I've been thinking in the back of my head over the past month or so that I'd really like to have some concrete New Year's resolutions for 2023. Usually I halfheartedly say I'll start doing something more/less but I never seriously try, and this coming year I would like to. Some resolutions I've been thinking about are that I'd like to start reading and drawing more consistently. Of course, I'd also like to fix my sleeping schedule, but that's always a losing battle.
I've been trying to think of ways that I can seriously implement "draw more" and "read more" next year, but I'm already sort of hit with the fact that I will stop maintaining whatever schedule I set up about three days in. Everyone says that New Year's resolutions don't work unless you're really careful about which ones you pick, so I already feel intimidated by even trying to plan for New Year's goals. Earlier I looked up on YouTube ways to actually implement them, and I came across this cool video, called "Your Theme":
It sort of introduces the idea that instead of having a list of concrete goals you'd like to achieve, you set a "theme" for your year, like Year of Reading or Year of Health. That way when life screws everything up or you lose motivation for the specific plan you set out, you can still find ways to achieve what you set out to do. This idea is really intriguing to me because I've never heard that approach to New Year's resolutions before. I think it removes a lot of the dread associated with having goals you already know you can't realistically achieve.
I think for 2023, instead of having the resolutions "draw more," "read more," "practice violin more often," etc, I might end up having a "Year of Skills" where I focus on building/maintaining my different skills or hobbies. (I think reading would count as part of that? It's a work in progress, I only got into this idea like thirty minutes ago.) Anyway, if you guys had to pick a resolution theme for next year, what do you think it would be?
