Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Goals/Resolutions for 2014 – January 7, 2014

Posted January 7, 2014 by Rose C. in Memes, Top Ten Tuesdays / 12 Comments

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Top Ten Goals/Resolutions for 2014 Both Bookish and non-book related:

 

Rose review avatar   Rose’s List of Top Ten:

To be fair, only a few of my resolutions are book related. Here they are in no particular order:

  1.   Walk Maddox at least once a day, every day. For those who do not know, Maddox is my 1 year of Doberman puppy. To say he is full of energy is an understatement.  I have taken him for an off leash walk around our walking trails in our community. It takes about 45 minutes. I come back exhausted. He comes back spritely and with an exuberant spring in his step. So yes, I am also considering a treadmill for my doggy. He needs more exercise than one 45 minute run can give him.
  2.   Ride Kissy (my horse) at least 10 hours/month.  I did a 30 hours in 30 days challenge last June and the difference in my horse was astounding. I would love to ride that often all the time, but the shorter days are really a drag on my time. (Although the arena has lights, so perhaps the shorter days is a poor excuse.) The biggest hardship with riding my horse is the long congested commute. It takes usually a little over an hour to get to the horse barn. Since I get home at 5 and want to be in bed by no later than 10, that is pushing it.
  3.   Speaking of bed, I am making my bedtime of 10pm a priority. In fact, I really want to make my bedtime 9 since I get up at 5 and that way I could get 8 hours. We shall see. Right now I am setting 10pm as my bedtime and well, its 10:14pm as I type this so go figure.
  4.   Give up the soda. I am one of those people that has to drink a coke every morning. It is my morning coffee. Well, this past year has seen me gain over 20 pounds, so I am definitely going to be cutting back on the soda.  I do not know if I can ever give it up completely, but right now I am weaning off of it.
  5.   Working out more and getting into better shape.
  6.   Finish writing 2 books. Self-publish 2 books? Because I could say that I would do just one. Lets add more work on there.
  7.   Improve my Netgalley ratio. Doesn’t every blogger have this goal?
  8.   Read 50 new books this year. Scaling it back a little from last years goal of 100. That was tough!
  9.   Get my home library organized and on my goodreads shelves. I am doing this with hopes of preventing duplicate purchases. I just get so excited when I see a book on sale for $1.99 that I immediately click! I do not want to miss out on such a steal, right? But then it turns out that I usually already have at least two copies of the same book….go figure!
  10. Use night time moisturizing eye cream. Because you can have silver hair, but no one likes wrinkles around the eyes. Or at least that is what I have been told. I really just want to avoid dying my hair, so I am holding off as long as possible… lol. So I choose to focus on my eyes right now and the hair can go hang. er something…

 

Julie Review Avatar   Julie’s List of Top Ten

I think this is a great opportunity to reflect and focus on my book blogging-related goals for this upcoming year. 2014 will see a lot of changes in my personal life, and so my book blogging life should evolve and mature as well. In 2014 this blog will turn one and I’m excited to see how this year will turn out 🙂

  1.    Catch up on review books and improve Netgalley ratio. Reduce the number of arcs I request.
  2.    Catch up on my purchased but unread books. Try not to buy too many more books to add to this list. *cough*
  3.    Increase interaction on this blog with thoughtful posts and fun chat topics.
  4.    Visit more blogs and comment. I always return comments but I want to increase commenting on all the blogs I subscribe to.
  5.    Get more bloggers to participate in our That’s What He Said Meme.
  6.    Learn more cool bloggish stuff from challenges like Bloggiesta.
  7.    Use the library more.
  8.    Increase scheduling of posts in advance and decrease need for last minute posts/updates. Also, write reviews as soon as I finish the book, instead of waiting a few weeks when things get busy.
  9.    Keep up with the reading challenges I signed up for.
  10.  Make more bookish friends.

 

 


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Posted January 7, 2014 by Rose C. in Memes, Top Ten Tuesdays / 12 Comments

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12 responses to “Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Goals/Resolutions for 2014 – January 7, 2014”

  1. Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

    You both have some great resolutions here! I could really use a regular bedtime myself — it seems to get later and later, not because I have an exciting nightlife (ha!), but because I don’t have enough hours in the day to work, be with family, watch TV, and read! Something’s gotta give. 🙂 I really want to devote more time to my unread books too, and I’ve more or less decided not to worry about my NetGalley ratio until NG changes how they calculate it so that it makes more sense! Good luck with all of your goals for 2014 — wishing you both a terrific 2014!

    Lisa
    My TTT

    • Rose

      Lisa,
      I hear you on the no time thing. I find myself staying up later and later and NOT because I am having fun partying it up, but because mundane LIFE takes over and things need done like laundry. YUCK. I have set my bedtime for 9pm (I get up at 5am) and so far I have managed to get in bed no later than 11pm which is actually a huge improvement. lol. getting more sleep makes everything better.

  2. Chrissi Reads

    Great resolutions! My sister suffers from fibromyalgia so I can sympathise! Pain every day is horrible 🙁 I really hope you can feel better soon. My NetGalley ratio is on my list to improve as well.

    • Rose

      Thanks Chrissi. Sorry to hear about your sister. I know that the biggest help with pain management with me is simply getting more sleep. Crazy but it works for me.

  3. Katie @ Doing Dewey

    Haha, yep, I’m right there with you girls on the netgalley ratio thing. I think I can get it up to something reasonable this year, so I’m optimistically keeping at it 🙂 Julie, your goals 3,4, 8,9,and 10 are all things I’d like to do with my blog this year too. It can be time consuming, but so far I’ve never regretted taking the time to get more involved in the blogging community.
    Katie @ Doing Dewey recently posted…The Almost Girl

  4. Kero

    Going to bed early is something I want to work on too. And I’ve a large pile of purchased but unread books too. I don’t know if I’ll join the feature this week. But if I write my TT post today, I’ll come back and drop by the link.

    • Rose

      I so hope you can join us for That’s What He Said Thursday or Chat Between Chapters… It is always fun to interact and share with other bloggers. Im heading over to your blog now to see if you put up your TTT goals/resolutions. Thanks for commenting!

    • Rose

      Thanks Chanzie! Hope you can participate soon! (Goodreads is always a good source of swoonworthy quotes. Sometimes I forget to bookmark the good quotes while I am actually reading.)