I'll start off by wishing you all a very Happy New Year! I feel like the past year was to put it mildly, really quite mad. It has genuinely felt like the most stressful year of my life, especially the past few months which included a house move, a missing cat (who thankfully came home after 9 days), a bout of COVID, and not being able to talk for four weeks. So I am beyond ready to move into 2023 and hopefully with some better luck!
Now, I don't know about you but I've never really been one for resolutions, I think they can get too complicated and I'm terrible in that if I don't do something once I feel I've failed and throw the whole thing out. However, this year I have kind of landed myself with one that I'd been mulling over in the run-up to the new year, that is an overarching goal of all the mini goals I want to do.
I find that there are so many aspects of my life in which I want to do more that when it comes to creating 'resolutions' or goals, I would be so quickly overloaded by goals that I would be too overwhelmed to actually remember them or start them. So I find that this overarching resolution will be perfect for me, and it is simply to be more consistent. In so many things I find I'm just not as consistent as I would like to be, whether it is reading every day (or more realistically every other day) or exercising in a consistent manner rather than for a two-week period and then not for months at a time...
There are of course still mini goals that I would like to achieve, from feeling healthier to doing more fun things! But in the bookish world some of the things that I would like to do this year are:
Attend more book talks by authors - I genuinely loved going to these this year and is definitely something I want to continue to do to understand the process more and get inspired to write from
Read 52 books - the pretty standard challenge of one book a week but I am excited as I managed 83 in 2022 so I feel it should be manageable!
Reread more books - I feel like I get too caught up in the pressure to read the new books as they come out and keep up with the hype, but there are some amazing books I really want to reread that I've been neglecting that I would love to annotate
Read a chapter before bed every day - I mean there will definitely be days where this is just not possible, but I would like to try and be a little more consistent in my reading as sometimes if I sit down and read a book in one go I forget a lot of what happened or it blurs together!
Be more consistent with my posting - on here as I do really enjoy writing these posts, and also on instagram though I sometimes find it difficult to take nice pictures which can be demotivating, but I suppose that is also where consistency comes in - I need to consistently take more so I don't do them in one batch!
I feel like I'm not setting myself too many goals or any that I don't genuinely want to do, so I feel like if I follow along with it and be more consistent in what I want to do then I will feel happier and healthier in achieving my goals. I'm hoping that this year will be full of happiness, love and laughter for myself and for you. Let me know if you have any resolutions or goals too!
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