First let me give all the readers of this blog the best wishes for 2010.
I came about an article about keeping new year resolutions.
It confirmed something I have always suspected. Namely that people hardly ever hold on to there new years resolutions. So I always felt that it was pointless to set them.
But then the article continuous by telling that the truth is that people who set new years resolutions actually have a 10 times better chance of effecting a positive change then people who don’t.
The trick is not to have unrealistic resolutions (loose 20 pounds by March) and not to think that just setting a resolution is enough to make it happen.
It’s actually the process of thinking about how you can effect the change that helps you accomplishing the change.
So here it goes:
My new years resolution is to daily draw and write one article in my blog.
The drawing part doesn’t seem to be that hard.
Last week I’ve found a new direction (about which I’ll write tomorrow) and as result drawing has become a lot easier and a lot more fun.
The writing part has a little more worried. Sort of.
I’ve always felt that you need a lot of inspiration if you want to write daily. So for the last few years I always waited until I had an idea for an article and then wrote it.
I didn’t write very much because I didn’t have very many ideas.
But if there is one thing that I’ve learned over the last few years is that it actually works the other way round.
Necessity is not only the mother of invention. It´s also the mother of inspiration.
Knowing that you have to produce some sort of article about anything does far more for your inspiration, then just sitting and waiting.
The other point of drawing and writing daily is that I must set time aside for both.
Which is actually the biggest hurdle because I´ve never done that.
I get home from work. Turn on my computer. Read a few articles. Find some music and art sites to post on my twitter account. And then it’s time to go to bed.
Doing it that way I never find time to draw and write.
So clearly I have to do it the other way round.
Turn my computer on. Turn my mp3 player on and draw for a hour or so. (Drawing is much more fun with a little music in the background). Write a little in my blog.
And then, if there’s time, do all those other things.
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