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My list is in the order which I consider top is the most important and the bottom is least important.

1) Come out to my family
2) Get my shit together
3) Cut down on sugar
4) Actually draw refs for my OC's.



What are your New Year's resolutions?

I only have one....All I have is to try and make it on youtube and to try my best.

A reminder! Specific goals tend to be much more achievable than vague ones.

For example, instead of of "write a novel" a person might try "spend at least 1 hour 4 times a week focused on writing that novel."

Instead of "eat healthier," one might try "eat at least X home-cooked meals each week and no more than X visits to fast food each month."

Instead of "get stronger," there's "spend X time working out each day/week" and/or "be able to safely list X weight or run X distance."

A plan how is still super useful. If you think you'll fall a little short of your goal with your plan, adjust the plan to meet the goal. If you realize your set the goal beyond what you can reasonable/safely achieve, it's okay to adjust the plan and the goal, but it's also completely fine to use an seemingly-impossible goal just to push yourself as best you can (if you fall short, that's okay, you made progress! and you might even meet it after all!). And if your plan will actually put you past your goal, awesome! You can use that to drive yourself well past your goal, set a new goal to meet, or just have your goal for the rest of the year be maintenance or self care.