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Make This List

Meredith Bond
2 min readJan 12, 2025

With the new year, a favorite thing for many to do is to pause and look back at the previous year. The end of December is filled with lists of things that have happened, people who have left us, fashions that have come and gone, even new words and phrases that have come into common use.

One thing I like to do is to look back over my achievements from the previous year. Because I keep a daily journal, as well as a calendar with my to-do list for each week, it’s easy to skim through and make a month-by-month list of what I got done. I split my list into three tracks: one for home, one for my author services (coaching, editing, and formatting), and one for my own writing. And, as I mentioned earlier, I organize it by month. It ends up looking like this:

With a list like this there is no room for “I should have…” or “I didn’t…” The entire list is purely a list of achievements — positive things for you to be proud to have accomplished.

Not everything I did last year was positive. I spent the first four months of the year setting up Annessa Ink, my brief-lived publishing company. The next four months were crammed full of working to advertise the company, edit the work of the authors who put their trust in us, and publish a few books as well. It took me two months to realize we were not fulfilling the promise we made to our authors, and one month to close everything down…

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Meredith Bond
Meredith Bond

Written by Meredith Bond

Award winning author, Meredith Bond's books straddle that beautiful line between historical romance and fantasy. Merry is also a writing coach and formatter.

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