Reading Progress and Why We SHOULD celebrate

In this week’s post, I first thought to share updates on my reading goals for 2018- 25 books.

 

Hurrah! 

Seemed like a nice milestone to share. The year is almost half up, I’m striding ahead on my goals and everything is hunky Dory, right? 

Ha ha! Well, I almost did not share this post. 

Thoughts running in my head in no order of importance but enough velocity to make me NOT celebrate this win, not share this post were :

13 books in 6 months is nothing. Hardly inspiring or worthy to share.
With 25 books as a year’s goal, I’m actually just on track. Not ahead or anything.
Good reads just released interviews and reading tips from folks who complete more than 100 books a year.
I’m an author – I should be reading more.
I’m the female who has done 100 books in 100 days challenge. Successfully! This is so paltry in comparison.
Does this even make sense to share with my fellow bloggers and readers? 

Thanksfully, I squashed that inner critic and instead decided to voice those negative thoughts and make a post out of it. After all, a win in life is a win all right. Big or small, every little milestone is reason to celebrate, to feel happy and cheerful. 

And it occurred to me that I’ve just finished reading  books like’She Means Business’, ‘The Sweet Spot’, ‘Lucky Bitch’ and so on. Time to put the lessons from these books to good use.

And so I am sharing this personal accomplishment. 

A light bulb went off in my head. I realized that this is just like how parents (including me) celebrate the little milestones of babies in their first year, like rolling over, smiling, standing, teething, standing, recognizing. To outsiders they seem trivial or silly, but we know the hard work and struggles that it takes to reach there!