Goals Review
Hello again
everyone, and welcome to today’s post!
On my
birthday last year, I set myself some goals as to what I wanted to achieve by
the time I reached my birthday this year. With my birthday just days away, I
feel that now is the right time to review these goals and see whether or not I
managed to achieve them in the last 12 months.
Get to 1000 pageviews
In
a previous post, I said that it meant a lot to me to hit 200 pageviews and now
I’m looking ahead and hoping that this blog will become more popular over the
next twelve months and I think it is realistic to aim to reach 1000 pageviews
in that time.
If you’ve been following me over the
last year, you will know that this goal has been well and truly smashed. To
date, the total number of pageviews is 5,200, which is more than five times
what I set out to get just a year ago, when I was still on around 250! Every
day, when I look at the stats, I am blown away by the amount of support this
page receives, and the amount of countries it has reached, less than eighteen
months after it began.
Get 100 followers on Twitter
At
the time of writing, I have around 50 followers and would really like to double
this within the next year and I hope that you will all share this blog around
and get people to follow me on Twitter so that this blog can continue to grow
and develop.
Again, this goal has been beaten by some
margin, with my Twitter followers currently sitting at 190. It feels great to
know that this page and the accompanying social media pages are being read and
that people are interested in what I have to say, and this provides a massive
boost to my confidence, so thank you all.
Start a YouTube channel
This
is something I’m going to talk about more in a future post so for now I will
only say that this is something that it is in the works.
OK, I said it was “in the works” and at
the time, I was seriously considering making the leap from blogging to
vlogging. I did create a channel with the intention of uploading very soon
after (I even said in a later post that I would upload at 750 pageviews), but
because of a variety of reasons there are still no videos on it to date.
Right now, my priority still lies with
this page and the blogosphere, so I have decided to stick with this and put my YouTube
plans on hold. This doesn’t mean that I won’t start uploading videos at some
point, but for now it remains something for the future.
Pass my placement year at university
After
my first three years at university (the last of which was a repeat year) I am
looking forward to embarking on the adventure that is my placement year. I will
be working in the UK for the first part of it and then will be studying in
France for the second part. From watching and hearing about the experiences of
others who have been on this journey already, I realise that this is probably
going to be one of the best and most enriching times of my life and I cannot
wait for it to start.
In spite of all of my fears and
anxieties about what this year would bring, it ended up being a huge success
for me, which ended with passing comfortably. Not only that, but the experience
of living in France was far more amazing and enriching than I ever expected it
to be. I learnt so much and met so many amazing new people along the way, whilst
building my self-confidence in ways I could never have imagined (MORE TO FOLLOW
IN A FUTURE POST).
Set up a Facebook page
In
order to make my blog more popular, I need to expand my social media. So far, I
have not reached Facebook but this is about to change and I am in the process
of creating a page for my blogs so that I can reach more people. I can promise
you that I will have a Facebook page very soon for you and will let you know
when it is set up.
Unlike my YouTube promise, I DID create
a Facebook page not long after posting this. So far, it is approaching 100 likes,
which is not too bad for a page which hasn’t existed for that long. I have also
used it to network, and find other bloggers through groups and pages, increasing
the reach of my posts and thus making it more popular. If you are a blogger
yourself, I highly recommend this method of increasing likes on your Facebook
page.
There we go then, I achieved four out of the five
goals I set just a year ago, which is incredible. You can leave me your
thoughts in the comments or on my social media links which are in the table
below. My next post will be Trent's Tracks, which will be out tomorrow. Not only that, but on Sunday, I will be posting my goals to achieve for my 23rd birthday, so be sure to look out for both of those.
Until tomorrow, keep active, keep smiling, and above
all else, keep believing!
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
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