A February Resolutions Update

Mars Taylor
Feb 26, 2022
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Hi! In January, I set some goals and said I would update the blog as they’re achieved (or as I make progress). Since it’s the end of February, here’s how I’m doing!

Side note: While all of this has been going on, I’ve been playing way too much Genshin Impact. After all these years, I finally got my first five star (Yae Miko) and unlocked Inazuma!

LITERARY GOALS (1.5/3)

Read at least 20 books. As of February 26th, I’ve read 9 books so far. That means I’m almost halfway there for the year! I’ll count this as .5 of a goal.
Read at least one book of the month from Book Lovers Club on Discord (link). This is kind of happening? I have two days to finish Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. It’s really good so far, I just need to focus!
Clean out my Goodreads to be read list. Bad news on this one. It’s currently 1,686 books long. That’s twenty more on top of not removing any. (Link for my Goodreads)

PROFESSIONAL GOALS (1/3)

Change my pseudonym to something more fitting. I did this! I go by Mars Taylor now!
Write the first draft of a novel. I’m still trying to pick one project for this.
Post on this blog at least twice a month. So my intentions with this one was good. Honestly it was. However, school is kicking my butt and I might have to scale this back to one monthly post.

ACADEMIC GOALS (2/3)

Pick a major that makes me happy. I did this too! I’m a Communications major hoping to get my masters in Library Science after this.
Grow my LinkedIn network. I added two people; one was my editor for a web zine and the other was my mom. Thanks, mom.
Continue learning Spanish. All I want is for Duolingo to give me my family back…so I should definitely start learning again.

WELLNESS GOALS (1/2)

Meditate at least every other day. I’m still using the Balance app (link). I really need to get back to this!
Continue tracking my health through Apple Health and/or Fitbit. My Versa 2 broke so I’m completely done with Fitbit. Instead, I’m using Apple Health and MyFitnessPal. I’ve been pretty consistent!

PERSONAL GOALS (1/2)

Make some new friends. I’m kind of making friends? I reconnected with some old ones, so I’ll count that
Go on at least one date. I came so close! And then we decided that we were mutually disinterested.

The final count for my goals is….*drumroll* 6.5 out of 13. I’m literally halfway there! Now if only there were 48 hours in a day so I could blog regularly, read a million books, and have a bustling social life. I think I‘ll keep wishing for that.

Happy Saturday, and feel free to tell me how your resolutions are going in the comments!