 Hello, hello, everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video Which are my goals for 2023 like I said my goals for 2023 video and just kind of updates to the channel and Kind of what I am thinking for 2023 and these are going to be updates for my YouTube channel Instagram like my other bookish social medias and a little bit of like a life update Just kind of giving you an overview of what my 2023 is Gonna look like and just kind of getting it all put together Let's start off with some of the things that are going to change and some of the goals I have for this channel I hope to continue posting two videos a week all year long like I did this past year I think it worked out really well I felt like I was able to get the content out that I wanted to but I also wasn't pressed For coming up with more content than what I was inspired to do. So I'm going to continue Doing that. However, some of the content that I am going to create is going to be a Little different than what I did this past year. So this past year in 2022 I did a TBR for every month This was an experiment because I knew that I was a mood reader But I was wondering how my reading would react to having a set TBR. I knew that if I didn't have any books that I wanted to read It was more likely that I was going to have longer pauses in between picking up books So I wanted to make sure that there were books that I wanted to read But I'm also a mood reader and so forcing myself to read a book that I don't want to is Going to put me in a slump. What I've learned from this is that I don't want monthly TBRs per se because it is too Demanding in a way that does not work with my reading style However, like I said having books that I knew I wanted to read somewhat soon Was kind of nice because then I would always have a book to pick up afterwards But you know, I could go off on tangents about how I would read one book of one genre and then just want to read like three More but my TBR didn't include those So then I felt like I had to kind of force myself to switch So what I'm gonna do this year is instead of doing monthly TBRs. I'm just gonna do Seasonal TBRs. So I also did seasonal TBRs at the same time I did these monthly TBRs, which was really difficult but kind of What I was doing is seasonal TBRs consisted of the very seasonally aesthetic books that I wanted to read And then the monthly TBRs didn't always include those which kind of made it hard to do the seasonal TBRs And then I wasn't reading the aesthetic books that I wanted to but it did open me up for reading other like non-season specific books So this year, I'm just gonna do seasonal TBRs. I'm going to do 10 or less books that I want to read in a season that way I always have a book to pick up when I finish, but if I'm not in the mood I'm not super pressed like well, I only have a month to read these books So I need to like move far with it I can actually just be like, you know what? I feel like picking up something like this Instead and I'm just less pressured to do so. So it allows me to be a mood reader, but still be like motivated and Continuing to read. I also feel like I should say my goal for this past year was to read a hundred books And I so passed that ginormously As of filming right now, I had read like a hundred and seventy-two books I think so I like really went past my goal for this coming year My goal is still going to be read a hundred books Because I never wanted to ever have a goal that was more than a hundred books Because you never know what the year brings and if I don't meet the goal that is okay but I also knew that this year I Put off reading a lot of the chunkier fantasies that I wanted to read Not necessarily to complete the goal because I completed the goal like halfway through the year But I was just yeah, I was afraid of the amount of books I was consuming versus the amount of reading I was doing so I'm going to keep my goal at a hundred books and That's just gonna continue to be my goal every year moving forward And then because of that I am being more intentional with the books that I do want to read and Just actually prioritizing what I want to read not what I think I should read so For more information about that see my video of 23 books that I want to read in 2023 So talk about it quite a bit there. The next thing are unhauls So I have done a few unhaul videos this past year and it's been a good thing So I think that I'm going to be a little more selective because I know that there are books on my shelves that I am never going to read or Have read and just don't care for but I won't unhaul it because I feel like I Should have this book on my shelves for example This one right here This is where the sidewalk ends by shell Silverstein. It is the only poetry book. I have I feel like I should have it Because it's a poetry book and I should probably have at least one poetry book on my shelves But that's bullcrap. I if I'm not gonna read it, which I'm not and I have no interest of it actually being on my shelves I should really get rid of it So I will continue to do unhauls and I want to actually get rid of books and not worry about Like how I'll be perceived for having or not having them on my shelves Also, we will be moving this year. So there's also that it'll be good to do an unhaul before we move and Speaking of hauls and unhauls if you don't know I operate with a book budget and my book budget will continue to be $30 this coming year. So that won't change I will still be buying $30 worth of books every month next thing in terms of YouTube content are I'm gonna talk about bullet journals So I I have a bullet journal. I I've been using