Making Time for Reading and Life: My Resolutions for 2015

As I sit down to write about my resolutions for 2015, I'm reminded that this is a year when I want to make time for both reading and living life. In 2014, I found myself spending more and more time reading, often at the expense of other activities like socializing with friends. Don't get me wrong, I love reading, but it's not always easy to strike a balance between enjoying books and engaging in other aspects of my life.

I've set a Goodreads goal for 2015 – 100 books, which is slightly higher than what I achieved last year (105). However, I'm not putting too much pressure on myself to meet this target. Instead, I want to focus on reading books that genuinely interest me, rather than trying to force myself to finish a certain number of pages each month. This will allow me to truly enjoy the stories and experiences that books offer, rather than feeling rushed or pressured.

One area where I'd like to see more improvement in 2015 is my social life. While I did manage to get out with friends on several occasions last year, I often found myself staying home to read instead of being fully present when I was out. This wasn't always intentional – sometimes I just got caught up in a good book and forgot about the world around me! However, I recognize that having a healthy balance between work, social life, and personal interests is essential for overall happiness.

To help me stay on track, I've set a goal to create more consistent content for my channel. Specifically, I'd like to upload at least two videos per week – one will be a "book Channel" video featuring book reviews and discussions, while the other will be an unboxing haul or another type of content. This will help me stay organized and ensure that my audience knows when to expect new videos from me.

Speaking of which, I'd love to hear from you! What types of videos would you like to see more of on my channel? For example, I'm thinking of doing a bookshelf tour for my 1,000-subscriber celebration – do you think this is something you'd be interested in watching? Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome, as they help me shape the content that resonates with you.

One area where I'd like to make some positive changes in 2015 is my health. While I'm not currently considered "overweight" by most standards, I have noticed a significant gain in weight since university began – largely due to poor eating habits and a lack of regular exercise. This has made me feel sluggish and tired, which is impacting my overall well-being.

To combat this, I've set a resolution to get healthier in 2015. This means making more conscious choices about what I eat, staying active through physical activity or other pursuits (like reading!), and prioritizing self-care activities that bring me joy. It won't be easy – I'll likely encounter setbacks along the way – but I'm committed to working towards a healthier, happier me.

