New years resolutions

It’s now 2021 and people are making new years resolutions and new goals for what they want to achieve. I have always made new years resolutions, but this year I’m going to pull it back and try to make new years habits. I want to make small changes, rather than large goals.

I want to make changes to the small things. Rather than do big large things. I want to keep writing on this blog, once a day, but I’m going to write for 25 minutes every day. That way I’m focusing on the act of writing, rather than the product I’m making. If I end up writing more posts they’ll just be scheduled for the future, but write every day for only 25 minutes. That seems manageable and honestly sounds easier than “write a blog post every day”.

It doesn’t sound as good or as cool as “write a blog post every day”, but I bet it’ll result in something better.

Another goal is to continue to release one YouTube video a week. I’ve released a video a week for a number of weeks in 2020 and I want to continue that output.

One way to make sure that certain goals get achieved is to make them very concrete. I made a goal to listen to one new album a week for 2020 and that didn’t really work out, but trying to do that achieved my goal to listen to more music. It’s also a good goal to have. It’s do-able. It’s very concrete and something that you can really track whether you’ve achieved it or not.

I’m going to continue to try to do that. 52 albums in 2021.

Good luck with whatever goals you may have.

ISJ