Bullet journals And I've been loving it. I love using my bullet journal It's just such a great way to organize my reading my reviews my thoughts my bookish life everything like that however Making the bullet journal videos have been quite a struggle for me I am not a fine art kind of person. I do not draw well and Because of that, I don't want to do like these intensive themes And I I've just kind of been thinking, you know I just don't need to theme each month and then because of that I feel like the videos would get very boring and repetitive because all I'm doing are drawing the same charts every month So I am going to stop doing bullet journals Videos videos I will continue to do a bullet journal. I just won't film the setting up for the month just because I'm not always gonna make them aesthetic and It's just not an expectation. I want to play some myself It's been very stressful and they always go up late those videos always go up at least one to two weeks Into the month and because of that a lot of times what happens is that it'll be like the last day the month and I'll be like Oh, I need to film this video because I need to set up my bullet journal And I'll do all the basic planning for it But then because of how uncomfortable I feel with doing the aesthetic like themes and the artwork of it I always put it off and then I can't allow myself to have a ready bullet journal for the month And everything falls behind and it's a mess So I won't be filming those videos anymore if I'm inspired to do a themed spread for a month good for me But I probably I just won't film it. So those videos are going to stop I'm sorry if you enjoyed them But also I feel like they were the most struggle bus videos that I had like they're always the ones with corrupted footage or Issues so it's just gonna be a huge weight and stress off of my shoulders to no longer do Full of journal videos. Those are the updates for my YouTube channel I am going to do the continuous on again this April and I'm gonna do my spooky season Spectacular again next year things like that's probably not gonna change and probably not gonna add on anything unless I do it with someone else So I don't really have plans other than those then Instagram so for Instagram I have been doing a lot of like Book reviews like doing a post of the book and then having the review in the description And I'm going to continue doing that But I'm also gonna try and diversify my content a little bit more in terms of like doing like my seasonal TBRs or doing Like a wrap-up more often and just smaller stacks and like doing the books that I recently purchased on Instagram and Doing fun stacks and challenges and just kind of doing more than just one book Reviews yeah, I just want to kind of break up my feet a little bit And I want to stretch my creativity a little more and I am probably gonna end up changing my theme again. We'll see Um just to kind of make the photos more interesting, so Instagram is gonna go through some changes and it's gonna be good So you should totally follow me there if you don't already my Instagram is linked down below So you can just click on it there And then so now I'm gonna get to more of the general updates goals and talking about what life will look like in 2023 I currently live in Minnesota my partner Brennan is a student and he will actually be graduating this spring I started college, but I Decided to go on a two-year sabbatical and work full-time because my program that I was studying Was dropped and I didn't get to finish it even though they told me I was going to so That was a huge bummer and so I didn't want to be paying out of state tuition for a Program that was not what I chose the school for But I will actually be going back to school next year. So fall 2023 I will be going back to school and I will be finishing my bachelor's degree So I'm very excited about that It's gonna be such an adjustment going back into classes and really just having Homework because like I said, I've been working full-time and so I'm used to not being home for eight hours a day It's just the hope the nice thing about the job that I currently have is that I don't work from home at all because I work in a bakery Versus like being a student. I'm going to have Again So however the school that I'm going to go to is in Michigan, which is where I am initially from So we will be moving back to Michigan This summer. I'm so excited to move back to Michigan. It's where my family is. It's where Brennan's family is It's the area we're familiar with now There's one other big well two other big things that I will mention about next year First one being in the summer of 2023 So we're gonna pack up everything in Minnesota move to Michigan And then almost immediately go on a two-month vacation in Europe. I Know exciting right? We are going to fly to Greece and spend two months Various countries around Europe We're gonna hop on the train and we're gonna stop and like this country and then we'll spend a week in that country And we're actually gonna end our trip in Morocco because we have a friend who moves to Morocco So we will be spending two months traveling abroad I'm gonna do my best to pre-film as much as possible during that time and I will be vlogging My experience and I'm still gonna read on vacation. I mean obviously But that is going to be another thing that is happening this year that will affect my booktube life That's gonna be a lot right moving from one state to another Traveling for two months back to school Then I have one more update and this is this is like a less dramatic time consuming updates When we move to Michigan, we will begin the process