I’ve never been a fan of New Year’s resolutions. In fact, I’ve never been one for big goals or long term planning – usually I make my goals too large and ultimately unattainable, so after a couple weeks of enthusiasm I spend the remaining months feeling terrible about my inability to stick to a plan. But that doesn’t mean that I find intention-setting to be a fruitless venture and though I don’t want to let my writing stagnate due to a complete lack of forward momentum that I could have addressed, so here I am with some thoughts about the general direction of this blog, my writing, and my general anime fandom as we enter the cusp of the transitioning year.
I’m going to be laying out few concrete goals here; concrete goals are historically what I’ve been unable to meet, and I don’t want to set myself up for easily-defined failure. But at my day job the management is sort of enamored with an idea called “Start, Stop, or Continue,” in which the person participating in the exercise, annual review, or whatever, defines the actions that they’d like to start, stop, or continue going forward. I’ve found that to be a more helpful way of framing things in my life, so despite the fact that I find the professional world to be a little bit jargon-y and silly at times, I feel that in this case at least its heart is in the right place.
