This Year

As this year wraps up, I've been thinking back on the goals I set back in January and what I've accomplished.

One goal I set was to read 20 books this year. Before setting the goal, I'd read maybe 2 books in a year. I've always enjoyed reading but had gotten away from it. Instead, I was writing a lot. I wanted to improve my writing skills and heard reading a variety of things was a good way to improve. Of the 20 books, 9 were novel length. So I feel a sense of accomplishment about that.

A couple times during the year I faced very challenging situations in regards to controlling my anxiety. For most of those situations I was successful. I was able to do what I set out to do, and get through the situation with relative ease.

I was also able to help with saving money so that me and Heather could go on a trip to California. A lot of the planning was my job. So I read over a lot of travel books, checked flights, read hotel reviews and such. The efforts paid off because we got to go. (I've been working on some posts about it. Just stuff that I thought about it that just showing the pictures wouldn't tell you. Besides, most who might read this have seen the pictures.)

Another goal was to get in better shape physically. I'm still 5 pounds from my goal but I've already lost 20 pounds this year. Managing that, I feel like I can continue to set goals in that regard and reach them.

There were other goals that were important to me that unfortunately I didn't reach. For example, I really wanted to make reading the daily text part of my routine. At most I'd do about 3 days in a row. :(  What ever goals I didn't reach this year are probably going to be set for next year. Some I might have to analyze why I didn't reach them. Perhaps with some of them, I didn't take the right approach. If I change my approach, perhaps I'll be more successful.

I feel like I learned some important things about myself as well this year.

I hope whoever reads this has also had success this year with their goals. :)

(Since I'm trying really hard to only present the positive in this post, I'll end it now.) Thanks for reading!