OK, every year I avoid making any New Year’s Resolutions as I know I’m going to break them sooner or later. It’s a farce designed to make you feel like you’re being productive but in actuality you’re just saying you’ll do something in the future based on a bogus deadline. Why not a "new week resolution"? Then your feet will really be held to the fire.
That said, I’m joining the herd with my all-new, all-different New Year’s Resolutions ‘09! I’ll actually be posting my progress on this very blog (once a month?) so there is a bit of incentive to follow through with them.
- Lose Weight. The great American past time. When I started my first website I was 180 lbs (I’m 6′2"). When I started ToyOtter.com I was 320 lbs. When Daniel and I started AFI I was 240lbs. I’m now hovering in the 250s. I turn 40 this summer, so it’s way past time to get healthier.
- Get Off the Internet. I’ve been online since I was 22. By 1995 I was online easily 1/3 of the day, and now I’m online over half the day with work and hobby merging. I find myself not watching TV or movies, going out with friends, or accomplishing my many creative pursuits that I used to. For the 2009, I’m going to try to be online only at work, and only for work. I’ll update AFI during my lunch hour.
- Write More Articles/Blogs. Yeah, this seems at odds with my last resolution, but it really is about being more productive and do less aimless surfing. I have a lot of content, so of which was started 3 years ago! All will get finished this year.
- Give Away 90% of My Toys. By the time I hit 40, I want to have divested myself of all toys that I do not have on display. I only have a few lines displayed, so most of what I’ve picked up in the past 20 years has to go. I’ve become less interested in collecting as the years go by (but still love the toy industry) and realize that I do not need to own things to appreciate them, and I definitely do not need to keep anything that has not been displayed for years. I have a good idea of where they are going to go, so please do not ask nor suggest future homes for them. Thanks.
That’s it. If I’m lucky, I can accomplish them all. I figure I can do at least two of them, both with the deadline of this summer. We’ll see how it goes.
To stretch out the new content, I’m holding off on the 2009 predictions for a day or so.
What toys do you have on display on which ones will you be getting rid of?
Hear, hear. For 1, 2, and 3, I’m right there with ya. 4? Notsomuch.
Off the internet? and then what? Read a book? where will you get your porn from?
I’ll detail the toys I’m keeping in a further progress update.
And as for my pron, I’ll get it the old fashioned way: taking pictures through the keyhole of the changing room at Victoria’s Secret.
*Sexy* pictures.
Well, I’m looking forward to your blogs/articles. I do understand #4. After having moved 3 times in 5 years I’m starting to feel the need to have only the essentials. I gave a bunch of stuff to Toys-For-Tots this year but it was only scratching the surface. Not as easy as it seems to thin out a collection.
Anyway, good luck with the resolutions! I sympathize with #2 – but don’t be a stranger!
Sounds like some great goals there Jason–they overlap with some of mine. Good luck with yours, hope it’s a good year for you!
#4 looks better and better to me every year. I’m pretty sure that’s where I’m headed, as well, but you have a few years on me.
That said, I’m quite certain The Otter will dance on my bones when I’m gone.
-JJJ
I can totally understand #4. I’m actually in a similar state of mind right now. Maybe not for the exact same reason as yours, but I can certainly relate to what you wrote.
Good luck with the goals.
I also have a milder version of goal #4 for 2009. I just spent the entire day changing up my display by removing old toys that I’m no longer enamored with. Then I realized I have no place to store them, so they (and many more) are going up on Craigslist soon.