Sharonna Karni an inspiring entrepreneur and co-founder of online community Dreame shares her journey in making her - and your - dreams come true.
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Six months after I myself graduated college, I wrote a post giving my advice to new grads. I essentially said 'the thing you do right after you graduate is not as important to Your Future as you think it is'. Not bad, but I've had a few years now to contemplate what advice I would share with those graduating high school and college in the near future: A four year degree is not always the answer When I was 18, I was under the impression that a four year degree was my only option. But degrees from four year universities are not
Okay. How is January over already?! The first month of the year is already under our belts, but I hope it's been a good one for you so far. A new year brings so many new opportunities and experiences, and so does each month! January brought many challenges, but it also brought many new opportunities, and I'm excited to crush my goals again in February! As far as a mini life update, I'll share that towards the end. Fair warning, it's real talk. I'm sharing my heart and I'm opening up to a lot of things I've kept hidden from my blog life. January Goals Revisited // Personal Goals One // Clear out the spare closet Check! I actually just packed up all of the clothes that I'll be getting rid of in a huge bin and it's all ready to get out the door! Two // Read one book Okay, I am actually the worst with reading. I didn't even pick up a book last month. Definitely gotta try harder in February. Blogging Goals One // Pre-write blog posts YAS! I've been doing this and it's helped so much. Whenever I feel inspired to write, I write as many as I can and have posts written weeks in advance! I have my posts planned out all the way through the end of February already and a few into March! Two // Stop focusing on numbers THIS! No joke this has changed the game for me. Of course I'm still going to look into my analytics, I am running a business after all, but I'm not obsessing over them and driving myself crazy. I'm using my numbers to help me grow versus getting discouraged over them. Three // Plan out photoshoot sessions This has helped so much this past month. I met up with Summer to shoot and planned out weekends strategically to have time set aside for shoots with Christopher. Planning out a shot list is definitely a time saver! All in all, January was a really great month for me. I learned a lot, I tried many new strategies, and my blog is growing like crazy. I'm just gonna go ahead and pat myself on the back now. 😂 But in all seriousness, January was a great start to the new year! Now it's time to kick it into high gear during February. Pin Me For Later! February Goals // Personal Goals One // Pay down $1,000 in debt We still have a few thousand left to pay off from our wedding and of course we have crippling student loans. I'd love to focus $1,000 of this month's income on paying down some debt. I know it will help us in the long run--especially since we *fingers crossed* will be moving in a few months. Two // Secure a place to live So we have to move out of the apartment we are in now. It's gotten horrible over the past few months. They've let many people move in that should not have been accepted to live here, and it's just turned our "luxury" neighborhood into garbage. I'm talking screaming at 2:00 AM, playing drums under our bedroom at 2:30 AM...the list goes on and on, but I can't take it anymore! My goal is to secure a place to live, whether it be a home or another apartment. Blogging Goals One // Grow my New Facebook Group In January, I started a group called Cultivating Instagram Engagement for Bloggers. If you're looking to grow your Instagram following, engage with new people, and be part of of genuine community, I'd love for you to join! Join here >>> Cultivating Instagram Engagement for Bloggers Two // Continue organically growing on Instagram During January, I tried something new. I interacted more with accounts I was following and made a ton of new blogging friends by interacting and following those I wasn't following. I stopped caring about a follower to following ratio, and if I genuinely liked someone's account, I followed them with no questions asked. I may or may not have a post in the works about my organic strategy, because I gained a record amount of followers in just 30 days! 😉 Follow along with me on Instagram here! Three // Focus on increasing Pinterest engagement & monthly viewers As a blogger, Pinterest is super important. Pinterest alone drives over 30k+ new viewers to my blog each month and they're sticking around too, because they read 2+ blog posts each time they visit! I want to continue to dive in and focus on growing my Pinterest monthly viewers, because I am so close to hitting the pageview goal I've set for myself! Mini Life Update // As you can tell from my goals, my blog life has been going really well! I am so happy with where I am in the blogging world, since I've only been blogging full-time since last February. But unfortunately, the income isn't where it needs to be right now, and I know a lot of other bloggers are feeling the same. Okay fair warning, prep for word vomit and tons of vulnerability, it's time for #realtalk. Related Reading: Why I Quit My Job Without Having Another I've been feeling all kinds of emotions the past few months from sadness, anger, and I've been feeling useless. I'm sad because I put so much time (50+ hours a week!), effort, and passion behind what I do, and I feel like it's not paying out. I'm angry at myself, because I gave up a steady income, yes to pursue my dreams, but gosh, it's scary! Essentially, we'd be in a house already, student loans would be paid way down, and maybe we actually would have had enough money to go on a freaking honeymoon. Was it all worth it? I hope so. Now sadly, I feel useless and I hate to even admit this, but I do--I'm just being real with you (obviously). Sometimes I feel useless in the blog world, because do people even care about what I'm writing about?! Honestly, how many people are going to read this last paragraph? If you are, you're the real MVP, but gosh, I hate this feeling. I also feel useless, because my income means nothing to lenders since I am self-employed. Chris and I really need a new place to live (due to the reasons I explained above & more so in my personal goals), and we were hoping to buy a house within the next 1-2 months, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen, and so I'm preparing for the worst. Pin Me For Later! I feel at fault here for a lot of the personal opportunities that Chris and I have had to give up the past year, and I don't want to feel that way anymore. If you've been following along on the blog for the past year, you know that I've been looking for a part-time job for a while now--something to fill in the gap and to have an income that counts to the world. It's been an entire year of looking with no luck and I feel so defeated. Within the past month, I've applied to several places and I'm mentally preparing myself to re-enter the workforce, but nothing ever seems right. I have a really great opportunity on the horizon, and I pray that a) it works out or b) something good comes from it. To answer a question that might be at the back of your mind, no I won't be giving up blogging. I've worked far too hard to get to where I am today. I'm just accepting the fact that I need to take more responsibility, because my actions and decisions affect more than just me now. Chris has been more than supportive every step of the way, and for that, I'll be forever grateful, but I want to work harder to show him that I appreciate all of his support and encouragement this past year. So, in saying all of that, if you could keep me in your prayers, especially in the next few weeks as they are crucial to this entire process. I know God has an amazing plan and that everything will work itself out, but man is He cutting it close this time! I love you all & thanks for hearing my heart.
