I have a file named “A Catalogue of all I’ve read since September 5, 2006” on my hard-drive. In it, I have listed every book that I’ve read since, well, September 5, 2006. Two years ago. I don’t remember the precise events surrounding the formation of my goal, but for whatever reason, I decided to attempt to read every book in my local library (Eiseley Branch). In order to track my progress, I created that file.<\/p>\n
Periodically, I tabulate the number of books I’ve read and record them at the bottom of the file–just so I can see what I’ve read, where I’ve been. I’ve written about it before<\/a>, so I won’t bore you with the details. Instead, without further ado, my 2 year numbers:<\/p>\n
TOTALS as of 9-5-2008 (729 days-2 YEARS)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n| \tJuvenile Picture <\/td>\n | 86<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tJuvenile, First Read<\/td>\n | 24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tJuvenile, Chapter<\/td>\n | 71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tJuvenile Fiction<\/td>\n | 126<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tJuvenile Nonfiction<\/td>\n | 49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tYoung Adult<\/td>\n | 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tJuvenile CD<\/td>\n | 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tJuvenile DVD<\/td>\n | 15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tJuvenile Video<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tFiction<\/td>\n | 175<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tNonfiction<\/td>\n | 325<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tAudio Cassette<\/td>\n | 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tAudio CD<\/td>\n | 34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tDVD<\/td>\n | 24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tPeriodicals<\/td>\n | 30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \tTotal<\/i><\/td>\n | 976books<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \t\t<\/td>\n | 1.34 books per day<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n | I’m pretty proud of my progress–although bummed that my average has dropped (by almost a tenth of a book per day) and that I fell short of 1000 in my first two years. I mean, seriously, I was 24 books short. I could have easily exceeded that had I finished all the books I started but took back to the library before finishing when I left for Mexico. If I didn’t have the “do one project” rule for craft books, I could have exceeded it on quilting books alone. (And we’re talking read. As in, every word of text. Not just looking at pictures. I have another file that tells which craft books I’ve read and has pictures of potential projects to do out of them.)<\/p>\n When was the last time you checked up on a goal? Take a little time to assess your progress. Celebrate how far you’ve come. And grab another book (or pick up your quilt or take a walk or whatever that goal might be) and keep going!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a file named “A Catalogue of all I’ve read since September 5, 2006” on my hard-drive. In it, I have listed every book that I’ve read since, well, September 5, 2006. Two years ago. I don’t remember the precise events surrounding the formation of my goal, but for whatever reason, I decided to … Read more Two Year Anniversary: The Stats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[929],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |