Happy 2025 bookish peeps!
Who else feels like 2024 flew by?
It was a bit of a blur, particularly at the end, but I’m excited to be starting fresh in 2025. The start of a new year always feels good – life affirming and open to all the possibilities.
There are so many things I want to accomplish this year and positive changes I want to make in my life. I honestly can’t wait to get started and I’m looking forward to being able to share my progress along the way.
Not-so-bookish goals:
The usual resolutions:
- Renew my daily habit of spiritual practice – meditation, yoga, daily gratitude
- Eat more mindfully and exercise regularly
- Do more of what I love – being creative in any way, reading, blogging, connecting with my peeps
More detailed goals:
- Create a native garden and invite all the birds in
- Create meditative indoor and outdoor spaces in my home
- Learn more about holistic therapies – crystals, essential oils etc.
- Set up a cosy reading nook – design and build book shelves using Ikea flatpacks and buy the comfiest chair
- Travel near and far – take photos of everything
- Go on a Disney cruise with my daughter
Reading Goals:
- Read 75 books this year
- Read at least 6 – 7 books per month
- Read a little (or a lot) every day
- Listen to audiobooks every chance I get – in the car, around the house, walking the dogs
- Read only what interests me – don’t be afraid to DNF books that don’t
- Plan my reading/reading challenges
- Keep my TBR in check
- Use my reading tracker
Reading Challenges:
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 75 books
Non Fiction Reader Challenge: Non Fiction Grazer – 12 books
Audiobook Challenge: Marathoner 50+
Blogging Goals:
- Create a blogging schedule and stick to it
- Post 4-5 times a week consistently
- Participate in challenges/tags/memes
- Read, like, comment more
- Increase my subscribers to 300 (currently 251)
- Create social media accounts that link to my blog
And that’s them…my 2025 goals – personal, reading and blogging.
Have you set your goals for the year yet? Link your goal post or if you don’t have a post just let me know in the comments.
I look forward to sharing your reading journey in 2025.
I’ve set my goals as well! I’m going to doing yoga 3x a week this month and then a 30 day morning challenge on YouTube in February. My bookish goals are to go to two author talks and two library events that are not book clubs ( I always go to book clubs).
Your goals are great and I always DNF when I’m not feeling it so I encourage the same for everyone.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!!
Fantastic goals! I would love to do more (any) bookish events or join a book club but I’m so introverted I don’t even know where to begin. Maybe that should be a future goal.
Your “usual” resolutions are great. Mindfulness is something that I always strive for.
Our reading goal are similar. My goal is six books per month so I set Goodreads at 72.
I hope you achieve all your goals!
Thanks Carla! Good luck with your goal too.
Good luck with your goals! I need to be better about DNFing books that really are not for me. I almost always push through to the end and put myself in a reading slump. I don’t think I’m quite as bad with fiction books but I definitely try to keep going with nonfiction for some reason.
Maybe 2025 can be the year you DNF more of the books you aren’t getting anything out of. Good luck!