2012 Resolutions List

[tomgastall]

Here's mine:

-Way Less Caffeine
-Less Procrastination/Hanging out on the Internet
-Visit Disneyland (for the first time)

[Terry.Tyson]

-Visit Disneyland (for the first time)

Yeah, better take care of that. They'll kick you out of California if it becomes too public. Until then, you're here on probation...like a cultural green card of sorts.

"Cultural Green Card," I like that.

Mine:
- Finish losing the last 20 effing pounds.
- Run a 10k. Without stopping for a beer or other noble excuse.
- Hike/climb one or more of the following peaks; Mt. San Jacinto, Mt. Gorgonio, Mt. Whitney, Ryan Mountain
- Hike on the John Muir Trail again.
- Finish writing the work-related article/essay I've started a million times.
- Complete the article/essay on Mentalism and fulfill my promise to send it to this writer in England who's been bugging me for the finished version.
- Write more, including the outdoor blog that is been ignored like a smelly homeless person.
- Meet up a few folks on this board.
- Get back into my studio. It is not radioactive and misses me, I am sure.
- Visit with my PDX family a couple of times. At least.
- Appreciate more what I can do and what I have in this life. I am so lucky, it hurts my teeth.

[Karen Mahoney]

Oooh... nice thread.

I probably have loads of resolutions I should make (and keep!), but right now I can only think of:

- Write more.
- Write better.
- Work smarter. (Otherwise known as: stop procrastinating.)
- Stop eating so much crap.
- Exercise. A little. (Cut me some slack - I don't do any exercise at all right now, apart from walking, and me and the boyfriend really need to work on this. We're SPREAADDDING.)
- Give more time to my family & friends.

Kaz

[nickellis]

Terry, kind of a cross-thread post from the Media Diary, but I've just been listening to the audiobook of Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and it's got me itching to run again...

My aims for 2012 are many, so I'm going to narrow them down a little, and I want to make them specific, but here are a couple I know already:

- complete the 100 days of writing 100 words a day *at least* once
- complete a 24 hour comic as per Scott McCloud's instructions

(More soon...)

[Karen Mahoney]

Terry, kind of a cross-thread post from the Media Diary, but I've just been listening to the audiobook of Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and it's got me itching to run again...

(More soon...)

I hate running and am not a 'natural' runner, but I do love that book! Makes me want to run...

Kaz

[henrybarajas]

Oooh... nice thread.

I probably have loads of resolutions I should make (and keep!), but right now I can only think of:

- Write more.
- Write better.
- Work smarter. (Otherwise known as: stop procrastinating.)
- Stop eating so much crap.
- Exercise. A little. (Cut me some slack - I don't do any exercise at all right now, apart from walking, and me and the boyfriend really need to work on this. We're SPREAADDDING.)
- Give more time to my family & friends.

Kaz

This is a lot simlar to mine.
*Write more scripts.
*Finish my novel
My goal is to use this forum and meet more like minded creators.

[nickellis]

Ok, here's my weird and now, it seems, fairly ambitious list:

- finish the club100 thing at least once (100 words a day for 100 days straight, no breaks, no carrying over totals)
- once I have completed club100 once, do the best I can to write and/or edit every day, and keep a record of this
- having completed club100 once, start and complete a variation on the theme where I draw a character a day for 140 days, trying out different styles, techniques, etc.
- get a portfolio site up and running (I will know the portfolio site is up and running when I have examples of writing, illustration, web work and design on the site and when I have received an inquiry about a commission)
- start the non-fiction blog that my friend and I keep talking about, and record at least one (test) podcast
- start and get partway through (not sure how long it will take) a blog where, once a week, I complete a task from Scott McCloud's Making Comics, DC's How To Pencil Comics by Klaus Janson and any other useful how-to-make-comics books
- complete the Coach Andy's 5km Race program once (it's from the Nike+ app, no particular endorsement of the program, except that I've done it once and liked it)
- run the City To Surf (or an equivalent length race)
- be able to walk on my hands
- dunk
- try out GTD, which means go through all the prescribed steps in the book, and practice weekly catch ups for a period of ten weeks straight (because I figure that will either get the habit ingrained, or tell me if it's going to work for me)

This is basically a list of projects that I've given myself a deadline for. The deadline is 31 December 2012. No idea if I'll make it.

[Terry.Tyson]

Changed up the resolution list a little. Adding a new peak, Mt. Adams located near PDX / Seattle area, to the list. Plans are underway and a date has been sent.

[jenifu]

I'm a-gonna try to stop sweating the small shit.
My engine idles way too high.

[Karen Mahoney]

I'm a-gonna try to stop sweating the small shit.
My engine idles way too high.

*high five*

Good one.

Nice to see you, btw!

Kaz