My 2018 Quarterly Goals for Camillea Reads

Setting yearly resolutions has been a habit of mine. Breaking them, well, let’s just say I stick to it to like a bee to honey.

Can you imagine yourself visiting that goal page every month, staring longingly at dried ink, unreadable now because of the water stains and cookie crumbs smeared across the pages?

Is that you?

No?

So…just me, then.

Pity party aside. I have trouble keeping yearly goals. Looking through goals I’ve set in the past I find them too vague and not properly planned at all! So I decided to cut it down to more bite sized quarterly goals.

Being the badass that I am I’m uploading my blog goals here because…humiliation is the mother of discipline. And considering I’m listing less than five blog goals here I should be able to crush them to gold dust, right?

 Alrighty, I have time from January to May to complete my goals which I’ll try every week to update my progress with them. I also have some personal goals which I am not listing but will talk about eventually.  Since I’m also working on my thesis I have to remind myself to keep my goals light.

I just saw that my blog post is a tie in for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday which is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

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Reach to 500 followers on Instagram and WordPress 

As of now, I’ve more than 250 followers on WordPress and more than 330 on Instagram. My goal is not just about the numbers. I also want to have more interaction with other bloggers and bookstagrammers, to promote and interact with them more through my social media. As part of this, I’m also not going to stick to my “post four times a week” regime. I’m going to be a bit more flexible with my schedule to allow me more time to focus on my thesis.

Be more active on Twitter

I don’t have a set number of followers I want to reach on Twitter. I’m still getting used to it, so I feel looking to achieve a number will just put me under stress. I’m still in the stage of trying to figure out what works for me when it comes to Twitter.

Interview a blogger once a month starting February

This is something people have shown an interest in in my end of the year survey. I’m really interested in making this a monthly thing, so if you have someone in mind don’t forget to leave their blog in the comments!

Submit poetry to three journals

Not directly to do with blogging, I suppose. Ever since I started blogging I haven’t been writing poetry as much. With this goal, even if I don’t get accepted to the journals, it will push me to get back into the mindset of a poet.

Practice being mindful

Now, this one may seem like an odd goal for a blog. By being mindful I’ll learn to prioritize. Being mindful will give me the control when it comes to requesting ARCs and going on book hauls. Being mindful will make me trust my body more whether it’s to get on bed early or to go for a walk instead of reading. Being mindful will enrich my identity as a blogger without compromising the other aspects of me.

Do you keep blogging goals? Or yearly resolutions? What’s one goal you want to achieve this year?

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