with their goals.
Girl Against Oleka
Thank you so much Asli! I’m excited and a little nervous. 🙂
Happy Blog Birthday! Best of luck with the move, that is aways stressful! Wish I had known you were looking for a VA. I’m behind on blog reading 🙂 Good luck!!
Looking forward to the new look and congrats on having a fabulous January! 🙂
Thanks doll! I hope your February is wonderful!
I loved your Instagram pictures from San Francisco! I was up there on Saturday night and I am still always enchanted with the adorable colorful houses. 🙂
Wow! Such great goals this week. Don’t worry, I am sure you will find an apartment, these things have a way of sorting themselves out! I am glad you have fun in San Francisco!
Happy blog birthday week too!
Also, what virtual assistant are you looking at? I have been wondering about this too!
Those sound like some damn exciting goals! Good luck!
You have so many big goals this week… Good luck! I’m glad you got to take a vacation in San Francisco!
Good luck with your move to LA! Which part do you plan on living in? My best friend from college is in the Santa Monica area and used to live in Venice – both were awesome parts of town!
What a perfect time to visit — San Francisco has been beautiful lately! Glad you enjoyed your stay out here. 🙂 Best wishes for an easy move to LA!
Oh wow! Super-busy month ahead! Do you ever use themes to help with web design? I like to start off with those and then change things as needed. That’s how I build sites. 🙂
I recently discovered your Weekly Wishes, & I love it! It’s really motivating. I submitted my first installment 🙂 Seems like February is going to busy for you! Good luck! It all sounds so exciting!
Christina
http://www.cityloveee.blogspot.com
Such simple yet huge goals! I love the photos you’ve been sharing from SF and have high hopes that you’ll find a place in LA that you love! I think it will be a really good move for you. You should check out the Folk Art museum after you move. They have 2 exhibits that change every couple months. Some that I’ve seen are really cool!
This is my first WW linkup in almost a year, though I’ve never stopped reading your blog Melyssa. It’s been so fun to see how you’ve grown it so much!
What part of LA? 🙂 We lived in Noho and it wasn’t exactly our fave part of the city
Good luck with your goals this week! It sounds like you had a wonderful and busy January! 🙂
Wow, sounds like an incredible month!! I can’t wait to see and hear about the changes that are coming up! I’m so inspired by your journey and I can’t wait to celebrate 2 years of TNC with you! Have a wonderful week, Melyssa!
Two years old already!? Where did the time go? Maybe you can have a celebration by eating cupcake or ice-cream like Wina did. Heh.
I can’t wait to see the new layout! It’s amazing to see everything you have accomplished in only 2 years of blogging! I hope I’ll get there someday. 😉 Good luck with your February goals!
I’m already obsessed with your layout now, but I’m still so excited to see your new one! I can’t believe it’s February already. I think I’m going to take a break from goal setting this week and just try to catch a breath! It might be a little soothing to not have to constantly think ahead, at least for a little while 🙂 -Audrey | Brunch at Audrey’s
My goal for my blog on january was to get 300 visits, and I nailed it! I got 318! So for february I want to get to 400 🙂
Yay! Congrats on TNC two year anniversary!! AND yes SF is amazing ball! 😉
Came across your post this morning and it inspired me to start my own little wishlist and goal setting list – here is my attempt: http://www.justblueflint.com/blog/february-goals
Happy Blog Birthday and have an awesome-tastic February!
My goal this month is to sleep and wake up early, and stop stop stop procrastinating! Being lazy is one thing, but in January my procrastination problem got so bad that I literally just won’t do any work. Gotta get it together! Oh, and happy blog birthday 🙂
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Can I submit my resume for the virtual assistant? Just kidding. LOL. I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to find a great apartment in LA soon. But yeah, it’s kind of scary that you’re moving but you don’t have a place to move to yet.
http://heidepadilla.blogspot.com/
I’m so jealous and excited at the same time….city living is the best! Sadly I live suburbia and miss city life. Good luck I’m sure you’ll find a place to live in no time. I’ve heard about those virtual assistants let us know how the search goes.
Best of luck with your move and all this exciting new stuff for February!
One of my goals is to finish up some paintings that I have in the works and submit them to some shows that have submission deadlines at the end of the month! 🙂
Congrats on TNC’s upcoming two year anniversary – and congrats to you for building such an energetic and positive community in that time! I know there’s A LOT of hard work and hustle that went into it behind the scenes, but you made it seem natural and flow easily! Cheers!
Yay! Wonderful goals as always. You are so productive! Best of luck in all of these endeavors. I know you’ll make it all happen!
Circus & Bloom
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Moving to California…I wish I could! One of my personal goals (wishes?) for the year was to visit California. I don’t know when and I don’t know how, but I really want it to happen this year!!!
~ Samantha
What an exciting start to the year for you – LA is going to be a blast I’m sure! Happy birthday TNC, you have done such an inspiring job with your blog in such a short space of time!!
Happy birthday TNC *blows whistle*
Oh…San Francisco. I love that city. My hubby and I went there before we had kiddos and I would LOVE to go back again someday. The houses, the bay, the bridge, the hills…such a great city.
This sounds like a great idea! So glad I stumbled onto TNC 🙂 Happy blog birthday and good luck with your move!
LA is definitely on my bucket list of places to visit!! Here’s some of my goals for this year!! http://www.fattoglam.com/my-new-years-resolutions-and-goals/