2018 Goals

Every time I've sat down to write out my resolutions/goals for this upcoming year a poem by Richard Brautigan keeps popping up in my mind.

Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4

1. Get enough food to eat,

and eat it.

2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,

and sleep there.

3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise

until you arrive at the silence of yourself,

and listen to it.

4.

So yes, this poem says most everything I want to say about my resolutions/goals for 2018, but I've never been one for brevity, especially when it comes to lists.  So here are a few extras:

• Be present.
• Take time to enjoy the people (and my thug muffin dog) I love and cherish.
• Be there for those people (and thug muffin dog).
• Keep Seuss in mind when I'm insecure about my youness: “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” 
• Active listening. Oodles and oodles of it.
• Make stuff. 
• Write. Record Everything. 
• Have an open mind. Be more flexible; slightly more flexible is better than nothing.
• Relax.
• Laugh.
• Critique sandwich the heck out of any feedback.
• Learn from others.
• Seek balance.
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