New Years Resolutions
Jan. 3rd, 2019 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanitashazeReally, 2018 has been a shit year. My physical health is better than it was in 2017, but I'm still not in the living situation I want to be in, my social circle is way too small, I'm vastly underemployed at a job that doesn't pay well and I find really stressful, my country is doing horrible and horrific things and I feel pretty much powerless to do anything about it, and my mental health was worse overall this year than anything other than whatever the fuck 2013-2014 was. It's hard to be optimistic about anything, and while I know that there's a way out of the cycle I'm in, I have no idea how to find it and get out. But I'll try my hand at these resolution things anyway, if only to put it on public record that I said I'd do some things.
1. Find some way to be more politically involved. Even if it's small, it's better than nothing. I can't fix everything and I shouldn't expect myself to, but I can do some work somewhere.
2. Volunteer more. Once a month, at least.
3. Take an audition workshop and then actually start auditioning for things once the current season is over. And don't accept any more fucking board op jobs!
4. Do at least one embroidery project a month.
5. Finish Atlas and continue working on the Alabanza series.
6. Actually write the Homecoming play.
7. Actually write the pilot episode of the unnamed Yet Another Fucking High School TV Show.
8. Make some damn money. VIPKids, Say ABC, temp jobs, Starbucks, whatever, but find a hustle and do it.
9. I don't know what I can do about my mental health beyond what I'm already doing, but I have to do something.
10. Go to more social events -- D&D nights, book club, volunteer groups, reconnect with old friends, whatever -- at least twice a month.
11. Be kinder to myself. I'm not where I should be, I'm not where I want to be, but I'm where I am, and getting angry about that doesn't help anyone.
1. Find some way to be more politically involved. Even if it's small, it's better than nothing. I can't fix everything and I shouldn't expect myself to, but I can do some work somewhere.
2. Volunteer more. Once a month, at least.
3. Take an audition workshop and then actually start auditioning for things once the current season is over. And don't accept any more fucking board op jobs!
4. Do at least one embroidery project a month.
5. Finish Atlas and continue working on the Alabanza series.
6. Actually write the Homecoming play.
7. Actually write the pilot episode of the unnamed Yet Another Fucking High School TV Show.
8. Make some damn money. VIPKids, Say ABC, temp jobs, Starbucks, whatever, but find a hustle and do it.
9. I don't know what I can do about my mental health beyond what I'm already doing, but I have to do something.
10. Go to more social events -- D&D nights, book club, volunteer groups, reconnect with old friends, whatever -- at least twice a month.
11. Be kinder to myself. I'm not where I should be, I'm not where I want to be, but I'm where I am, and getting angry about that doesn't help anyone.
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