This year I've really had to stick to a very tight budget, gone are the days of blowing all my pay cheques on clothes like I did when I was 17. Being in my first year of self employment I really don't earn a huge amount of money every month and even that money is never 100% guaranteed and that is one of the risks you take with freelancing. So I've really had to take a good hard look at my spending and set myself a budget and I have to stick to that and here is what I've learnt from it: 

Failure isn't a pretty topic isn't it, I for one am horrible at admitting something hasn't worked out for me because I'm just too proud. Over the past couple of years I've realised it's ok to fail and sometimes it's actually good for us to. We can't be good at everything and I think the most important thing is that if you've tried your best and it just hasn't worked out that there is absolutely no shame in that in admitting that. 

You really can't beat the feeling of a fresh year can you? New calendars and diaries make me especially excited for 2015. I also think the new start of a new year can be great for your mind, if you've had a rough last twelve months you can start to put them behind you but it's also important to learn from those experiences as well. I always like to set myself some goals at this time of year, they aren't huge mammoth things as I find if you set yourself goals that are too big then you will never achieve them so here are things that I'm going to trying to achieve in 2015: