Late Happy New Year - 2020 Goals!

Happy New Year everyone.

Hope you are all having a good start to the year.

Although it's not a great start World wise due to escalating conflict with USA and Iran.
More importantly the on going raging fires devastating Australia at the moment is an Environmental disaster.
Plus the future is uncertain due to Brexit.

Anyway a lot of what's happening can't be changed.

So I have a few plans and goals in 2020.

• Get Healthy  -  After the last few years being lazy and eating bad I have put on a stone or two.  So 2020 is the year I go back to the gym.  I also plan to eat better but not sure which direction to take.  Maybe Slimming World?  More on this later in the year.
• Walking/Hiking  -  As part of getting Healthy I am wanting to walk more and go on some hikes as there are some great walks around Yorkshire and Britain.  I plan on getting all the hiking gear too.

• Get Writing  -  After being published in 2018 in Reflections the Anthology from Cleckheaton Writing Group, the plan was to build on that.   In 2019 I did zero writing.  Basically laziness plus not in the right mind set.  This year I plan to write a few short stories and send stories to competitions and submissions.   I also want to finish the first draft of Colony X by September.

• Writing Group - 2019 I only attended Cleckheaton Writing Group once or twice but in 2020 I hope to attend once a month by booking a few hours holiday on the Monday it is on.  Hopefully will start this March time.
• Blogging  -  I am hoping to blog more in 2020 whether it is book and film reviews or reviews from Events like Edge-lit which I hope to attend in July.  I will also blog on topics such as "Feeling a fraud when it comes to writing", "Who I would like to write for".  Look out for these soon.

• Reading - 2019 was a disaster for me reading wise as much as writing was.  I only managed to read 4 books in 2019 which is bad.  So in 2020 my aim is to read 2 books a month which adds up to 24 books in 2020.  I'm not sure I will accomplish this with writing more and gym but will give it a good go.  To help I will watch less YouTube/Booktubes and will use Goodreads site to help keep count.
• Career - I hope for a career change in 2020 with better money preferably in writing or publishing in some capacity .