June 2026 Goals
Sometimes, I don’t know where to even start with these monthly goals posts. I just start. And sometimes that’s all you can do. If there’s one thing I can say that I admire about myself is that I don’t quit.
At least not on what I want in life. I’m ten years into a hopefully long publishing career, and I hope this is still the beginning. I hope there’s a long writing and publishing career ahead of me still.
And I hope someday it does come become a full-time career. That’s the thing I want more than anything in this world right now. I don’t really want kids, I’m okay with not being married right now, I don’t need a big house. I just want to write full-time. And not because I got laid off, but because I am making regular income through my books.
But that moment is not here today. There is still work to be done, not just for writing but for myself, too.
When I sat down to brainstorm my goals for this month, I was on day one of antibiotic and had a nasty cough that sat deep in my lungs. My ribs hurt from the cough. I was depressed because I was sick again and because it feels like nothing is going right this year. In an ideal world, this next book would be off with readers or at least on the third draft right now.
However, because I was sick, I had to be realistic with what I could do, instead of being optimistic about what I could do. Even then, I still feel like I was a wee bit optimistic about what I could do. Which leads us to my June goals.
June Goals
Writing Goals
I really only have one goal this month and that’s to plan out a book series. I’m not planning to plot out this series chapter-by-chapter, but I do want to have a broad overview of what happens in the series.
plot book two
plot book three
plot book four
plot book five
Nice and simple, I hope. I also have my quarterly planning session, HB90 in the middle of the month, so I need to squeeze that in, too.
Reading Goals
Read twelve books. Already read an entire book at the pool on Monday, so we have to be off to a good start.
Health Goals
Move my body again. My boyfriend and I have talked about joining a gym and waking up at 4 am to go every morning. I’m not sure I’m ready to pull the plug on 4 am, though maybe 5 am could be doable. He works earlier than I do, and I’m not sure I can commit to waking up that early every morning. Especially in the winter. But for now, I want to try and move my body in some way every day, whether that’s going to swim laps or walk on the treadmill or even just lift weights. Step by step to build some momentum. If I can do it in the summer, in Texas, I can do it any time.
Career Goals
Find a new job.
I know the job market is terrible right now, and lord, please let me get at least a new job before the end of the year. January-March is the super busy season in my industry and I do not have it in me to do another year of this.
But obviously I would like a new job sooner.
Or to go viral on social media and sell a ton of books. But I’d like to wait on that until I have at least one more book out.
Laura, Lost in Texas Goals
I’ve been in a bit of a rut just writing goal posts, recap post and monthly TBR posts. And I want to write more. Part of me is afraid though - because I know that at some point, I will be up for a job and someone who might hire me will see this website, I think, and might hold something against me. Having a public relations degree, and coming from a “you’re too sensitive” family, I self-filter a lot. But I want to try and open that up a bit.
So, I’m working through a list of ideas of things I want to write about and determining what I’m comfortable with sharing right now. So, I hope there are more blog posts this month than just the regular three.