Today is the first official day of new resolutions for the year.
Eat a salad every day until May when I go to Cannes.
Get back down to a comfortable size 2 - the clothes still fit but right now there’s a growing muffin top.
Do The Presence Process (a book by Michael Brown) with my husband. This one is not on his enthusiastic list but if I initiate the way, he has somewhere between agreed and wants to do it agreed to do it with me. It’s part philosophy part psychology and I highly recommend it for learning to stop being so reactionary in life.
Do rewrites on my feature film I’m trying to produce so that I’m thoroughly happy with the draft. I have probably written over 200 drafts of this thing. It’s close but not there yet.
Get funding for the feature. Just half a million. No big deal. : ) Sounds crazy but it’s possible considering how well some of the members of our team are doing in their own careers.
Write a short of my feature. I have a potential investor for this one so I’d just be silly not to spend the time. I have actually been working on this one for a good month now but turning a 120 page idea into a 20 page one is hard.
Stop using credit cards completely.
Never, ever go back to waitressing. Oh lord, I hope so.
Get my kid’s acting classes off the ground so that I am able to teach one day a week and make enough to supplement my career.
Get to the point of absolute joy in the auditioning process. A big one.
Blog at least 5x a week.
Run or do other exercises at least 3x a week. I’ll be going later today with my husband and the dogs.
I have not added anything about actually booking acting jobs. I can’t control what I can’t control and somehow that seems contrary to finding the joy in auditioning. Though really, booking is the main thing I am hoping and praying for in the New Year.
Though I have new resolutions every year that often are carried out and achieved, this is the first year I have both written them down and declared them aloud. My husband and I – let’s call him James – just because I’m sick of always saying “my husband” – James and I wrote them out and read them. Like kids. Like finally becoming adults who were aware of the short lived nature of resolutions without the backbone of declaration and audience. It felt good. And achievable.
It’s going to be a good year.
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