2019 and Goals
The New Year approaches, and I have to say, but 2018 wasn’t exactly a great year for me. In regards to my three goals of getting a girlfriend, getting a literary agent and getting my own place, I have only just this past month gotten a tad bit closer to each goal. Getting 2nd place in the Dream Quest One writing contest showed me that I’m on the right path to becoming a professionally published author, and that I’ve gotten some form of verification that my writing has gotten better.
I decided that I’m going to stop podcasting. The goal of the Chris’s Storytelling Corner podcast was to raise my profile as an author. I started it in earnest in 2016, and I can’t say that the results were fruitful. In that time, I got 15 Subscribers on YouTube and a lot of frustration as I didn’t know how to raise my viewership and Subscriber count. I used to have an MMA show that was close to getting 1,000 Subscribers on YouTube, and with every video I’d put up, I’d pretty much always get new Subscribers. That just wasn’t the case with Chris’s Storytelling Corner. On SoundCloud, I got over 130 Followers, but no one ever commented on my shows.
This will open up things for me to do such as freelance writing to make more money. I can also just get more done in terms of my writing and not having to worry about getting shows out. Podcasting was an experiment for me that just didn’t pan out, but the lesson I got is simply not spreading myself out too thin especially with having a full-time job already on top of trying to become an author.
2019 feels like something of a fresh start to me. I think that there are small changes that I can feasibly make in order to better achieve my goals whether it’s something like cleaning or not podcasting. If I were to be positive about 2018, I would say that 2018 is the year where I put “money in the bank.” I’ve gotten more comfortable talking with women. I understand something like “voice” and put it into my stories, and I even placed in a short story contest. It’s a year where I was continually trying to improve, at the very least.