Part of it is because I get a bit irritated by the fact that people always decide to wait for the new year to start something new or making those ever so popular new year's resolutions that fall by the way side by...well by about this point in the year. I tend to try to avoid this. I mean I do make goals for myself at the beginning of each year but it's not because I feel like it is the best time to start something new but it is easy to use it as a measurement for my goals. If there is something that I want to accomplish, I would rather it be now than later. I'm a procrastinating slacker as is, I don't need to add the perception that new goals should only be set at certain points.
Nonetheless, here are my goals for the next eleven or so months. I didn't even come up with all of them within the first day or two of the year so I feel like I'm behind in them but oh well.
1. Complete the 50 book challenge.
2. Run a marathon.
3. Get into graduate school.
4. Finish my novel.
5. Make 35 YouTube videos.
6. Go to Playlist LIVE, VidCon, and LeakyCon.
7. Visit 3 new countries.
8. Become more fluent in Spanish.
9. Get better at playing guitar.
10. Complete the 100 movie challenge.
Several of these goals are ones that I have set for myself pretty much every year for about the past 4 years. The book challenge, the YouTube videos, playing guitar, and going to cons has always been there. What makes this year different as opposed to the previous years? Honestly, nothing. I don't feel like I am significantly different from last year or even from the year before. I would like to think that I am more motivated this year. In fact, I have already read four books, made one video, downloaded a learn guitar app on my iPad (it's broken up into lessons and everything!) and will be getting enough money within the next 3 weeks to register for LeakyCon. So at least when it comes to my repeated goals, I am at least starting a few of them.
There are the goals that are building upon things in the past such as running a marathon, getting into grad school, finishing my novel, and becoming more fluent in Spanish. I always say that I want to get in shape/lose weight, but I never do so instead I am aiming for something tangible and specific like running a marathon. We'll see if I follow through. I am finally finishing undergrad so I'm heading to grad school which is a scary process (but more on that in another blog post). I started a novel during NaNoWriMo and even though I failed at reaching 50,000 words, I want to keep writing and finish writing the novel. And after taking Spanish classes for a year and half, I want to build on it so yeah.
The new ones here are visiting new countries and the 100 movie challenge. I always liked the idea of travel but I have never really done it that much. I know that I do not exactly have that much money but I think that if I don't spend money on silly things and look for deals/not be too picky...I think I can manage it. Another thing that we'll have to wait and see.
And that's about it for now. I like how I basically contradicted myself from the beginning of this blog to the middle of it to the end. Oops.
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