Writing – What didn’t go well

• • • I have only 11 followers in Kindle Vella for Sparrows Legacy. With 29 thumbs up.
    • I only had 6 followers in KV for Soldiers-In-Arms.  With 4 thumbs up.
    • My FB followers are +900 but I’m still not seeing any conversion for readership.
    • Journaled haphazardly.  Will be tracking this more closely in 2024

Writing – What am I working toward? 

In order of importance:

• • • Publish 1 e-book, if not 2. Post 2 more Kindle Novels (JAN and AUG)
    • Add 52, weekly blogs.
    • For my own guilty pleasure, I’ll be adding poems to Twitter.
    • Create a video(s) -Youtube or Canva shorts.  At least 10.
    • Begin an E-course for the PLOTTR tutorial.

Exercise – What went well?

My entire tracking began when I decided to lose weight.  I bought a Hero’s Journey book to track my daily health and fitness goals.  And I bought a lifetime subscription to the Fabulous App.  I have slowly been becoming fabulous.

• • • Mirror Time – 15 sessions for LuluLemon Mirror (Strength, Dance, Cardio, Stretch, Bar, Boxing, Yoga, and Pilates).  Way down.  I think I did more Meditation and Meta Quest Saber Beat routines that were not tracked though. 
    • Duolingo –3000 + minutes (Spanish)
    • Dumbbell weights 15 lbs 3 days a week, 3 lbs 3 days a week mostly from Jan to Mar, then died out.
    • Weight watching – started 2023 192lbs, currently weight 202lbs. This is not working.  I did fasting all year and obviously, my diet is a mess.
    • Steps average 3000-5000 four days a week, my Garmin stopped working so I bought an Apple Watch and cannot figure out the steps history so I’m going to guess I walked about 100 miles this year which is actually down from last year.
    • Sleep average of 7.50 hours a night.  I still need deep sleep.  I’ve started meditation.
    • Meditation – 59 sessions for 397 minutes (average length 7 minutes)
    • Vitamins – taken daily for the whole body, which includes multi-vitamins, eyes, calcium, GNC Vitapak® Program 50 Plus, and Prevagen.  This habit is in place.  I might stop tracking it.  I stopped hot-flash meds and moved to HRT estrogen patches for the next 3 years.
    • Logged 4 days a week (average) JAN through JUN daily goals in my Hero’s Journal.  Lost my journal during a move.  Lost part of the year of journaling.  Super bad. 

Exercise -What didn’t go well?

• • • I am not doing cardio as well as I’d like.  I had a leg injury and am still in PT as of DEC.  
    • Walking dogs is still off the chart.  See above injury.
    • I gained weight.  I haven’t tracked days of workouts either.  I need to be more diligent.

 Exercise – What I’m working toward.

• • • I’m still tracking my habits and increasing my strength training program.  I should track my food and exercise workouts.
    • I need to walk and train my dogs in 2024.
    • I want to improve my deep sleep pattern.  I bought an Apple watch and I’m figuring things out.

Work – What went well?

• • • Completed Legacy Leader course.
    • Onboarded a couple of co-workers.
    • Integrated another dept into our ServiceNow support.

Work – What didn’t go well?

• • • I did not finish my AI training like I wanted. 
    • No promotion. My overall review was not good with my supervisor.  He felt I was not focusing on the right priorities.  This issue has been resolved by his removing all my projects.  Horrible year, basically.   
    • No raise due to the “needs improvement” rating by my supervisor.  No closer to 7 figures.

Work – What am I working toward in 2024?

• • • Increasing LinkedIn Learning coursework quantity.  I should get more than 7 certificates a year.
    • Going to finish my Coursera UIPath training. And do some additional projects on GitHub with this application.  
    • Following an AI Learning path on CodeAcademy.com toward AI automation.

Summary:

The year’s review is complete.  With these three areas of Writing, Exercise, and Work, I am attempting to move me toward a better me.  I’m using habit tracking, automation reminders,  and atomic habit improvement to sustain my progress or improve upon it.  I focused on emotional improvement more than physical improvement, and it did not seem to help keep my health and outlook positive, so I’m going to shift my focus to physical in 2024.  I’m doing quite well on reading more self-improvement books and reading in general.  Check out that article here to see what I read this year.  I still feel a bit exposed about sharing this type of information with others, but now that it’s out there I can see why James Clear submitted it for public review.  It is quite freeing and binding to my commitments at the same time.  I’m interested in any feedback but still don’t expect much.  I really only have 54 followers, more or less.  Tons on Twitter and FB, but my websites have a low volume of visitors.  I was thinking of adding a relationship category of some kind as I’m still single and hate it.  But I need to figure out how to improve that part of my life and still do all these other things, lol.  Hopefully, someone who is interested in some of these habits and lives nearby and decides to pursue reaching out…will happen soon.  I’m taking one day at a time about that.  I’m also working on improving the messy layout of this review.  I want it to be easier to read and write. 😀 Anyway, Happy New Year!  See you in 2024.

Jeanne Nicholas

End-of-Year Reflections: Use motivational memes to really rock your day.  I look them up daily just to get me in the right mood.