Mid-Year Glow-Up: Checking In on My 2025 Goals

Hello friends! Wow, I can't believe we're ALMOST halfway through the year already. Isn't that crazy? I thought we could do a bit of a mid year check-in to see where I'm at with my 2025 Goals. You can check out my OG post for My 2025 Goals "here".

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Mid-Year Glow-Up: Checking In on My 2025 Goals

I'll post the goals and then highlight the ones I've achieved. For goals still to go, I will add in a separate section at the end. I hope that makes sense!

1. Read 20-30 books - I've read 28 books woo! I think that's a record for me (other than like uni years)

2. Save X amount of money

3. Pay my 2 x student loan payments

4. Make a 2nd blog - something to do with food, I am thinking eats by ash or eats with ash - just need to find a domain, figure out what host I will use and make sure I can find an IG handle for it. This one is ticked off, you can check out www.eatswithash.com, and I'm working on improving my blogs overall.

5. Make a free download (like a printable) for this blog - asheycakes

6. Put more effort into sociology content - Considering my main focus of my YT channel is this, I've definitely been doing this. You can check out my channel "here". I'm still working on being confident in front of the camera but we'll get there.

7. Make more aesthetic/cinematic vlogs

8. Increase my social following (I think this is better than focusing on a number because when I focused on the numbers, it really frustrated me)

9. Finish my secret project

10. Go live at least once on a social media platform (even if it's Benji's account) - I've done this on both Benji's account (multiple times) and my IG! Wooo :D

11. Work on getting sponsorships/brand deals for my content

12. Increase affiliate sales

13. Invest in better technology, such as lighting - I did this at the start of the year, got new tripods and an umbrella and a fancy desk light thing. I gotta learn more about food photography though.

14. Organise my ABN - This was super easy.

15. Make more short-form content

16. Start writing fiction

17. Learn to use Procreate/some sort of animation

18. Lose 5-10kg

19. Eat healthier

20. Do daily mindfulness (so could be meditation, breath work, a walk outside, or affirmations) - I also count gratitude lists and colouring in as daily mindfulness so I do this most days.

21. Leave the house more

22. Learn to make bread and pasta (now that we have the pasta attachment for the KitchenAid) - Pasta I've learned from Luke but bread I haven't touched yet.

23. Make sorbet/ice cream - YESSSSS I love making ice cream, it's so fun to experiment with flavours.

24. Look after the herb garden better - I'm getting better at this, like we fixed the soil and planted some thyme again but I don't have heaps of herbs yet. I'll get there though.

25. Travel somewhere with Luke and Benji - we went to Lake Daylesford. You can check out my blog on that "here". It was so fun.

26. Get to Level 50 in Pokémon Go

27. Go on a ghost tour/ghost hunting - yep, this is also the same as last year, maybe we should get a Rempod and go somewhere random and try.

28. Play Randonautica at least once - we played this a few times and we were pleasantly surprised at how fun it was. Check out my vlog "here".

29. Buy 2-3 nice outfits - We had to buy nice dresses for a wedding so I think I've done this and I got a nice leather skirt and knit that go together really well so I'm ticking this one off.

30. And my bonus goal is to do something adrenalin junkie (and I'm putting this as a bonus goal so my mum doesn't come for me giving me ideas). This could be something like getting another tattoo, a ghost tour, jet boating, or going up a really tall building. But it's my bonus goal so there's not a lot of pressure around it.

    
    

So I've done 12.5/30 - almost halfway LOL!

Goals still to complete! (18/30)

1. Save X amount of money - the cost of living crisis is annoying and power bills are expensive LOL but we want to travel, so saving will be our main goal very soon!

2. Pay my 2 x student loan payments - I've paid more than half but I don't even know if this should be a goal because it's just something that I have to do when living overseas.

3. Make a free download (like a printable) for this blog - asheycakes - If ya'll have any ideas about this let me know! My brain is a bit mushy atm.

4. Make more aesthetic/cinematic vlogs - I don't know if I'm ever going to be good at this hahahahaha

5. Increase my social following - It's slowly increasing

6. Finish my secret project -  - I started doing this again, but then I stopped. Is something wrong with me LOL?

7. Work on getting sponsorships/brand deals for my content

8. Increase affiliate sales

9. Make more short-form content

10. Start writing fiction - I had a few ideas, but I'm not sure yet. It's just that thing of sitting down and doing it or starting. And I don't want more half-finished projects.

11. Learn to use Procreate/some sort of animation - I've started watching Procreate tutorials on YouTube, but I need to follow along

12. Lose 5-10kg

13. Eat healthier - we have definitely been cooking a lot more so I'll be able to tick this one off soon

14. Leave the house more - I am trying!

15. Learn to make bread

16. Get to Level 50 in Pokémon Go - I'm still at Level 43 so I think this one is going to take a while

17. Go on a ghost tour/ghost hunting

18. Bonus goal is to do something adrenalin junkie

I'll probably do another 2025 goals check-in in November or December and I do also need to do a "30 things I want to do before I'm 30" update before I actually turn 30 too. I'm just going to spend the next few months having an existential crisis over it.

What goals have you achieved so far this year?

Thanks for reading

Ash x