Meredith's Monday Musings: The New Year

Hi All!

Happy New Year! I seriously cannot believe that it’s already 2018. I feel like just yesterday we were celebrating the 2017 new year. Time sure flies by! 

Today’s Meredith’s Monday Musing is all about: the new year!

A lot changed for me in 2017. Some of the changes I foresaw happening such as: graduating college, getting a job, etc. Some other changes, I couldn’t predict such as: me self-publishing my first book. It’s been a crazy year, but overall I’m happy with it. I learned a lot of valuable lessons, some more painful than others, but as crazy as this sounds, I really feel like I grew this past year as a person. 

At the beginning of 2017, I read something about starting a “happiness jar”. Basically, whenever you did something that made you feel happy during the year, you wrote it down on a little slip of paper and put it in the jar. Then on New Year’s Eve, you read them. I thought this was a cool idea, so I did it. At first, I thought I wouldn’t have much to add to the jar, but boy was I wrong! It was pretty stuffed by the end of the year! ;-) 

I loved doing it so much, I’m going to do it again for 2018. Nothing like reading over your past happy thoughts at the end of the year to end on a happy, high note. ;-) 

With 2018 here, I’m trying to think about some goals I want to set for myself. I want them to be realistic. I’ve put a lot of thought into it and I really like the idea of setting a goal to release 1 new book, no matter the size, every 3 months. Now I know to some authors that sounds crazy and like I should be able to release a new book every 6 weeks. However, I’m a slow writer, I don’t pretend not to be and I also have a full time job. So, writing sometimes just won’t happen after I get home from a long day at work. 

My second goal for the new year is to read one book a month. Again, I know to some this sounds crazy! However, since I got my full time job and I’ve been writing, I just haven’t had much of a chance to read. Honestly, I miss it! One big factor why I became an author was because of how much I loved to read. So, I’m going to really try hard and keep that goal. 

That’s all the goals I’m going to set for myself as an author. I’ll probably set a couple of personal goals, but they’re personal, so I don’t want to go broadcasting them. 

That’s all I have for now. I hope y’all have an amazing New Year!