Doing Things I Liked To Do Again, Just In 2019
Taking a hiatus is a weird and kind of dangerous thing. I honestly expected myself to only take a break from blogging for maybe a year or two, but here we are now almost 7 years later and I'm committing to actually blogging again.
To be fair, part of the reason I stopped blogging for so long was because I was incredibly negative online, and I almost lost my job because of that, so I decided to just quit the whole thing and shut it all down. All those old posts still exist, they're still there somewhere in the ether, but they'll probably never come out from hiding. Some of them are funny, some are sad, the majority are clickbait, and some are outright mean and horrendous.
I think 7 years is a good enough time to step back, learn from previous mistakes and move forward with a new outlook on life. I'm going to give the whole blogging thing a shot again and I'll try to stay as positive as possible during the process. Being negative is so easy, and I think that's why people do it, being positive takes work, and work usually sucks. But if you do what you love for a living it'll feel like you've never worked a day at all~.
I used to photograph all the time as well, and that
also died. I have a really nice Full Frame Nikon, but I think I've only used it three times since I bought the thing. I want to take more photos again, and that means real photos with a camera, places, models, and not just iPhone photography and Instagram.
I used to be a social media fiend. Every new network, I was on it, but now I'm being an old man again and sticking to "just a few I like," which includes FB, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, and Instagram. So I'd like to regularly post on those platforms again, but I want to isolate the content shared between them. I think Instagram for Phone photos, Tumblr for real photos, Twitter for quick thoughts, Blog for long format information, and FB to keep in touch with friends and plan events.
So how do I keep myself on pace with my own plan?
I want to set a number to confirm I'm doing everything regularly. and I feel like a good arbitrary number would be 100 blogs for this year, one every 3.65 days. That's well within my range, as when I used to blogged back in "my heyday," I posted 196 times in 2010, and 192 times in 2011, and let me be the first to say, that was definitely too many times.
I should do at least one real photography thing a month, the summer will be the hardest because I work non-stop then, so we're gonna go easy and say 12 photography projects over the year 2019.
And of course, music. I've been in two official bands, and haven't been in one since 2016. I don't really intend on joining a band this year, but there is a music project I'll be looking forward to working on called John Winthrop And The Puritans, about the original founders of Boston. This album I intended to release in the calendar year of 2018, but I accidentally went too deep with researching the history of Boston that I never wrote any songs or recorded them, so that's to be done this year. 10 Songs for an Album seems like a good number to me there.
I hate reading, so luckily I told myself to do as little of this as possible this coming year. The only thing on my agenda is to read War and Peace.
I have a dream list pinned to this blog of 100 things I'd like to accomplish this year and in life, so I'm hoping by going back to basics and "decluttering" my life will help me reach that end.
Joe
To be fair, part of the reason I stopped blogging for so long was because I was incredibly negative online, and I almost lost my job because of that, so I decided to just quit the whole thing and shut it all down. All those old posts still exist, they're still there somewhere in the ether, but they'll probably never come out from hiding. Some of them are funny, some are sad, the majority are clickbait, and some are outright mean and horrendous.
I think 7 years is a good enough time to step back, learn from previous mistakes and move forward with a new outlook on life. I'm going to give the whole blogging thing a shot again and I'll try to stay as positive as possible during the process. Being negative is so easy, and I think that's why people do it, being positive takes work, and work usually sucks. But if you do what you love for a living it'll feel like you've never worked a day at all~.
I used to photograph all the time as well, and that
also died. I have a really nice Full Frame Nikon, but I think I've only used it three times since I bought the thing. I want to take more photos again, and that means real photos with a camera, places, models, and not just iPhone photography and Instagram.
I used to be a social media fiend. Every new network, I was on it, but now I'm being an old man again and sticking to "just a few I like," which includes FB, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, and Instagram. So I'd like to regularly post on those platforms again, but I want to isolate the content shared between them. I think Instagram for Phone photos, Tumblr for real photos, Twitter for quick thoughts, Blog for long format information, and FB to keep in touch with friends and plan events.
So how do I keep myself on pace with my own plan?
I want to set a number to confirm I'm doing everything regularly. and I feel like a good arbitrary number would be 100 blogs for this year, one every 3.65 days. That's well within my range, as when I used to blogged back in "my heyday," I posted 196 times in 2010, and 192 times in 2011, and let me be the first to say, that was definitely too many times.
I should do at least one real photography thing a month, the summer will be the hardest because I work non-stop then, so we're gonna go easy and say 12 photography projects over the year 2019.
And of course, music. I've been in two official bands, and haven't been in one since 2016. I don't really intend on joining a band this year, but there is a music project I'll be looking forward to working on called John Winthrop And The Puritans, about the original founders of Boston. This album I intended to release in the calendar year of 2018, but I accidentally went too deep with researching the history of Boston that I never wrote any songs or recorded them, so that's to be done this year. 10 Songs for an Album seems like a good number to me there.
I hate reading, so luckily I told myself to do as little of this as possible this coming year. The only thing on my agenda is to read War and Peace.
I have a dream list pinned to this blog of 100 things I'd like to accomplish this year and in life, so I'm hoping by going back to basics and "decluttering" my life will help me reach that end.
Joe
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