Weekend Update: Final Edition 2017
Dec. 31st, 2017 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonHappy New Year for those already celebrating! :)
I'm looking forward to starting up the new writing schedule and working towards the goals I've laid out for myself over the last few weeks. I've spent the last few days planning it all out and I'm eager to get started already. Over the years I've learned the best way for me to do this is not to assign specific deadline dates but to give myself certain 'beats' to hit along the way. It's essentially focusing on all the smaller related goals that bring me closer to the the bigger main one.
On a more personal note, I think my aim for 2018 is to continue keeping myself positive whenever possible. Not blissfully ignorant, of course. But not letting the bastards grind me down anymore...I think I finally understand how that phrase resonates with me on a personal level. (Well, I've kind of understood it for years, but never really put it into full practice. But that's another blog entry entirely.) I'm pretty much my own worst enemy when it comes to distraction and procrastination, and that needs to stop, both on a creative and on a personal level. If that means continuing to avoid pointless conjecture and doomcrying on social media, then that's what I gotta do. It's a crazy world out there, a lot of stupid shit going on that can bother the hell out of me, but I'm done with being a part of the echo chamber. If positive means finding an answer to the problem -- even and especially if it's unorthodox but will work -- then that's the way I need to go.
But yeah...positivity, forward motion, clear goals.
Lots of stuff to do in 2018. *rolls up sleeves* Let's get started.
I'm looking forward to starting up the new writing schedule and working towards the goals I've laid out for myself over the last few weeks. I've spent the last few days planning it all out and I'm eager to get started already. Over the years I've learned the best way for me to do this is not to assign specific deadline dates but to give myself certain 'beats' to hit along the way. It's essentially focusing on all the smaller related goals that bring me closer to the the bigger main one.
On a more personal note, I think my aim for 2018 is to continue keeping myself positive whenever possible. Not blissfully ignorant, of course. But not letting the bastards grind me down anymore...I think I finally understand how that phrase resonates with me on a personal level. (Well, I've kind of understood it for years, but never really put it into full practice. But that's another blog entry entirely.) I'm pretty much my own worst enemy when it comes to distraction and procrastination, and that needs to stop, both on a creative and on a personal level. If that means continuing to avoid pointless conjecture and doomcrying on social media, then that's what I gotta do. It's a crazy world out there, a lot of stupid shit going on that can bother the hell out of me, but I'm done with being a part of the echo chamber. If positive means finding an answer to the problem -- even and especially if it's unorthodox but will work -- then that's the way I need to go.
But yeah...positivity, forward motion, clear goals.
Lots of stuff to do in 2018. *rolls up sleeves* Let's get started.
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