OK, you’ve convinced me! I already have several reading related goals but I still end up reading less than I mean to so I was thinking I should make a book reading goal for 2024.
My books read per year graph makes it perfectly clear that I can read at least 50 books a year even when my life is busy and I don’t want next year to be another gentle downhill on this roller coaster of a graph, let’s get some more climbing in!
I’ve found myself falling prey to the ‘save it until the new year’ syndrome though. I currently have several half read books and if I hold off on finishing them until January then I’ll get an easy start to 2024… but that’s obviously utter cheaty nonsense and I’d rather have a strong end to 2023!
So I’ve made a books goal with a rate that equates to 50 books/year with an immediate start.
This is the kind of goal where I’m happy to add fractions, like 0.2 for having read 20% of the book, but just not to put in the full 1.0 for the book until it’s actually finished, so… well at this point I was trying to work out an argument for the few days of buffer I was giving myself to start but since I’ve just admitted to having several partly read books lying about that I can use to make immediate inroads into the graph I’ve ratcheted them all away and made myself start with a beemergency.
Best go and do some reading! 
