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New Year, New Resolutions
I am one of those people. Every year I make resolutions, and every year by the end of the first week I've forgotten all about them. This year I thought I would try something different. My resolution this year is to try to make time for creativity. It is something that I am interested in both professionally (I'm a teacher) and also personally. But you know how it is, life, it has a habit of getting in the way.
For me personally, I find that I set these giant (or at least not small) goals that I have no hope of achieving because if you are going to make resolutions it is go big or go home. Again this year I have set a pretty lofty goal, "make time for creativity." It would be so easy to be overwhelmed and give up by Monday, which is when school starts and things get busy for me. So I chunked it out. Each month I will focus on one creative outlet. That's it. Just one. And I only have to work on said creative project for a minimum of 10 minutes a day. I figured if I can't spare 10 minutes then I really need to re-evaluate my life.
I have planned all the months out and marked the creative focus on my calendar. I've enlisted the help, by means of encouraging reminders, of my guy. And, as an added incentive, I thought I ought to create a blog and post the results of my work on that day. That doesn't necessarily mean that everyday I will have a posting, even though every day I will have to do something creative. For example, one month is sewing. So unless I finish a project I likely will not post a picture of the work in progress every day. You won't see much difference in a project that is part way through and only has 10 minutes of added work on it. But I will post the beginning and end of the project. Maybe one post of the middle work too. Oh, and the month where I focus on singing, there will maybe just be short written updates. I think that is the best for everyone involved. I don't want to subject you to that, nor do you want to be subjected to that. You may think you do, but trust me, you don't.
Well, I guess that's it for this post. Other than to let you know that January is photography. So for the next 31 days, I will have to post a picture that I take.
Wish me luck!
For me personally, I find that I set these giant (or at least not small) goals that I have no hope of achieving because if you are going to make resolutions it is go big or go home. Again this year I have set a pretty lofty goal, "make time for creativity." It would be so easy to be overwhelmed and give up by Monday, which is when school starts and things get busy for me. So I chunked it out. Each month I will focus on one creative outlet. That's it. Just one. And I only have to work on said creative project for a minimum of 10 minutes a day. I figured if I can't spare 10 minutes then I really need to re-evaluate my life.
I have planned all the months out and marked the creative focus on my calendar. I've enlisted the help, by means of encouraging reminders, of my guy. And, as an added incentive, I thought I ought to create a blog and post the results of my work on that day. That doesn't necessarily mean that everyday I will have a posting, even though every day I will have to do something creative. For example, one month is sewing. So unless I finish a project I likely will not post a picture of the work in progress every day. You won't see much difference in a project that is part way through and only has 10 minutes of added work on it. But I will post the beginning and end of the project. Maybe one post of the middle work too. Oh, and the month where I focus on singing, there will maybe just be short written updates. I think that is the best for everyone involved. I don't want to subject you to that, nor do you want to be subjected to that. You may think you do, but trust me, you don't.
Well, I guess that's it for this post. Other than to let you know that January is photography. So for the next 31 days, I will have to post a picture that I take.
Wish me luck!
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