New Year Resolutions
Feel free to keep tabs on my progress and call me out on any of these...
- Watch more hockey.
- Leave random happy drawings in random happy and unhappy places for random people to keep. Randomly.
- Go all “YOU SHALL NOT PASS (my lips)” to soft drinks.
- Learn all the lyrics to the songs I always try to sing during my morning and evening commutes.
- Record myself singing along to those songs and add them to my web site (www.matusic.com).
- Write in my Q&A a Day every evening. I skipped the final 95% of 2014. Shame on me.
- Follow that up with some sudoku or reading. A big juicy brain like this doesn’t maintain itself, people.
- Help Wendi get her craft and blogging beeswax of the ground and on to your computer screens.
- Speak at TEDXAlbany.
- Home improvement projects. That deck isn’t going to build itself. And the shed won’t demolish itself. Well it will eventually if we leave it up long enough.
- Set the zombie books aside and read some of the modern classics I’ve been missing out on.
- Purge a majority of my wardrobe, because I wear the same 15 items in a sort of awkward rotation.
- And then buy a few new things because sometimes I go places that command nice clothing.
- Start up the Albany Drink and Draw.
- Keep up with the ice skating. Jake and I just started and we’re both getting better. We really enjoy it.
- Stay the weird course of weirdness with my drawing and writing (see pic above).
- Fewer movies/shows. More podcasts.
- And maybe some audio books.
- Utilize the gym in the lower lobby of Upside Collective's new building in downtown Albany. A big juicy body like this doesn’t maintain itself, people.
- Blog more.
- Make sure the posts are entertaining to both the readers and the writer.
- Improve my After Effects skills so I can throw down some quick animated shorts.
- Quarterly promo post cards.
- Posters. The weirder the better. And then sell them online or at festivals. For cheap.
- More museums visits.
- Work with Jake to launch a game app. That kid is full of great ideas. It’s about time he started paying out.
- Write letters. Add art.
- Work on some chapter book and graphic novel ideas.
- More live baseball games. Including a trip to Yankee Stadium with Jake.
- Take better advantage of everything the SCBWI has to offer.
- Same with AIGA.
- Visit my folks more often.
- Same with my sister and her family.
- Set up a small screen printing daily-o for basic paper and t-shirt prints. And then sell them online or at festivals. For cheap.
- Network more often. And enjoy doing it.
- Which means I should attend more conferences and talks. And I’m cool with that.
- Meditate daily, or at least when necessary, which will probably be daily.
- Get back into throwing heavy things. It’s worked as a form of meditation in the past.
- Check this list periodically to make sure I’m on track.
- Complain less. Thank more. Like so:
Thanks for reading. Have a fun, exciting, productive and prosperous 2015. Best of luck with your own resolutions.
-G
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