Antonia Bernardin

I’ve done these for a couple years now and they are fun to look back on, and for some reason people read them so, here we go.

Read last year’s post here and 2023’s post here

My 2024 goals were:

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.

Here’s the thing, this year I started two different new jobs and, as the person I am dating lives in London, I spend a lot of my weekends away from my home. Alongside full time work, trying to stay active and have a social life, plus running this blog and my podcast.

That’s a lot of things. So, I had to pick between taking care of myself and the stuff I was hoping to achieve. I’ve worked pretty hard to be as healthy as I can be, even with the extra stress.

Consequently, growing the Tiktok/ Instagram, writing and even pursuing more creative things, had to be let go in order to give myself a little grace. We’ve even made the decision to pause the podcast for a while.

The positives:

• Hit my reading goals
• Grew the blog, a lot! This has gone from 12,000 views to over 47,000.
• Working on paying stuff off
• Got a concrete plan for moving out in 2025

2025 goals

I’ve done my reading goals in detail in another post but essentially: 100 books again. As for the rest:

• Move out!
• Keep growing and hopefully make some money from this blog
• Do more ARC reading/ review more indie books on here
• Keep working on those debts
• Grow my tiktok/instagram
• Really begin writing those books I’ve always dreamed about writing.
• Restart my duo lingo
• Continue working out consistently and eating in a more balanced way.

Maybe that’s a lofty list, I think I’ve kept things fairly flexible, it’s more about a direction to point myself than a pass/fail situation.

What are your goals?