Antonia Bernardin

So, I did a post about my goals for the year: reading, writing and life related and I thought I’d reflect on how they went and maybe make some more realistic goals for next year.

These were my goals:

1. Pass my driving test
2. Pay off remaining debts (younger me was stupid)
3. Save up enough to be in the position to move out/ actually move out
4. Travel to Venice or Florence
5. Hit between 500-1000 followers on Tiktok and maybe Instagram
6. Read 50 physical books, with maybe a total of 100 including audio
7. Update this blog two-three times a week year round
8. Take my podcast further and hopefully start to earn money from the cool content we make
9. Finally, finally have a finished first draft of my WIP story 

So how did it go?

1. Passed in April!
2. Won’t lie, did the worst with this one but I’ve got a better plan for this year.
3. I had so many expected bills this year, let’s hope next year is better.
4. Err this is expensiveeee. Not sure when I’ll go there now.
5. Not much movement on this. 
6. The grand total for the year at this point is 73 books, 47 books and 26 audios. I still need to add up my sleep listens but I’m pretty happy with that total!
7. I have posted a minimum of twice a week, if not three times a week for almost the whole year, only missing a couple weeks here and there.
8. Podcast is doing well! Hopefully it will become a place we can earn side money soon.
9. The year was honestly so much busier than I was expecting, I’m hoping things will calm down now.

A lot of what I set out to achieve this year was a little unrealistic and to be honest, I’ve been working on taking better care of myself and breaking the burn out cycle I’ve been stuck in for years, so I had to let a lot of this go.

My 2024 goals

1. Pay off debts, or make significant strides towards fixing it.
2. Have savings!
3. Post regularly on Tiktok and Instagram, hopefully getting a few more followers along the way.
4. Continue to grow this blog, maybe find ways I can make some extra money through it, as it has just been a labour of love so far.
5. Same for the podcast really.
6. Work on my story once a week, I’m not setting word count goals or anything like that, I just want to start working on it regularly.
7. Hit 100 books in a year! With at least 50 of them being actual books.
8. Do more creative things, that aren’t ‘me work’ like this blog, writing or the podcast.