Last year, I set myself ten goals to achieve over the course of the year. Overall, I’m happy with the way the year turned out and I feel like I did pretty well with my goals, although I didn’t achieve all of them.
Below is the list of goals I set myself and how I faired on each one.
Goal One
The goal: Grow my two Facebook groups
The result: I started two new Facebook groups last year. The first one, Giveaways Galore, which is a group to share and enter giveaways, now has almost five hundred members. I’m really happy with the growth for this one.
The second group, The Writer’s Den, focuses on writing and for all it’s a small community of under one hundred people, I couldn’t ask for a better group. It’s a lovely, supportive place where we encourage each other and help each out with any problems or anything.
Goal Two
The goal: Complete and publish The Asylum Tour
The result: The Asylum Tour, which was a novel I started in late 2017, got finished and published in 2018.
Goal Three
The goal: Post daily to the blog
The result: I mostly posted daily to my blog except during holidays etc, which I’m counting as a success as I knew I wouldn’t be posting while I was on holiday.
Goal Four
The goal: Keep up with daily posts on Instagram and my Facebook page
The result: Again, with the exception of holidays, I did this and it’s definitely worth growing if you’re trying to grow either of those channels as it really boosted my reach.
Goal Five
The goal: Grow my social media followers by 50%
The result: I failed miserably on this one achieving only 43%. I’m consoling myself by accepting that I didn’t actually have a real strategy or anything in place for this one.
Goal Six
The goal: Write and publish Twisted Tales 3
The result: Twisted Tales 3 a collection of short dark stories was written and published. Incidentally, all three of the Twisted Tales books are only 99p and you don’t have to read them in any order. You can take a peek here. Is it even a blog post if you don’t plug something?
Goal Seven
The goal: Write and publish two non-fiction books.
The result: I achieved this one with Optimise Your Blog Like a Boss: The Beginner’s Guide to Getting Visible on Google and eBook Like a Boss: A Complete Guide to Writing and Selling a Profitable Non-Fiction eBook.
Goal Eight
The goal: Complete the April A-Z Challenge
The result: This is a blogging challenge where bloggers blog around a theme, posting each day in April (except Sundays) and each post relates to that day’s letter, so day one is A, day two is B etc. I have completed this challenge three times now and I love it.
Goal Nine
The goal: Complete #NaNoWriMo
The result: I hit the 50K word target and completed #NaNoWriMo. Now I just have to finish the novel as it’s going to be a fair bit longer than 50K words.
Goal Ten
The goal: Grow my income by 30%
The result: I am really pleased with this one. I grew my income by around 60% through book sales and freelance writing.
Did you achieve your 2018 goals? Let me know in the comments 🙂
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You did awesome on your goals. Congrats.
Thank you 🙂
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You did a great job. Very nice. #anythinggoes.
Great goals, I’m holding the same ones I had last year but I also added publish two books this year! #AnythingGoes
So excited for you with your books 🙂
Very impressive goals Deborah and you should be very proud of the results last year.
Great idea giving yourself goals, love that they are quantifiable too- really means you’ll know if you achieve them, great ideas #anythinggoes
Amazing achievement and wish you all the best for the new year X #anythinggoes
Thank you, you too x
Wow you did amazing. You should be so proud of yourself! I never know what numbers to aim for, so I just keep plugging away and hope it works out x
Thank you 🙂 Good luck for the year! x
Congrats on the achievements and all the best for 2019.
#AnythingGoes
Thank you, same to you 🙂
What a great year! Well done, Deborah #AnythingGoes
Thank you 🙂
Congrats on all your achievements in 2018! All the best for 2019. #AnythingGoes
Thank you, you too!
Wow you achieved so many of your goals in 2018. Here’s to a fruitful 2019 x #AnythingGoes
Thank you 🙂
You work hard but you get great success too – ththe income hike inspires me and many more I am sure #AnythingGoes
Thank you 🙂 It makes all the hours worthwhile when stuff comes together!
I didn’t make any real goals last year but I also didn’t achieve the ones I made. This year though I plan to stick to the goals I made. My main goal being that I finally face my fears about publishing and just do it. I even gave myself a deadline this time! Your Facebook group has helped a lot with that 🙂 #AnythingGoes
So happy to have helped 🙂 Good luck with your book, I can’t wait to read it!
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Sorry … #BloggerClubUK!!!
Well done on these goals! Pretty fabulous result. #BloggerClubUK
Thank you 🙂
And popping back from #BloggerClubUK
That’s amazing how many goals that you achieved, they are pretty impressive goals too! Well done
Revisiting via #BloggerClubUK – must do an ebook perhaps of my Dad’s naval memoirs to start with
Go for it!
Wow – posting daily is pretty impressive #bloggerclubuk
Congrats!! You’ve done so well #BloggerClubUK
Thank you 🙂
#BloggerClubUk You did really well and it is always nice to go back and see if you have achieved the things you set out for at the beginning of the year. 🙂
Thank you. It’s always good to check back
Its great to review the goals that you set and to look back at your success! I really need to do this too as its too easy to forget about all of the great stuff you have actually achieved! Heres to a successful 2019. #bloggerclub
It’s a great way to see how far you’ve come!
you had some good goals xx