I hate New Year’s Resolutions. They’re usually an overwhelming list of impossible changes that I forget about sometime mid-January or so. I always feel like I am setting myself up to fail. But this year, I’m taking a different approach. I’m sitting here planning where I want to be and what I want to have accomplished by December 31, 2011. You know, huge list of impossible changes. And then I am breaking that list into little pieces. File it under “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”
For example: I want to draw 1,000 drawings this year. That’s three drawings a day (2.75 actually).
You get what I mean. So all I am doing is creating a list of small, manageable daily changes that will take me to where I need to be 363 days from now. Everyday I’ll check them off. And before you know it, the elephant will be eaten.
That makes a lot more sense, especially to those like me who have no patience and are easily discouraged. Tis better to reach for 2# a week than 10# a month!