of looking for a house And we finally feel we are in a stable place to be able to do so I'm gonna continue working while I'm in school and he is going to be working while he's getting his master's degree And so we are going to buy a house We're gonna come back from Europe and almost immediately start house hunting because we have been living in an apartment with roommates and everything which has been great But I want a book room and we want our own space and we want to have enough space so There will also be that process until we buy a house when we move to Michigan, but don't have a house yet Because our goal is to have a house by Halloween of 2024 So we'll have just over a year to try and buy a house and this is gonna be a starter home You know when we're gonna live in for a few years, but then we'll probably sell and move on But until then we're actually gonna be living with my parents so We my parents have room for us. It's not an issue but they don't I'm not gonna be able to bring all of my books We don't have space in my parents house for my library So a lot of these books and just a lot of our stuff in general is gonna have to go into storage We're gonna rent a storage unit and it will be temperature-controlled. We are taking care of this. So I'm going to Be have I'm gonna have to put a lot of these books into storage and just not have access to them Whenever I want which is really sad and I am so afraid Which is gonna make filming very interesting Because I might make like monthly visits to the storage unit to trade out books But yeah, it's gonna be a thing and it's gonna be so sad and depressing and I'm gonna continue to buy books Obviously, but that does mean though starting at the beginning of 2023. I'm gonna really need to focus on my physical TBR I'm really gonna need to focus on the books that I have on my shelves that I haven't read Because I don't know how many books I'm gonna be able to keep with me at my parents house and I really want to focus on the books that I haven't read yet, but even still those are all the major life updates moving states two month vacation starting school Books going into storage until we can buy a house. That also means I'm probably gonna be utilizing the library quite a bit And my parents live two blocks from a library. So it's not gonna be a problem not gonna be an issue Next thing I'm gonna talk about though Is I'm making a lot of plans for my shelves. So I have a white shelf down here that you can't really See and we just bought that shelf from IKEA. So we are gonna take that back with us. However, these two shelves right here We got either from for free from a friend this one or we got for very cheap off of Facebook Marketplace this one and I Don't like them. I'm going to sell them. They work just fine. The thing is is that I actually don't like this light brown color I never have So I will be selling these shelves when we move and then when we do get a house I will buy More white shelves because I think I've decided that because I want to figure out my library aesthetic And I think white shelves are going to be the best fit for me personally I think they look best with the seasonal decorations that I like to do They're the most versatile and they really help make my books pop So I won't be able to buy the shelves next year But I will be preparing for it and I know kind of what I want my shelves to look like so again I I get very invested in seasonal aesthetics And so I will be having a lot of seasonal decorations on my shelves But I think the overall kind of vibe that my shelves will go for It's gonna be very travel-based because obviously I love to travel and so like I'm picturing how I want to plan out my book room or my library in our future house and I'm just getting plans for that because even though we're probably not gonna be able to buy a house until 2024 It's still nice to dream in terms of My reading goals like I said my reading goal is still a hundred books It always and forever will be every year is to read a hundred books But I'm going to focus this year on reading whatever I want Even if I'm afraid it's gonna take me a long time to do so Because this year I've done a lot of sacrificing of I'm not gonna read this chunky fantasy Because I could read these three contemporary that I'm interested in in the same amount of time Which is fine because I was interested in those contemporary books But I just don't enjoy them as much as I think I would have enjoyed the fantasy So I am going to be reassessing my priorities about my favorite Genres and what I'm going to read So fantasy will always take the top and I'm gonna do better about prioritizing those and I want to read more Historical fiction as well I'm still gonna continue to read contemporary and I'm still gonna continue to read thriller because I've been reading quite a bit of thriller this year And I've been enjoying it I'm just going to make sure that I'm reading what I enjoy in the moment and not what I should be reading It's gonna be quite the year next year. So there's I'm making all these plans All these goals all these assumptions, but what you're just never really gonna know until you love it Stay tuned if you like this video give it a thumbs up. Tell me some of the goals that you have for 2023 Are you hoping to read more of a certain genre or a certain author or do you Want to collect more books less books like what? What are you thinking for 2023? Subscribe hit the bell to be notified. Like I said, I have bookish social media linked down below I hope it was all right that this was a very chill video Um, yeah Until I see you all in the next one. I wish you Happy reading