New Year Resolution

[jjfresh]

Yo, it's JJ.

Now, I'm not one for holidays or events (ironic considering I host one) or New Year resolution. I've never really thought about New Year resolution before but lot of stuff has happened and has been happening to me and it's difficult for me to continue on every day. Every day has been a struggle and only recently I've been finding something I want to reach for. Goals seems to keep me going and I feel like I may have found some to make living a bit easier

By the way I don't really know what New Year resolution is supposed to look like so I'm just jotting down goals I'm hoping to reach.

• Get a new job
• Move to Chicago (preferably before tax season)
• Data science self study
• some legal stooffs
• Be more involved in things
• Continue/finish my goddamn webcomic
• Be well enough to want to draw again

(Sorry, felt like I needed to let that out since I have no real outlet)

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Your turn. Tell me your own resolutions. Gogogo!

[phoenixrenaissance]

Every year I'm way too art focused so for once I'm resolving to give more attention to other parts of my life.

• Finally make and go to appointments with my doctor/dentist/optometrist
• Pay off student loan and credit card

• Do some home repair so I actually enjoy my living space

• Get enough subscribers to pitch a premium comic???

[nathanKmcwilliams]

I'll keep my expectations down and do no resolutions this year. This way I can only improve because there's no bar for failure xD

[spadedigsbutts]

• Make more pages than I did this year

• Try to get in an illustration a month

• Really work on fundamentals and improve my general art skills a lot

I’m very psyched for the new year I just wanna make stuffffff

[Alexandritea]

Personal first:

• Continue my work on improving my daily life to ease the constant physical pain I was in (Definitely improved 2019).

Practical second:

• Try to shorten the time between page uploads of my comic "United We Stand".

• Improve the use of colors and overall anatomy knowledge.

[Rhonder]

The two biggies for me this year fall into a "take back control of my life" type category:

1.) Get back into a consistent gym/workout schedule

I was working on this and almost had something going prior to starting my comic, then it fell into disarray as I started prioritizing completing my pages for my weekly updates over working out (which I was already having a tough time balancing with my other hobbies and social life lol). So, before I get into the full swing of working on the next season of my comic, I want to really work on getting back into an exercise rhythm.

2.) Finally move out of my parent's house.

Attempted to find some sort of roommate situation and move out this year, didn't happen. So I might end up having to bite the bullet and try and find a semi-affordable apartment to move into solo lol. But regardless, I've been out of school and working a few years now, so I'm super ready to step away and reclaim some of the independence that I had in Uni xD My parents are super chill so it's not a bad situation, but at the same time... it's time

Then, my more fun art/comic related ones:

3.) Start (and maybe finish??) TreasureHUNT!! Season 2. I don't know if finishing is realistic since it's still in the early writing phases, but I'm at least gonna start by mid-to-late spring hopefully~

4.) I want to edit Season 1 a little bit and get it ready for print. I would love to accomplish this early enough to be able to give TH!! books out as Christmas presents next year

[jjfresh]

Hahah, flawless logic

[jjfresh]

For 1) I've been doing the same. Been enjoying strength training, I just don't like the driving to and from because it's always during traffic. When I move, I'm gonna make sure I get a free weight gym CLOSE BY. Going to gym, whether it's light workout or something like what I'm doing is always good ^_^

It mostly takes self discipline in the end though when things get really busy, sometimes you do have to stop for awhile.

For 2) understandable, it's time \o/

[jjfresh]

I totally forgot to add the student loan part. I've almost paid all the credit card off, been living thrifty to pay off stuff fast.

I'm the opposite, I need to get back into my art. I've been in a hiatus/down? period of my drawing. I hope I can turn back to it again.

[GesuGesu]

I rarely follow holidays, and new year resolutions are usually vague for me lol.

• Maintain a healthy body. Don't overeat, try to get some movement in. Just have a decent body in terms of stamina and heart health.

• Draw traditionally more often. Ideally draw something once a week minimum, but I've been thinking to go back to basics and try traditional.

• Pass my practicum. I didn't dare advance in my current job because I wanted to finish my degree partway through next year. Whether I pass or fail determines the changes in my career path.

• Kepp up with my friends more often. I should learn to make time for a social life. I'm always so focused on my work and my own precious leisure time that I don't consider using my leisure time to just chat with others.

[Penni]

I really only have two resolutions

• Focus on recovering from knee surgery

• Write as much as possible this year before I make the decision to start my Master's degree

[teasidesketches]

I've come up with a couple for myself!

• I'm moving in January, so... settle in to my new place and get myself a job!
• Figure out how to make really nice gradients in watercolors so I can work towards putting together a particular watercolor style that I really want to try... that requires pretty gradients.
• Try to keep up with my comic next year... or, at the very least, make another 100 pages.
• Actually be able to do one of those year in review things next year with a painting for every month.
• Finish ironing out most of the major plot details for Ivory Weald in book 2 and on

[skicoak]

My resolutions...

• Spend more time on my primary yacht and not the smaller one (all due to a superstition about the different heli-pads, stupid I know)

• Learn the third alternative butler's name. I keep calling him Oslwald and then I remember that's the chef at the villa in France. They look to similar ...should fire one or the other.

• Stop trying to make Fetch happen.

• Make finishing touches on my secret volcano hideo...

• Learn how to keep a secret!

[DualDragons]

Well:
- get an internship for my study mechanical engineering
- finish chapter 4 and 5 and partly 6 of my webcomic
- possibly get a driver's license if i can find the time for it

[jjfresh]

Good luck with the moving. You're moving before finding work? I can't move UNTIL I find a job haha.

[teasidesketches]

I'm moving back to my mother's home country (Japan) and a lot of the jobs require an in-person interview, and I'm not exactly hurting for money at the moment. So, I have some time to job hunt and actually go to interviews without worrying about a job right away. ^^;

[amberberry]

I'm not making resolutions but I'm setting goals. It feels much more positive and encouraging to me. It's something you try to achieve instead of a promise you try to keep. I don't know if it really makes much difference. But yeah here they are

• finish my thesis and graduate from uni
• eat more healthily and exercise more
• start a new novel
• finish the bloody short story I started a year ago and submit it to a writing contest
• get a job, I guess
• try to figure out better what I want to do in life

[AbelDraws]

I always set up a goal for every year (it used to be studies for most of my life, except last year) but this one I'm very very divided.

• I want to maintain my pages schedule (and have 2 pages a week for a while if I get the time).
• I need to dedicate more effort to college (even tho it feels like a friggin battle everytime due to a lack of motivation :c)
• And, the goal I actually set myself to: work on... Myself x'D gotta keep on trying to get better. (On the same note, I really have to start exercising lmao, it's a must for mental health, or so I've been told over and over).

This year I made some improvements I did not expect to do tho, and it was great. I started my comic and started to talk to people (people from here in the forum mostly, you know who you are) I really wanted to talk to but was too shy and anxious to do so. That's something I really did not expect to happen and I'm super happy I got to do so... Looking forward for more improvement next year!

[KatTheBard]

I think my biggest goal is that I want to learn how to manage my time wisely. That way I can have more time to work on my comic and other art. This also goes with hopefully finding time to exercise. Outside of that I also want to work on my mental health this year. I'm currently on a waitlist to begin seeing a therapist so hopefully that'll go well.

[burginlewis]

1. Write 500 raw words a day, M-F.
2. Drink more water.
3. Have more fun.