# shanaqui's Beeminder Journal: 2023

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaquis-beeminder-journal-2023/10700>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [January 1, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaquis-beeminder-journal-2023/10700 "2023-01-01T20:19:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaquis-beeminder-journal-2023/10700/2 "2023-01-01T20:19:41Z")

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## Derailments:

- None yet!

## New goals:

- [/bibliophibianorbust](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/bibliophibianorbust) - To post three times per week on my blog (which might be reviews or other features that come up, it doesn’t matter). Tracked with RSSminder.
- [/meditationminutes](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/meditationminutes) - Starting with a rate of 7 minutes/week, and adding +2/week each week. I’ve already set the increase to 9 minutes/week for next week. I expect to do more than 1 minute/day most days, but hopefully this will help me to slowly build up a meditation practice. I’ll add an autoratchet once I have a feel for how likely I am to overachieve.
- [/moredaysthannot](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/moredaysthannot) - For exercising more days than not in the year ahead! Even the bare minimum counts.
- [/2023reading](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/2023reading) - Tracking the number of books read this year, via StoryGraph, since Adam got me hooked up with the ‘books’ metric instead of pages!

## Changes to existing goals:

- [/stepitup](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/stepitup) - I’ve got this going again, and told the autodialler it has a minimum setting now, so hopefully that will help. Again, starting with baby steps, just 1000 steps a day, hoping that the autodialler will help me ratchet up the difficulty to the right kind of level.
- [/intensityminutes](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/intensityminutes) - Same, this now has a minimum setting on the autodialler, and I’ve manually set it to 10 minutes/day.

## Project Bookminder:

_I make goals for various books from my backlog that I would like to read and could use a nudge on. These are flat for at least 8 days when started, and then every time they’re down to 7 days remaining, I add more flat spot. This way, I regularly have to interact with them, to ensure they stay top-of-mind. I aim to have 15 of those at once. Goals that are in progress have a rate of 5 pages/day, and an autoratchet so I can never have more than a day’s buffer._

- [/splitting](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/splitting) - For reading Amanda Ellison’s _Splitting: The Inside Story on Headaches_. I started it before making the goal, so it’s a 5/day goal with autoratchet, straight away.
- [/theatreroyale](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/theatreroyale) - Since I’m now at 14 total backlog goals, and 15 seems a manageable number, this is a backlog goal for Ada Moncrieff’s _Murder at the Theatre Royale_. It’s a Christmas mystery, though, so I expect to start it up soon and read it fast, hopefully before Twelfth Night. I certainly inhaled the previous book in the series!

## Notes:

- And here we are, embarking upon 2023… Happy new year to you all, and best wishes!

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