For the last few years I’ve been participating in the Goodreads Reading Challenge. Not that I need to be challenged to read, as I usually enjoy it, but after a multi-year spell of not doing much reading other than for graduate school & dissertation work, it was fun to do…
Category: Goals
Progress Monitoring: Checking In On My 2018 Reading Challenge
At the risk of turning this blog into a reading log… As I have for the past few years, in January I took the annual Goodreads Reading Challenge and set myself a goal of reading 30 books in 2018 (I also set a goal of running 300 miles in 2018,…
Resolving to Set Goals for 2018
As anyone who knows me well can tell you, I don’t buy into the idea of New Year’s resolutions. I find January a completely arbitrary time to change behaviors; after all, if you feel strongly enough about a habit or behavior to want to change it, why wait til January…
2016 By The Numbers: My Reading List
I’ve written in this space before about the importance of setting goals, both personally and professionally, and right around this time last year I was feeling a bit low and run down. Since I have always enjoyed reading, I thought setting a goal of reading a certain amount of books…
Arts Advisory Council: Year in Review & Looking Ahead
In my last post, I described the origins of my district’s Arts Advisory Council. This post describes how the first year of implementation went and how things may change in the year to come. The Past Year We planned to meet a total of 5 times this past year; we actually…