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| Olivia, the Evil Queen, sitting on her throne, Surveying her domain. |
I know I'm a month late in that greeting, but by now we ALL know that I'm slow. So slow that I can got MONTHS between posts, which is no good, I know.
I didn't really set myself any concrete goals in January, other than to win the DietBet I had joined, so that made it very easy to accomplish my non-existant goals.
How did I do? Lets see.
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Health Journey
Trying once again to drop the 100 pounds I need to get rid of.
The good news is I managed to lose 10.2 pounds!
The bad news is that I managed to throw out my right hip doing a specific workout program, which is probably going to be a hindrance
Reading Accomplished
I set a goal for myself of reading 60 books this year. This is the 3rd year I set the same goal on Goodreads. The first year I bypassed it. The second year I missed it. We'll see how I average out with this year.
In January I read 4 books:
- Midnight by Dean Koontz
- Midnight Crossroads by Charlaine Harris
- The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
- Hot Six by Janet Evanovich
Reviews will be posted of these and my other 2021 reads on Noner's Bookmarks.
Online Earnings
I use a few different places to try to earn money online. This is what I made in January.
- $10 in Swagbucks
- $3 in MyPoints (Didn't request because I'm saving for a higher payout)
- $10 cashout in My Achievement (earnings over several months).
- $2.86 profit for winning a DietBet
- $3.89 for a sale in the An Eclectic Aesthetic shop.
- $15 from Pinecone Research (in the form of an Uber giftcard)
- $25 from NCPonline (earnings over several months, in form of amazon gift card)
So I was paid out $69.75 in January, not counting earnings that did not qualify for an actual payout.
FEBRUARY GOALS
Okay, time to set some concrete goals.
1. Despite having hurt my hip this past week, I intend to lose another 10 pounds this month. I'll be counting my calories, pushing for at least 20k steps a day and working out 5 days a week even if it has to be a seated workout due to my
2. February is one of the months where the Ultimate Blog Challenge takes place, so I intend to blog every day this month. I need to post my links in the UBC facebook group, visit and comment other blogs and try to re-build some kind of readership here.
3. Every month can't be a $70 month, but I'm aiming for at least $50 this month. This means I have to spend time working on my survey sites and listing more items for sale on my facebook page and in my shop.
You got a lot accomplished in January! Good for you.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I just don't feel very accomplished.
DeleteLooking forward to seeing more of your posts this month. Keep us posted on you progress with your other goals
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'll have to use the blog to keep myself accountable. I'll have eyes on my if I slack off.
Deletereading your post inspires me to keep trying to exercise, and to keep at all those online earning sites i use too..
ReplyDeleteall four authors are ones i am yet to read (surprising, considering i read a lot) unless you count stephen king's short story that became the movie shawshank redemption and his nonfiction - on writing
I'm happy if I can continue to inspire you. I passionately hate exercsie. "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" totally counts as having read some King. I love that movie as well.
DeleteI also wrote about restarting but mine is like scratching many of the last months and calling February 1 a restart. I like that you posted your goals and your income etc. Keep up the good work it can only get better.
ReplyDeleteI do hope it continues to grow. It's rare that I have months where I earn that much online, and my online earnings are my only "fun" money.
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