3 Life Lessons
Hey everyone, today I wanted to discuss some goals I have for 2021. I hope to make quite a few changes over the next 11 months and setting my priorities straight is the first step to making changes.
Habit of Happiness
This is something I have been discussing quite a lot lately and something I believe to be fundamentally true. Happiness is a habit and skill that can be trained with practice.
Over the next year I am going to be more grateful for the small things in my life and spend less time ruminating on the past. I find myself regretting a lot of the decisions I have made and I also feel bitter about the amount of bad luck I have had. When I ruminate on these things, I tend to ignore the fact that I have also had tremendous luck, just being alive and having access to the internet is a blessing.
Even though I'm dealing with health problems that have slowed by creative progress, it isn't something that has stopped me permanently. Things can always be much worse than it is, I think 2020 has taught us that much. This is why gratitude is such an important component to a happy life, it’s easy to fall into the trap of feeling hatred towards how things are in the present.
So during 2021 I want to develop the habit of seeing the bright side of life instead of focusing only on the negatives.
Improved Health
For my second goal I want to fix my upper back and neck problems. For the past 7 years I have been dealing with chronic pain that has hindered my progress in both my artistic endeavours and also just life in general. I am doing much better than I was 4 years ago but I'm hoping that I can fix these problems for good over the next couples of months.
Physical pain makes it very difficult to focus on any given task so I know I can make massive amounts of progress in my drawing skills once I have healed fully.
Character Design Course
For my last goal of 2021 I want to complete the character design course that I am currently working on. I realized that my drawings lacked character so for the past two months I have been working on character design.
I want to make sure that this course is as high quality as possible and actually helps people learn so I'm going to take my time with it. I do hope that I can finish it in the next couple of months, but I won't be frustrated if it takes longer than that.
Those are my main goals for 2021, I'm trying to put less pressure on myself so that I actually enjoy living day to day. It’s tempting to set crazy expectations on yourself when thinking about what you want to accomplish but most things take a long time.
These goals are just the compass of where I want to head but its more important to focus on the systems around these goals.