2018 Goals

I know we are now in the middle of February but I haven’t really done any update posts this year as I’ve had to many things going on, so Happy New Year I hope you all had a good Christmas and I hope that your year is getting off to a nice start, if it’s not then just keep telling yourself there’s still 10 more months left in 2018 things can only get better.

Like a few things on my blog, I first found a certain topic post on my cousins blog (Loaded Shelves) and then I decide that it sounds fun and I would also do it, wither that be a challenge or just a post like this one (Here’s her post).

I saw the post a while back and I though oh, I should do that I never set proper goals just like most of you and I’m even worse at keeping them if I do but I do like to have something to aim for, I know that these goals are just something for me to aim towards so I won’t get upset or disappointed if I don’t manage to stick to them although I will find a way to reward myself at the end of the year if I manage to achieve them all.

Here is what I'm working towards this year, both book related and none bookrelated!

Facebook

I have found myself at the end of 2017 and these last two months just scrolling through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter reading people's posts or watching videos people have posted. I know that I can't delete my social media accounts as it's the only way I can talk to the people I talk to when I'm feeling low and my main way of getting in touch with authors. I believe though that if I hadn’t spent so much time needlessly scrolling I could have fitted in a few more books or I could have read bigger books over short stories.

Reading
At the start of 2017 I set my Goodreads goal to 52 as I wanted to read a book a week but by March/April I was way behind so I changed it to 35, then in November when I ended up moving back to mums I just stopped reading so at the end of November I had only read 22/23 so books I changed it to 30 just because I didn’t want to epically fail the challenge, still I didn’t expecting to read 30 books I thought I would be one or two short but I managed to read 33 so I wish I had left it at 35 now and just failed it. This year I have set it at 35 so when I see it saying "You are x books behind" it will hopefully motivate me to read more. I am currently on track with 3/35 read so far this year.

95% of my books are still packed away so I have decided that because I have been getting books from the free section on Amazon every few months for the last 5/6 years (I have nearly 3 thousand of them) I am going to read some of them this year along with finally reading the Harry Potter and Twilight series.

Buying Books
Believe it or not I hardly bought any books last year and I plan on doing it again this year. I do have some pre-ordered and I will be buying any that I need to finish a series I've been reading as well as any written by Jessica Brody and Alyson Noel as I have all their others (Not all of them have been read though). Now I have quit my job this goal will be much easier to achieve seeing as the money I will be getting will have to go towards bills and important things, this year is all about getting my TBR list down and not adding to it.

Weight Loss
This one might be a big problem for me as I love my food and I am super lazy but in November 2016 I had medical gym pass and from the November to about March 2017 and I managed to go from 72kgs to 68kg, then in September last year I signed up for the gym and was going regularly and I got down to 65kg I even started going swimming and now that I have moved I haven’t been going to the gym but I do want to lose some more weight I just need to find some motivation to get out of the house maybe I will grab my iPad and my iPod and walk along the beach sit and read for a while and then walk home, maybe I could even take my sister and her friend with me and they can play one the beach.

Enjoy Our Home
Cazz on Loaded shelves is right this does sound crazy but now I'm living back at my mums I'm trying to save money too so that I can move out, so I'm stealing her idea of staying at home more and doing jigsaws and playing board games (I have monopoly and Cluedo) with the siblings maybe play more Sims 3 and 4 seeing as I have all of the sims 3 and most of the sims 4 and these are things that are not going to cost me. I also plan on reading, writing more and catching up on some films too and I can finally get round to watching all the box sets that I have.

Getting A Job

I quit a job today because after travel costs (£30 a week and a 45ish mile journey twice a week) I hardly had any money left over after giving my mum rent money and paying my bills and getting essentials. So I signed on to the job centre so that I have some money coming in while I find a job that is closer to home and one that I actually enjoy.

Spending More Time With The Ones I Love

I had been living quite far from my friends and family for the last three years meaning that I only ever spoke to them over social media or on the rare occasions that I could afford to go and visit them, I miss cinema visits with my cousin, spending time with my niece and nephew and watching films or playing games with my little sister. So from now on I want to spend more time with my family maybe make it a regular thing with my cousin for cinema trips maybe every month or two, I’ll take my brother, sister, niece and nephew to the beach or park once a week (when the weather gets nicer anyway).

So these are my goals I will try and keep you updated on them when I can. I've not made any goals to keep blogging & post reviews etc - 2018 is about putting less pressure on myself. Of course I will still be posting reviews and I have a few release blitz posts that will be coming up soon but I am trying to sort my life out right now.

xxx