2018 Blogging Resolutions – How Did I Do?

Personal Resolutions Were:

Read less, spend more time gaming and volunteering: Mixed Result

I did not read less. However, I did spend more time playing board games with my family which was good. I also ramped up volunteer work helping with the Food Shelf through work and helping to run my son’s Knowledge Bowl team at school. I also helped with the Book Fair again at my son’s school.

Focus on building endurance, strength, and flexibility to improve my health: Mixed Result

I didn’t really get to working on this until mid-year. Another job change put a wrench in my plans. However, since September I have been either running 3 miles or biking 10 miles every day (with the occasional rest day). I have also been spending a lot more time stretching. While my weight has only decreased by 5 lbs, my % body fat is down by 3% and I have a lot more energy.

Blogging Resolutions Were:

1.  Keep My Review Pile Under Control: Success!!!

I never had more than 1-2 review books per month and did a great job at keeping this in check.

2.  Reduce my TBR Pile: Hugh Success!!

I only had 34 books left on my TBR pile at the end of the year.  This was huge for me and I plan on continuing to drop this to zero in 2019.

3. Read less books this year: FAIL 🙁  

I read way more books this year than last year.  Mainly because I was hitting the TBR pile pretty hard.  In hind-site it’s a bit counter-intuitive to expect that I would get through my TBR pile and not read MORE books.

4. Expand on the theme of this blog: FAIL!

I actually put less emphasis on blog activities and I am not sorry that I did this.  Working on my blog less helped me reach more of my life goals, so I am okay with not meeting this!