What a good idea. My goals last year related to books; they were not that specific; get more out of my house and organize the bookshelf so I could find things.
I've done both things partially; I later decided that getting 500 books out was a number to aspire to, and I did remove 343. I am making 500 the goal for 2019 as well, and more importantly, continue noting the number of books I move on in a list on my computer. Watching those numbers go up was more encouraging than I thought it would be.
I have also pulled all the books from my double-shelved bookcase wall, shelf by shelf (a lot of my discards came from the back shelves) entered everything in the back shelf in my LibraryThing account with a shelf location tag - south wall back three west, for instance - so now I can search LT and find the books I cannot see on shelves but know where they are. I also took this time to get at least some authors organized with their books together. It's all a work in progress, but helpful things have happened.
For 2019 I hope to
1. Move 500 books out of my house 2. Organize the east wall bookcases. There are three, and some of them are double-shelved. I'd like to get everything here in LT because some of the shelves are hard to get to; computer desks are in front. 3. Continue efforts to clean up and organize data files; mostly articles that I saved from various sources. Many are not even sorted by topic. They are just in the monthly downloads and not really findable. I plan to do a fair amount of editing also, but I need to push myself to let go of stuff I think is interesting but I will probably not read again. 4. Think and write about why I save so much written material. I used to keep Morning Pages, and I have started them again; bits and pieces of why I save stuff has been showing up there every now and then; I may eventually try to think and write more deeply about it.
It's all about written material, but I have proved this year I can do some of this, so I will work on it next year. Number 4 is a bit of a stretch, I am not sure I want to go that deeply into why I save written material, but I think an aspiration can result in some action, even if it is not completed. My 500 book goal is an example.
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I've done both things partially; I later decided that getting 500 books out was a number to aspire to, and I did remove 343. I am making 500 the goal for 2019 as well, and more importantly, continue noting the number of books I move on in a list on my computer. Watching those numbers go up was more encouraging than I thought it would be.
I have also pulled all the books from my double-shelved bookcase wall, shelf by shelf (a lot of my discards came from the back shelves) entered everything in the back shelf in my LibraryThing account with a shelf location tag - south wall back three west, for instance - so now I can search LT and find the books I cannot see on shelves but know where they are. I also took this time to get at least some authors organized with their books together. It's all a work in progress, but helpful things have happened.
For 2019 I hope to
1. Move 500 books out of my house
2. Organize the east wall bookcases. There are three, and some of them are double-shelved. I'd like to get everything here in LT because some of the shelves are hard to get to; computer desks are in front.
3. Continue efforts to clean up and organize data files; mostly articles that I saved from various sources. Many are not even sorted by topic. They are just in the monthly downloads and not really findable. I plan to do a fair amount of editing also, but I need to push myself to let go of stuff I think is interesting but I will probably not read again.
4. Think and write about why I save so much written material. I used to keep Morning Pages, and I have started them again; bits and pieces of why I save stuff has been showing up there every now and then; I may eventually try to think and write more deeply about it.
It's all about written material, but I have proved this year I can do some of this, so I will work on it next year. Number 4 is a bit of a stretch, I am not sure I want to go that deeply into why I save written material, but I think an aspiration can result in some action, even if it is not completed. My 500 book goal is an example.