Hey everyone! I hope everybody had a great New Year! I stayed up til 11:30, but fell asleep just minutes shy of 2024. Oh well. There’s always next year, I guess. Today, I’m reflecting on the past year, as well as setting goals for the year to come. 2023 was crazy for a lot of reasons, and my own life was no exception. This year, I’m hoping to add a layer of stability to my routine and get some writerly things done! What Did I Do in 2023?In the school world, I have done a ton of coursework, heavily invested myself in the Honors College, secured an internship for the spring of 2024, made the Dean’s List (twice) and then I became a double major! God has helped me through my academic career, and I’m so thankful for all the opportunities he’s given me in the college world. A more detailed version of what went on during my school days starts back in the spring, when I did my first semester of Honors coursework. It was a hard semester and there were times when my worldview was put to the test. But I stuck it out, and wound up with four As and one irritating B (thanks, Biology). In the summer, I started working on courses for my Classics minor, including a rigorous month-long class on medical terminology. Over the summer, I also decided to add history as another major. I am very passionate about history and especially ancient history. This fall, I did classes in British literature, technical writing, and early Russian history, which was really neat and inspiring to me. Overall, it was a good year. In the writing world, I’ve also made a lot of headway in building a platform and putting my work out there. Perhaps the biggest accomplishment is that I finally finished the first draft of my first full-length novel, Heart of an Elf! I finished it in July and have spent the better part of the year editing it, fine-tuning it, and just stressing over minute details that will probably be deleted after it goes through official edits. In other writing news, I published my third article with the Rebelution this year; this time, on how a popular social media trend is spiritually and mentally harmful to us women. You can read the article here. I also published my first fiction work this year! You can find my ~5K contemporary short story, Bench Seat Buddy, in Seize the Moment, an anthology celebrating God’s mercy and forigveness. You can order a copy of Seize the Moment here. As for all my other 2023 goals… I finished my Goodreads reading challenge of 200 books, ending the year with a whopping 215 books! (Yes, a few of them were comic book collections, but hey, they’re books read.) I didn’t hit the target with my Bible reading goal or my exercise goal, but I did stay partially consistent when I was working on them. Overall, 2023 taught me a lot, and I think it was a productive and amazing year. Looking Ahead to 2024…I made a list of yearly goals I hope to accomplish - and it got to a point where they’re now subcategorized. Here are just a few of those goals…
January 2024 GoalsI don’t have a lot of month-specific goals, especially since my months tend to blend within each other during the school semester, but here are my plans for January:
And that's it for now. What are some of your 2024 goals? Let me know in the comments!
Until next time, ~Cate
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Cate
1/4/2024 12:07:01 pm
Thanks Kat! Same to you!
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