Both are customizable.Īnd here are the pages I did in my journal last night for the Read Wide 2021 challenge. The ones I’ve created are here: The TBR Backlog Challenge and The Read Wide Challenge. So, if you find yourself feeling overwhelmed on what to read next (which can lead to reading nothing at all and turning to your phone or TV), consider giving yourself a smaller slate to pick from through a reading challenge. Which means, I'm adding the Read Wide Challenge to my goals for 2021 (and keeping the TBR Backlog challenge as well.) :) I definitely am looking forward to less decision fatigue and hopefully some great reading! “Oh look, I haven’t checked off the box for contemporary romance yet, maybe I should go look at what I have on my shelf in that category.” They allow flexibility but reduce decision fatigue. I realized that’s what my reading challenges do for me. I only have three types of ketchup to pick from instead of twenty. It’s why I prefer grocery shopping at a store like Sprouts instead of a big box grocery store. But somewhere in the middle is the sweet spot. For instance, I wouldn’t want a list of “these are the five books you must read next” because then I’d feel like it was homework and wouldn’t want to do it. Too few would also create stress, I imagine. Baumeister, decision fatigue is the emotional and mental strain resulting from a burden of choices.” - Healthline Not having that more focused lens was creating decision fatigue. I missed the guidance it offered on what to read next. That’s when it hit me- why I was missing the Read Wide challenge. And even narrowing down to year of purchase (the metric for my TBR Backlog challenge), it was still a lot to choose from. The TBR Backlog Challenge is going well (though it’s showing me how my tastes have changed over the years because I’m getting a good number of DNFs), but I felt myself getting overwhelmed by the thought of picking what I was going to read next. Well, it sounded like a good idea at the time…īut last night as I sat down with my book journal to record something I’d read, I realized I missed my Read Wide Challenge. I had a number of reasons for this (wanted to do something new, didn’t want to feel stress at the end of the year, etc.) but one of the other reasons was because I wanted to be less restricted in picking what to read. A few weeks ago, I launched the TBR Backlog Reading Challenge here on the blog and talked about how I was taking a break from my normal reading challenge, the Read Wide Challenge.
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