Ultimately, my goal for 2015 is to enjoy the process of creating content around books and sharing it with fellow readers. I want to focus on building meaningful relationships with you all through my channel, whether that's through reviews, discussions, or simply being a part of a community that shares my passion for reading. By making time for both reading and living life, I hope to create content that feels authentic, engaging, and – above all – fun!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone it's Haley and today I am going to be kind of just sitting down and talking to the camera about my bookish resolutions for 2015 and also some of my kind of other resolutions because I'm hoping making this video will kind of be like a contract and it will make me stick with them so yeah I'm pretty much just right out of bed my hair is a mess and I'm just wearing sweater and pajamas and I just finished filming the first part for my unboxing book haul I'm kind of doing a compilation of unboxing this since there are going to be a bunch of packages coming in so stay tuned for that very soon I'm super excited about that because who doesn't love unboxing new books and watching videos about them it's just the best but anyways yeah I've seen a lot of these videos recently and I just kind of wanted to do one of my own so I'm doing it and happy New Year to you guys I'm very excited for what 2015 has in store for me which is hopefully good things hopefully was a very hard word for me to say just then so my kind of overall resolution with books and with my life is that just kind of want to get out of my comfort zone so I'm hoping to read more diverse books and just kind of not what I would usually read and I'm also hoping to get into sci-fi because sci-fi right now is probably my least favorite genre I'm just I'm I haven't found a Sci-Fi that I've like just Fallen absolutely in love with and I'm kind of hoping that in 2015 I can kind of find one that I love and kind of get more into the genre and everything so if you have some recommendations for good Sci-Fi um why a scii for me definitely leave them down below and I'm also going to be doing this kind of 2015 reading challenge um railen at padfoot and prong 07 she mentioned this in her 2015 resolutions video and I thought it seemed like a very cool idea so I'm going to be doing that so I will link the link to um to the challenge down below it's just something that she found on pop sugar I think is the website but it seems really cool there's like challenges like read a book that was written um in the year you were born like reita Pitzer Prize winner there's just really cool kind of challenges for you that kind of makes you step out of your comfort zone and I'm also hoping to do a lot of readathons in 2015 but I'm hoping to kind of take the pressure off of my reading um I found that when I was looking back on what I did in 2014 a lot of like what I did was just read books and I kind of like to more so live life but also read like I wasn't really going out with my friends as much as I usually would I did go out with my friends a lot but I kind of was just staying home and reading all the time and that's why I'm kind of my Goodreads goal at the moment is 100 books um for 2015 I read 105 in in 2014 but I'm not really putting that much pressure on myself I'll be happy if I read like 75 um I just don't want to be like speeding through books and then I don't really get to enjoy them as much so it is 100 right now but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it at that um just cuz I do want to be able to just enjoy books more it's not that I'm kind of putting pressure on myself it's just kind of when you're on book you kind of feel bad when you have a wrapup and you're like oh I read four books like that's why I'm not doing a December wrap-up because I have only read three books in December so I decided I just wasn't going to do a wrapup but I kind of want to take the pressure off of myself and just be reading for the fun of it and but also reading to be able to review and stuff if that makes sense and along that same line I need to focus on school more this semester I'm in my second semester of second year and I didn't really try as hard as I normally do in first semester because I was really just absorb in reading and just kind of being lazy and doing other things um and I was like working a lot so I think I need to kind of work still but then also really need to focus on school as well and make that like my top priority at the moment um so that doesn't mean I'm not going to be doing book anymore obviously not or reading anymore I'm obviously going to continue to do both of those things I just need to be more organized and have a plan for my book Channel channel so then I can know that I will have an video uploaded at least twice a week is what I'm shooting for so yeah um let me know if there are any certain videos that you guys want to see down below um I think for a 1,000 subscriber celebration I'm going to be doing a bookshelf tour so let me know if you would be interested in that and I think kind of My overall um bookish resolution is to just enjoy myself and read things that I want to read don't really put pressure on myself and just kind of make my channel a quality Channel and kind of make sure I'm giving my opinion which I always have been but I don't want to stray away from that um always give my opinion just kind of and make sure this is still something that I love doing um and my definite definite resolution is to get healthy I'm not like super unhealthy but I kind of am I don't really eat that well and I've just since University started I kind of gained a lot of weight so I'm hoping to kind of lose that wait and just be happier and stuff yeah so um I guess that's all for my resolutions video I'm sorry if this was kind of boring and kind of serious but like I said there will be an unboxing haul actually there's going to be two because I I have a book Outlet unboxing haul as well um and then also kind of my compilation like unboxing haul um cumulative yeah cumulative Collective is the word I'm looking for my Collective unboxing haul will be coming to you guys very soon so yeah I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I hope you're excited for 2015 and what it has in store for the book world and for my channel specifically um there will be a giveaway at some point in 2015 um maybe around February I'm just not in like the financial position right now to do one just with school and everything I know I just spot books but I had gift cards so it's fine um but yeah um let me know what you guys want from my channel in 2015 and I will try my very hardest to make it happen for you