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Question: What are your blogging/reading goals for the year?
Answer: Is anyone reading this??? I have not blogged in SIX MONTHS!
I'm not even sure why I'm bothering at this point lol I'm not sure if anyone will visit this post - or if I won't vanish again for another 6 months.
I read 17 books last year and posted 16 times on the blog - not even one of those posts were a review EEK!
Last year was a YEAR. For a lot of reasons - Kevin lost his dad to cancer being one of those things but a lot had been going on. 2025 looks to be rocky as well, with the world and I have some medical tests upcoming but I DO want to try to get back to some type of regular reading and/or blogging. I am not one for resolutions or goals but I am going to try to do some simple things to maybe get me back on track.
1) Read one chapter from a physical book or Kindle and listen one hour to an audiobook - per day.
It doesn't seem like much but my book focus is shot! I do somewhat better with audio because I listen while running errands. But I can't seem to listen while doing anything else so it takes me weeks to finish an audiobook.
My hope is one chapter a day may lead to two - or just get my brain in that reader mode again. If not, one chapter a day will still get a book read, even if it's not very fast.
Oh how the mighty have fallen - I used to easily read one book a day!
2) Blog once a week or even a monthly wrap up if weekly feels like too much.
I have got to find an easier/more spontaneous way to do this. I want to blog but sitting down and formatting pictures/links and all that is not rewarding for me anymore.
I often think to post a picture of what I'm reading or somewhere fun I've been but then I do it on Instagram and figure everyone has already seen it. I don't know...I miss the old days of blogging (Old Lady...I remember in my day when we blogged...lol) and I'm struggling to find a way to do it that's still fun for me. But....I always miss it when I step away for too long.
3) Make 1 recipe from a cookbook I own per week.
Not quite reading - but I probably bought or was given, at least, 20-ish cookbooks last year and I don't think I've made more than 1-2 recipes from them. I keep getting distracted by new Instagram recipes instead lol
Several of the books are written in a way that tell family/cultural stories along with the recipes and I really want to deep dive into them and learn how to cook better now that I live somewhere with amazing ingredients almost year round.
If you are here reading this MUAH!!! Thank you - I missed you! Happy New Year!
What are your reading, blogging or even personal goals for the year?
Or do you do a word or phrase? That's what I usually do but I'm sort of just carrying all my past words forward this year since I think they will be relevant - LAUGH, SIMPLIFY, DISCONNECT lol
Happy New Year, Karen! Good to hear from you.
ReplyDeleteBlogging is hard so the best way to post more often is to talk about whatever amuses you at the moment. A book, an experience. Good luck.
In 2025 I hope to continue and finish reading the rest of Tom Wolfe's oeuvre. Love his writing, both fiction and non-fiction.