Top Ten Tuesday (86)

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Top Ten Goals/Resolutions For 2015

I’ll be honest, 2014 was not the greatest year for blogging for me. I wasn’t in a ‘slump’, I think I just got lazy. I’ve had an exhausting year at work and with low vitamins/minerals, when I got home I just wanted to veg out or sleep. And I moved and I just could not get organized, I felt all over the place and just blah. It wasn’t just blogging that suffered either, I stopped doing Yoga for the most part, which I absolutely love. I’m planning on getting my butt back in gear in 2015 and getting organized with blogging and just READING! You can totally tell I was feeling unmotivated in 2014 based on the amount of books alone I read: nearly 50 less than I did the previous year. And not because I didn’t want to. I’m working hard on getting things organized already, so, hopefully, the majority of these come to fruition 🙂

1. Commenting and being more social

I said this would be a goal in 2014 or at least the commenting part and I’m pretty sure I failed miserably. This is really important to me. I want to be more active commenting and I really want to be more social. I feel like that has slipped considerably this year and I want that to change, bit time. “She was filled with good intentions…” is probably my unintentional mantra. I INTEND to do all these things, and then I don’t. blah. I had a system, which clearly doesn’t work for me, so I’m in the process of figuring out how I can get at this!

2. Reread more books

I almost forgot how much I love rereading until I reread two favorites this year. I miss it. I LOVE reading stories that I previously loved, and this has really slid backward since I started blogging. I am going to change that for sure, which is why I’m participating in the Reread challenge 🙂

3. Post more discussion and organization posts

I wanted to do this more as it was one of my goals last year. And didn’t. I’ve already starting seriously drafting some of these posts for the New Year, so I can’t wait to have more of these. I love reading discussion posts, but I always feel so uninspired on my own blog. AND my organization posts have really fallen to none, which makes me sad because I loved doing them. This, friends, will change!

4. Read at least 100 books

Well, as I said above, my reading fell big time. I plan to change that. I’m getting back on the reading bus this year (and shutting Netflix off :P)!

5. Schedule at least two weeks in advance

I used to do this, and it’s clear that this directly ties into my participation in the bookish community. When I scheduled things in advance, I had a lot more time to comment, chat on Twitter, and definitely to read. A lot of the time this year, I would just give up on drafting a post for the very next day, and just not post anything. I’m getting back into creating a backlog, and plan to consistently keep up with this goal!

6. Limit the review copies. Severely.

I have an upcoming post on this exact topic and the books I’ve purchased, but this has GOT to stop. I obtain WAY too many review copies. It’s largely related to the fact that I am auto approved with Harpercollins on Edelweiss, but really, I was taking in more books than I could read last year. Especially with my reading being so low. I’m only planning on taking the maximum of 5 titles this year  month*, obviously with room for an extra here or there depending on what happens, but this is probably one of the most important goals to me.
*Gosh,  I realized this when going to comment tonight that I put YEAR! I wish it could be a yearly expected total haha, but I definitely meant month 😛

7. Stop purchasing books (with limitations)

You will see the severity of this issue in my upcoming post, but this is out of control. I plan on only buying books if I am reading it immediately upon purchase, or if it’s a title that I have already read and want to add to my collection. I’m not going to go on a book buying ban because I know for someone like me, that’s not going to work so I know there will be times where I get a few at once (Book Outlet orders for instance, it doesn’t make sense to order one book for instance if they have a sale and I have to pay for shipping anyway) but this is going to be drastically scaled back.

8. Get up to date & finish series that I’m ‘currently’ reading

Oh wow, I need to do this in a BAD way. I am the worst for starting and putting aside series so much, and I really want to finish up the series I’m working with. I just need to get caught up before I saunter off to a new one 😛

9. Read my bookshelf

Yah, I have run out of room on my TBR bookshelf (it’s bad enough that I must have one of those haha) and have started to overflow onto the ‘read’ shelves. This is bad. I have Ikea billy bookcases… there was lots of room on that shelf 😛

10. Finish my book room

Jeez, I really need to finish this. Considering I have been working on it for 6 months, I need to get this in order. And before like March. That’s my real goal 🙂

Phew. That’s a load, but here’s to hoping 🙂 What are your resolutions/goals for 2015?