guys because I'm doing this for myself but also obviously for my viewers because without you I would just be talking to a camera right now and no one would be watching this so yeah I hope you guys liked this video and I'll talk to you guys soon byehey everyone it's Haley and today I am going to be kind of just sitting down and talking to the camera about my bookish resolutions for 2015 and also some of my kind of other resolutions because I'm hoping making this video will kind of be like a contract and it will make me stick with them so yeah I'm pretty much just right out of bed my hair is a mess and I'm just wearing sweater and pajamas and I just finished filming the first part for my unboxing book haul I'm kind of doing a compilation of unboxing this since there are going to be a bunch of packages coming in so stay tuned for that very soon I'm super excited about that because who doesn't love unboxing new books and watching videos about them it's just the best but anyways yeah I've seen a lot of these videos recently and I just kind of wanted to do one of my own so I'm doing it and happy New Year to you guys I'm very excited for what 2015 has in store for me which is hopefully good things hopefully was a very hard word for me to say just then so my kind of overall resolution with books and with my life is that just kind of want to get out of my comfort zone so I'm hoping to read more diverse books and just kind of not what I would usually read and I'm also hoping to get into sci-fi because sci-fi right now is probably my least favorite genre I'm just I'm I haven't found a Sci-Fi that I've like just Fallen absolutely in love with and I'm kind of hoping that in 2015 I can kind of find one that I love and kind of get more into the genre and everything so if you have some recommendations for good Sci-Fi um why a scii for me definitely leave them down below and I'm also going to be doing this kind of 2015 reading challenge um railen at padfoot and prong 07 she mentioned this in her 2015 resolutions video and I thought it seemed like a very cool idea so I'm going to be doing that so I will link the link to um to the challenge down below it's just something that she found on pop sugar I think is the website but it seems really cool there's like challenges like read a book that was written um in the year you were born like reita Pitzer Prize winner there's just really cool kind of challenges for you that kind of makes you step out of your comfort zone and I'm also hoping to do a lot of readathons in 2015 but I'm hoping to kind of take the pressure off of my reading um I found that when I was looking back on what I did in 2014 a lot of like what I did was just read books and I kind of like to more so live life but also read like I wasn't really going out with my friends as much as I usually would I did go out with my friends a lot but I kind of was just staying home and reading all the time and that's why I'm kind of my Goodreads goal at the moment is 100 books um for 2015 I read 105 in in 2014 but I'm not really putting that much pressure on myself I'll be happy if I read like 75 um I just don't want to be like speeding through books and then I don't really get to enjoy them as much so it is 100 right now but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it at that um just cuz I do want to be able to just enjoy books more it's not that I'm kind of putting pressure on myself it's just kind of when you're on book you kind of feel bad when you have a wrapup and you're like oh I read four books like that's why I'm not doing a December wrap-up because I have only read three books in December so I decided I just wasn't going to do a wrapup but I kind of want to take the pressure off of myself and just be reading for the fun of it and but also reading to be able to review and stuff if that makes sense and along that same line I need to focus on school more this semester I'm in my second semester of second year and I didn't really try as hard as I normally do in first semester because I was really just absorb in reading and just kind of being lazy and doing other things um and I was like working a lot so I think I need to kind of work still but then also really need to focus on school as well and make that like my top priority at the moment um so that doesn't mean I'm not going to be doing book anymore obviously not or reading anymore I'm obviously going to continue to do both of those things I just need to be more organized and have a plan for my book Channel channel so then I can know that I will have an video uploaded at least twice a week is what I'm shooting for so yeah um let me know if there are any certain videos that you guys want to see down below um I think for a 1,000 subscriber celebration I'm going to be doing a bookshelf tour so let me know if you would be interested in that and I think kind of My overall um bookish resolution is to just enjoy myself and read things that I want to read don't really put pressure on myself and just kind of make my channel a quality Channel and kind of make sure I'm giving my opinion which I always have been but I don't want to stray away from that um always give my opinion just kind of and make sure this is still something that I love doing um and my definite definite resolution is to get healthy I'm not like super unhealthy but I kind of am I don't really eat that well and I've just since University started I kind of gained a lot of weight so I'm hoping to kind of lose that wait and just be happier and stuff yeah so um I guess that's all for my resolutions video I'm sorry if this was kind of boring and kind of serious but like I said there will be an unboxing haul actually there's going to be two because I I have a book Outlet unboxing haul as well um and then also kind of my compilation like unboxing haul um cumulative yeah cumulative Collective is the word I'm looking for my Collective unboxing haul will be coming to you guys very soon so yeah I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I hope you're excited for 2015 and what it has in store for the book world and for my channel specifically um there will be a giveaway at some point in 2015 um maybe around February I'm just not in like the financial position right now to do one just with school and everything I know I just spot books but I had gift cards so it's fine um but yeah um let me know what you guys want from my channel in 2015 and I will try my very hardest to make it happen for you guys because I'm doing this for myself but also obviously for my viewers because without you I would just be talking to a camera right now and no one would be watching this so yeah I hope you guys liked this video and I'll talk to you guys soon bye\n"