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2025 Vision Board, Ins and Outs, & Reading Goals

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My vision board for 2025: goals, manifestations, and reminders for the new year!

There’s a screenshot on here that I love that keeps me mindful: “this is gonna take 3 years” / “the time will pass anyway”. The passage of time will always continue, and many things in life take time to achieve like personal growth/education/career goals. Time is the context for growth.

My ins and outs for the year

Ins:

  • Reading before bed
  • 8 hours of sleep
  • Consistent with barre/pilates
  • Leaning into hobbies that bring me joy
  • Prioritizing health
  • Being mindful of the present

Outs:

  • Mindless scrolling
  • Ubereats
  • Unnecessary spending
  • Sleeping at 2am

I really need to fix my circadian rhythm. After averaging 5-6 hours of sleep last year I’ve set a be-in-bed time at 10pm for the weekdays. Luckily, my latest class this semester ends at 8:15pm instead of 9:30pm so I have more time to wind down! Since I’ll have more free time (I’m only taking 4.5 credits), I’ll be reading a lot more!! I’ve set some realistic reading goals for the year. I was reading through some of my old blogs and I can’t believe there was I time that I read over 100 books a year. Who was that girl?? Where is she???

Reading Goals for 2025

  1. Read 24 books
  2. Read my shelf: for every new book I buy, I have to read one I already own first
  3. Listen to my audiobook shelf during my commute
  4. Finish the books I started last year!!
  5. Read more books with subtle asian book club

In case you missed it, I shared my 12 most anticipated books of 2025, so that makes up 12 of the 24 goal! The other 12 will be from books my shelf, books for sabc, books I’ve already started, and whatever else may pique my interest!

My biggest and recurring goal every year is to read my shelf. I own far too many books that I need to read but it’s hard when amazing books are coming out every year!! I had a severe impulse book buying habit but I’d like to think I’m doing a lot better now thanks to my limited free time haha. Nonetheless, I’m excited for all the new stories this year!

Thank you for reading!

2022 Reading Goals & Challenges

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Hello 2022! New year, same Nina excited for all the books to come. Last year I set a reading goal of 75 books and found it to be a bit stressful, so this year I’m setting a more manageable goal of 50 books! The goal? Expand my reading horizons while also tackling the books I already own.

I have quite a few books on my 2022 TBR already–48 to be exact! Every year I make a list of books I want and hope to read. Many of them are the year’s new releases I’m anticipating, but I actually never manage to read all of them so there’s plenty of leeway for my mood reads and the books I already own but haven’t gotten around to reading.

There’s one particular book on my TBR that has made an appearance on every list since 2019: Deathless by Catherynne Valente. I’ve been meaning to read it for such a long time and I’m fairly certain it’ll be my next favorite (not sure why I put off books I know I’ll love for so long). This is finally the year!

Most of the books on my TBR are 2022 releases so if you want to see what I’m excited for most, check out my 10 Most Anticipated Books of 2022!

2022 Reading Goals

  1. Read 50 books.
  2. Read my shelf: every month read one book I already own.
  3. Listen to one audiobook each month.
  4. Read two nonfiction books.
  5. Read more translated web novels.

New books are hard to resist, but this year I’m determined to make an effort to read the books I already own. I’m limiting myself to only buying six new physical books between now and December. The idea is for every two books I read from my own shelf, I get to buy one new book. I’ve always been a bit of an impulsive buyer; easily swayed by pretty covers, but I want to be more conscious and deliberate in the purchases that I make. One, because I don’t have any room, and two, to save money!

I also need to unhaul books because I have stacks and stacks everywhere–ARCs from publishers and my own impulsive buys that have been gathering dust. I plan on doing a giveaway as promised for the giant stack that reached my height, and also donating some to the Little Free Libraries in the area. As much as I’d love to keep all these books for my future personal library, they’re better off in other hands right now.

Last month I signed up for an Audible subscription to listen to Jade Legacy while working out, and I’m not sure if it was because of Andrew Kishino’s phenomenal narrating or some other reason but I developed a newfound love for audiobooks! I want to incorporate an audiobook into my monthly reading (it’ll also give me the motivation to go to the gym more consistently).

As an escapist reader, nonfiction is by far my least read genre, but I want to dip my toes into the water so I set a humble count of two: one memoir and one self-development. Maybe I’ll enjoy them enough to pick up more!

My final goal is to read more translated web novels. With the huge success of MXTX novels hitting the New York Time’s bestsellers, I’ve realized that it’s a largely untapped territory for me! I’ve watched the animated adaption of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation but I’ve never read any novels from this renowned author. Heaven’s Official Blessing is first on my list of many web novels.

12 Months 12 Recommendations Challenge

This challenge has been making rounds on bookstagram and booktwt these past few weeks and I wanted to join in on the fun! I have 12 months to read 12 recommended books. I asked booksta for recs and here were the results:

Thank you everyone for the recommendations!

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge – Tiffany @quilltreefox

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams – Bea @beamasalunga

Book Lovers by Emily Henry – Bernie @apaperbacklife

Into the Heartless Woods by Joanna Ruth Meyer – Stephanie @theespressoedition

The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson – Kingley @kingley.I

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa – Breana @milkyboos

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman – Naîma @bookish_loverr

Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim – Mimi @mimi_booknook

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano – Adriana @adri.mst

The Sweetest Oblivion by Danielle Lori (3 times) – Yasmine @yasminerahmani_

Wildcard by Marie Lu – Delalune @delalune_ma

Kafka on the Shore by Murakami – @not_vics_priv

It’s looking like a promising year for reading! I can’t wait to discover new favorite authors, books, and series. Did you set any reading goals or challenges?