After New Years: best time to make resolutions, right?!

In recent years I’ve backed away from even speaking aloud resolutions in fear that mere utterance is enough to break them. Not this year! No, this year I’ve got it figured out: delayed resolutions! Two weeks into the new year and people are already undoubtably breaking their New Years resolutions, so here I go just sliding in with my 2018 Blog Resolutions! Good plan? We’ll see. Here are some resolutions and trends that I want to make publicly and review every quarter to see how I’m doing. Sound good? Let’s do this:

• Achieve low-hanging Bucket List fruit — I didn’t specifically create my Bucket List with low-hanging fruit, but populating it with things I want to accomplish would reasonably include things that aren’t necessarily difficult but that I just haven’t gotten around to doing. Things like “17. Own a pair of black cowboy boots again”, “26. Experience a solo backpacking trip”, “28. Shoot a round at Golden Gate Park archery range”, “42. Properly sharpen knives”, “58. Learn to juggle” — you get the idea. Low/no cost, close to home, achievable. I grabbed those four with a quick glance, so let’s up the ante: Cross off five bucket list items this year.
• Selfie Posts! I’m not kidding — you have been forewarned. Seriously, though, I’m naturally predisposed to self-doubt and self-consciousness, so committing to posting selfies once a week is a huge step. Heck, I may even have to get myself a selfie stick! And if I see a photo booth I’m required to stop and use it (check out this wonderful (though occasionally racy) podcast on photo booth obsession from Love and Radio). Here’s the brass tacks: One Selfie Post a week. Speaking of posting resolutions…
• Stick to a posting schedule. I’m still working on the particulars, but here’s what I can commit to: Selfie post on Mondays, a story a week on Wednesdays, and What I’m reading/watching/listening to on Fridays. Three posts a week. It’s about consistency. Speaking of which…
• 10,000 step days. More abstract than “lose weight” or “get in shape,” and so I think it’s reasonable. I’ll start small and build: At least 1 10K day a week in Q1, 2 10K days a week in Q2… I think you can see where this is going…
• Shut up and make things! Reviewing my 2017, I noticed I built a number of things early in the year — my sewing table and the cabinet for my motorcycle gear storage — but then not a lot else. That needs to change. The whole point of building the sewing table was to facilitate the creation of things, to give myself a big, flat, tall table to do projects on — sewing, sure, but also a place to work on my guitars and other electronics projects. There’s plenty of areas inside the house that need better storage solutions. I can build these, I just need to get out of my own way. I’ll commit to something small and attainable: One completed project a month.