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Happy Friday everyone!! I hope you all had a great week & thank you for stopping by to see some of my favorites from this week. I had a hard time refraining from sharing some holiday favorites with you, but I am trying to wait until after Thanksgiving to share those. Even though our house is looking a lot like Christmas already. I know I'm not alone on that, don't judge me. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this weeks favorites & that you have an amazing weekend! xx Favorite kitchen. Favorite chalkboard wall. Favorite boots. Favorite ceramics. Favorite bed.
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Hi Everyone! Lately I have found myself reflecting more so on life than usual (which is saying a lot). So far, I have absolutely loved my life. I consider it thus far a great success, adventure, joy, romance and wonder. Every moment of it has been worthwhile and awesome. Much has been exciting, fulfilling, passionate, fun, magical, wild and happy. Some has been challenging, heartbreaking, difficult or sad. But all of it has been magnificent, and I have little doubt it will keep unfolding in such a way as I will continue to make it so. What a lot of people forget is that they have this same power of choice over their own life paths. With all of that said, an activity I find to be both inspiring and worthwhile is in the creating of a "bucket list." I'm sure you've all heard the term, as its become a trendy one as of late. A bucket list, meaning sketching out the things you hope to do/experience/see/become within your lifetime. I feel that many of us (myself included) make the mistake often of forgetting just how short life really is. Time is passing quickly. We only have a limited amount of time on this earth, and its fleeting. A one shot deal. This is it. And meaning in our lives is created purely within the meaning that we ourselves assign it. Therefore, I think the purposeful creating of a bucket list can aid us in figuring out: what is it exactly that I want to do with the time that's been given to me? This exercise can add meaning, direction and a sense of joyful anticipation to your life as it already is. Hopefully alongside the continued reveling of your day to day experiences in the present as well, which is what one should be doing anyway, right? Because happiness isn't really about the end of the journey or the ultimate destination. It IS the journey. That is what I am coming to realize. Here is a small snippet from my own bucket list written a few years ago (a number of which I can excitedly claim to have since checked off!) that may hopefully aid in inspiring you in getting your own list going: Live in Europe Have a little lake cottage someday Have a fireplace/wood stove in my home Learn how to make authentic chocolate croissants. Publish a book. Backpack through Europe for a minimum of 3 weeks in one stretch. Continue maintaining the close friends I have had for years now, as well as keep making additional new, deep friendships throughout the course of my life. One of my biggest sources of happiness is the pretty large handful of very close friends I have. I want to both maintain and keep adding to this. Have pets throughout of my life (ideally a couple of cats and a dog). Bake a truly show-stopping cake that's absolutely delicious to boot. Have great fun entertaining friends and family throughout my life (board game nights, dinner parties, holiday parties, other fun types of get togethers, and more). Continue to cook and bake, learning more and more recipes and ever improving. Self publish a cookbook. Potentially open my own café/B&B/Healthy food place someday. Or, have my own culinary creations by served in an official establishment of some sort. Finish paying off my student loans by the age of 45 at the latest. Give at least 3 people I love a gift that takes their breath away. Have a romantic partner with whom I might like to spend the majority of my life (or possibly even the entirety of it J if it works out this way). And with said romantic partner, build a relationship that is a close friendship as well as a passionate romance. One in which we can tell each other anything, be wholly ourselves together, we are emotionally close friends who love spending time in each others company while also being wild about and totally smitten with one another. A relationship that is honest, fun, loyal, easy going, full of surprises, great listening, adventure and is emotionally open/deep. Having engaging, poignant and easy conversations, are silly together, and have many activities we enjoy doing together along with sharing similar values. Possibly have one child. Throw a couple of truly awesome, atmospheric, swanky parties in my lifetime. Have a meal at a top-notch (but also romantic) restaurant. Eat something absolutely mouthwatering somewhere with a breathtaking view. Remain fit and healthy throughout my life. Continue to gobble up books throughout my life as I LOVE this (I'm nearing the 1,000 mark. Hope to double it ;-)). Fill a big album with my very best travel photos. Make this a coffee table book in my home someday. 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I've white water canoed for an afternoon, but I want to experience the real deal, on rafts down a hardcore, churning river for a few days in a row. St. Kitts or Turks & Caicos. There's still so much I want to see in Europe. More of Italy (Lake Como, Amalfi Coast, Positano, Taormina), Dublin, Bruges and Brussels in Belgium, London, Switzerland (Gimmelwald, ride the Glacier Express), more of Scotland as I LOVED Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Greece (Santorini), Poland (Warsaw), The Algarve in Portugal. There you have it. I would love to hear what sort of things are on other peoples life lists!! Both for my own inspiration and just out of general curiosity :-) So tell me, what's on your own bucket list?
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