Happy 2024 – New Year, New Blog!
Each January 1st as the midnight bells toll and cheers echo through the air, I take time to reflect on the past year and look forward to what the new year will bring. 2023 was a wonderful and busy year for me personally – but I neglected this blog. For 2024, I am resolving to create more content and add more personal touches to this blog. There are dozens of horror news sites that can post press releases and news, but there is only one site that hosts this Emily’s unique humor and personality – TheHorrorOfBeingEmily.com! I still plan to update the events calendar with horror events from around the country and give occasional posts regarding events I have a hand in, but get ready for more personal posts and fun content.
Living the spooky life 365 days of the year is amazingly fulfilling, but it does require a lot of work. Every year I challenge myself to grow and strive towards my ideal Halloween lifestyle. I am actually pretty good at achieving most of the things I set out to do every year (except, apparently, staying on top of blog posts). How do I do this? Is it perhaps some innate magical power? Am I a witch? Quite possibly so. Still, there are some ways to craft new year’s resolutions to make one more likely to achieve them:
1. Make Your Goals Quantifiable (i.e. “Carve 5 Pumpkins”, not just “Carve More Pumpkins”)
2. Make Your Goals Realistic (i.e. “Read 12 Spell Books”, not “Read 120 Spell Books” – unless of course that fits your lifestyle, then way to go!)
3. Keep Yourself Accountable (i.e. Track your progress, ask friends to check in on your goals, broadcast your resolutions on your blog so you would feel very embarrassed if you slack off)
Keeping those guidelines in mind, you can set yourself up to achieve all the ghastly goals you strive towards!
Part of this “New Year, New Blog” makeover will be sharing more of my personal stories and journey with you. I have a lofty set of goals for this year and hope to post more about how I take these goals and implement them into my daily life in spooky ways. Upcoming blog posts will share ideas and inspiration for more ghoulishly delightful ways to make self-improvement fun!
Here are some of my main resolutions for 2024:
It seems like a lot, but at 12 days into the new year, I am already well on my way towards many of these goals. So step with me into the fog-laden corridors of self-improvement and prepare to confront the ghosts of procrastination and the haunting specters of past unfulfilled promises. Enter if you dare, and let the spooky journey begin!
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