It’s a new year and the energy of the entire world is focused on change. Can you feel it? I like to take some of the worldwide focused energy and aim it at my own desire for change and creating a better life for myself and my husband. A.K.A. new year’s resolutions, but I’d rather think of them as goals.
So what are my goals and plans for 2023?
- Get focused. I need to put on my big girl panties and get down to the business of building a career I want. I’ve started a few Pinterest boards based on the book I found in my Little Free Library called “Future Boards.” But it’s time to hunker down and get focused on my big plan, my big dream, and the life I want. Yes, it will be hard, and there will be days and maybe even weeks where I won’t feel like I’m making any progress, but if I do nothing, then I’ll go nowhere and accomplish nothing.
- Stop wasting time. I waste too much time on Twitter, Pinterest, and other meaningless activities. It’s time to put an end to that and focus on what I need to do to become a professional creative.
- Start sketching more. My drawing and illustration skills are rusty, and I don’t even know what my illustration style is or what I want it to be. But the only way to figure it out is to keep creating, drawing, and illustrating until something clicks.
- Learn more about Adobe Illustrator. I want to learn how to use it so well that I can teach it. I also want to learn how to use the plugins that I’m paying for but barely know how to open.
- Focus on my health. Menopause has made it harder for me to maintain a healthy weight, and it’s time to start taking better care of myself.
- Get better organized. I suspect I have ADHD, and I want to get diagnosed and possibly medicated so that I can learn better coping skills.
- Transition my garden to at least a 90% native pollinator garden. I want to support the native pollinators and create an ecosystem within my own yard that does that. One major step in that plan is to plant a native garden with a diverse variety of flowers.
