Mid-Year Goal Check-In 

Hi Krista, Just a gentle reminder to make that doctor appointment. Please make it now and go before cold and flu season comes with germs in the office. Taking care of your health is one of the best gifts you can give yourself!! You are worth it! XO

You have such a great attitude and outlook on your goals! I feel like even doing these things once is an accomplishment

Definitely a good idea to hone in on the goals that are top priority!

Great job, Krista! I have way fewer goals than you lol and am doing pretty good. Write more letters: four so far! Donate more: ✔ Read books on shelves✔ Don't buy books this year😂FAIL! But I am unhauling books I've read and don't want anymore so🎉😊Feels good! Been fun. Been reading Bible more too (The Chosen has really helped!) and am planning on getting more involved at my church❤God bless, sister!

That is A LOT of goals! Hopefully you’re not feeling any pressure. I love watching your videos and find you to be authentic and wonderful at recapping books.

I loved your goal of wanting to write letters! Our society is missing out on such a lovely way to communicate. I'm in South Australia, so if you'd like to write, I promise I will write back.

Glad you don't beat yourself up over exactly meeting your goals. Go with the flow!

Nice video!

You're doing great! I consider even going to church being social lol Maybe I need to up my game! I also love goals. It's like something to look toward but yet not something that's going to change my life if I don't accomplish.

I love to listen to the Bible and follow along. I’m reading my Bible through this year also, and I know I would have gotten off track if I hadn’t been listening.

🎉🎉🎉hello there!! I've read, I think, 35 books so far. I finished two this week, which kinda got me out of a small slump. I started working again April 1st so my reading has slacked. St simons is AWESOME. Have a great time. Ephesians 6 is such a powerful chapter.

Silent book clubs are a lot of fun. I try to go once a month.

Hi Krista - ☀️ Congratulations on all your progress and accomplishments with your goals! You are quite inspiring. I appreciate your perspective not to stress over our goals. 😊📚

I love St. Simon's. If you get a chance to cross over to Jekyll Island, they have a sea turtle center and one side of the island is Driftwood Beach (it's beautiful!)

You're doing amazing! I love setting goals and tracking. Even if you don't meet them, you're usually still doing better than when you started :)

I honestly haven't looked at my goals to see how I'm doing on them. I'm a little bit nervous because I know I haven't been reading much the last couple of months. I hit a slump and it has just now started to go away. I'll have to check in on my goals and see how much (or how little) progress has been made.

I think you'll really like St. Simons, I do! If you can, go to Jekyll Island as well, it's really pretty!

The luau would count for July’s social challenge💕 I’m doing okay with my challenges, I have way less than you, but I’m starting to burn out. I was just thinking yesterday I’m going to cut back on them next year. They make me set monthly tbr’s and while it was fun last year and the first part of this year, my mood reading me wants to get back in control and I feel like it might be putting me into a slump. I just can’t abandon them now so I am making myself push on, but I feel like next year I’m going back to mood reading primarily. I think you’re doing great❤️

Thanks for the reminder that life won't end if I don't meet all my goals! I happen to look at mine today and I am doing ok. Definitely not adding more next year! In fact I may cut back a little. We will see!

Krista, you are amazing! I love your positive outlook. My biggest goal this year was to get rid of “stuff” I don’t need or use. I got rid of “sentimental” things like old gifts which meant so much to me when I received them. Now, I cannot even remember who gave them to me! This clean-out has been a completely positive experience. Most importantly, my two bestest friends (both in their 70’s) have health concerns, as do I. I try to touch base with them everyday. I need to do better with contact toward my other friends as well. Retirement is a busy time in life! 😂

I lost my journal with my list of goals, if that tells you anything. LOL financial goals are good, health goals are improving (today was day 1 training for a 5K run with my 12 yr old), letter writing is a flop. My reading goals this year have evolved. First I planned to only read 30 books and get a bunch of the big books off my tbr, then I changed it to 30 catholic books plus classics, then 30 catholic books including fiction catholic authors and classics. I'm around 20 from that growing catholic category and I lost count of the classic category. My tbr pile is huge. One of my booktubers mentioned a reading bingo and that might actually help get through my piles if I can find one in a similar reading style to mine.

I need to get back into goal setting.. even when we dont hit them they help motivate us! You are killing your reading goals!!

I recently watched a video about how to print book covers! The RU-vid channel is named JashiiCorrin and it was posted about a week ago. I'm sure there are plenty of others as well. On my birthday last year I made a list of books I wanted to read by my next birthday. Over the following month it rose to 45 books. I’m not going to finish them all unless I give up going whole hog into Series September and Victober (which I love to do). I've read 31 so I'm not doing too badly (69% and I still have some time). There are just so many interesting things to read. The BookTuber Qwordy, to celebrate her birthday (the same as yours), announced "The Hardest Reading Challenge You've Ever Done". I’m wondering if I can do it. Well, I'm not going to follow her rules and I'm changing a couple of her prompts/challenges so it's not really her challenge I'm doing but I'm hoping it will get me out of a rut. Her goal is primarily to promote independent authors. Mine is to try new things. Whether I do it or not it’s been fun planning. Thanks for the video! I always love goal check-ins.

I always enjoy your check-ins and love your no-stress approach with them. I used to have a goals of the year list and accomplishments of the year list back in my 20’s before children. Since then I have loose goals in my head but I forget them half of them time. 🤪 The last couple years I keep meaning to try having a few goals written down to see if that keeps me more organized. Maybe next year. 😆

I didn't even write down any of my non reading goals so I don't even remember what they were lol. So you're a step ahead of me!

Like all your goals, but like you said, if you don't achieve them successfully, that is okay it just fun to track them. I only make reading goals, I have the series goal and have achieve a lot, but still more to go, hopefully in Series September, I have read a lot off my shelves I like to put a goal of reading one non-fiction a month, but fell off that from May till now I also had a goal to read books recommended to me, I read 5 of them and I wanted to read some back list books from 4 authors and only read 1 book for each, I think next year only pick 2 of those authors. I read 14 Kindle books this year, wasn't a goal, but had to since some books have small print for me to read even with glasses. I do the Buzzword challenge. but missing two of them, if I find a book fits the prompt, but if I don't I am fine with that. Its just a fun thing to follow.

I will be surprised if you like the Everyone in My Family book. But you never know. I’m no longer setting reading goals. The only one I have is to read Cloud Cuckoo Land in memory of Alice and the Giant Bookshelf. It was one of her all time favorites. I am participating in the Bekah and Chloe thingee because I can choose books and your ketchupathon on my owned books.

I am not big on setting specific goals for myself, more like areas on which I’d like to give extra attention. I love watching your goals videos though.

I really like your categories, I agree, goals are good! I'm going to revisit this video in December/January. I try to keep too much in my "mind" and think I can remember everything 😂😂. Thanks for sharing and your transparency 💙

Even if you are failing on your various life goals at least your reading goals are on track 😅

I’m reading The One and Only Ivan for that Buzzwordathon prompt. 😊

Ooooh! I'm going to check out your "Their" because I need that one, too. And I like your "like" too! I'm with you on goals. Things that I want to do or not but no stress. 100%

I also had a goal of joining a real live book club and I finally did it, but it doesn't meet till Saturday Aug. 3. I hope all goes well. Maybe we can both achieve that one. Doctor Krista!😷😊

Great goals. I am going to try this next year. It may keep me more on track.

If you ever want to buddy read Their Eyes Were Watching God, let me know! I have that sitting unread on my shelves, and I'd love to get to it.

Is the craft kit cross stitch. If so I can help you. It’s relaxing, easy and you can listen to an auto book while stitching

Christmas Memory is a great book yhink its by Truman Compote.Has a little boy in it i think u would enjoy also made into a movie. Movie star Geraldine page. So heartwarming..Enjoy.

Krista, in the book world, author Eugenia Price is synonymous with St. Simons, GA. You probably know of her, but if not, check her out. She writes antebellum historical fiction and Christian non-fiction. The Beloved Invader, part of her St. Simons trilogy, is my favorite. I recently thrifted Eugenia Price’s South by Mary Bray Wheeler. If you can put your hand on a copy, take it along. It’s a great guidebook to her work and the area. Maps etc. 😊

Their Eyes Were Watching God was my January Buzzwordathon book - I loved it and it is so far my favorite book this year

I love to crochet but don't like the finishing - tying in ends, etc. So I have lots of UFOs *Unfinished objects. LOL

Okay, love the outlook on your goals 🎉

Great video as always. Have a great time this weekend. I’m praying about this.

I only have about 2 goals for the year. 1. To read at least 25 of my own personal library and 2. Do Chantels reading challange

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Would the mid Atlantic Booktube meetup count as social 😊

You could do a collab video for series September. 😊

Yellowface was okay. Not memorable for me. A really excellent historical fiction: Daughters of Shandong.

“Second half of the year” 😳 yikes!!!

Hi Krista! I've been going to the Richmond Book Club through MeetUp. I've really enjoyed it so far! In August we're reading The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hugo-but they choose a good variety of genres. I'll email you the meetup link details if you're interested .

Hi Krista. Where will I find your email address?. Tried replying to your comment, but it didn't go through.

your doing good. will you show us on camera how to do pictures when you find out?😀📙📘📗