I don't usually make New Year's resolutions because experience tells me I'm bad at keeping them and they don't make any difference to what happens in the year. This year is a little different in that I did make a few resolutions, most of them are private. One resolution, however, might as well be public as it might encourage me to stick to it. I resolved to read more.
During 4 weeks last year (our holiday in Costa Rica and the Christmas break) I read more books than I could remember reading in the whole of the rest of the year. I didn't want 2010 to pass with such a poor reading record.
Being a Christian the first thing to do was to resolve to read more of the Bible. I've never read the whole thing so that's part of the resolution; 1 chapter a day and keep a checklist of the chapters I've read. At that rate I should have covered the whole Bible (all 1189 chapters or so) in about 3 and a quarter years (Thursday, 4 April 2013 to be precise).
Having set a chapter target for the Bible I though I might as well do the same for other types, and so I ended up with 3 more categories; work, serious and fun.
So, am I sticking to it? Almost. The results so far (stats courtesy of Google spreadsheets and forms):
| Bible | Work | Fun | Serious | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target, chapters per day | 1 | 0.5 | 4 | 0.5 |
| Target, total to date | 49 | 24.5 | 196 | 24.5 |
| Actual, total to date | 32 | 32 | 307 | 25 |
| Actual, chapters per day | 0.65 | 0.65 | 6.27 | 0.51 |
| Progress | 65% | 131% | 157% | 102% |
| Required year rate | 1.05 | 0.48 | 3.65 | 0.5 |
| 30 day catch up rate | 1.57 | 0.25 | 0.3 | 0.48 |
| Number of different books | 4 | 7 | 8 | 4 |
2 comments:
That article really should have been called 'The Ballad of Reading Goal'...
Do you have a clear boundary between Fun and Serious, or is there a de facto grey area?
Fun is usually fiction and serious is usually non-fiction - but there is a bit of cross over. I have no hard and fast rule.
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