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New Year, New Resolution
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This blog is about to get some action.
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At this point I'm fairly well known amongst friends and family for my new year's
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resolutions, to the point that earlier this month a friend of mine asked me
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"What's it going to be this year?". In the past I've done things like no
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chocoloate, no fast food, no added sugar (see a theme?), and no social media.
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They've all been of the "I won't do this" sort, because it's a lot easier to
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stop doing something than to start doing something new. Doing something new
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inherently means _also_ not doing something else; there's only so many hours in
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the day, afterall.
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## This Year
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This year I'm going to shake things up, I'm going to do something new. My
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resolution is to have published 52 posts on this blog by Jan 1, 2022, 00:00 UTC.
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Only one post per day can count towards the 52. A post must be "substantial" to
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count towards the 52. A non-substantial post would be something like the 100
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word essay about my weekend that I wrote in first grade, which went something
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like "My weekend was really really really ('really' 96 more times) really really
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boring".
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Other than that, it's pretty open-ended.
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## Why
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My hope is that I'll get more efficient at writing these things. Usually I take
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a lot of time to craft a post, weeks in some cases. I really appreciate those of
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you that have taken the time to read them, but to be frank the time commitment
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just isn't worth it. With practice I can hopefully learn what exactly I have to
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say that others are interested in, and then go back to spending a lot of time
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crafting the things being said.
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Another part of this is going to be learning how to market myself properly,
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something I've always been reticent to do. Our world is filled with people
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shouting into the void of the internet, each with their own reasons for wanting
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to be heard. Does it need another? Probably not. But here I am. I guess what I'm
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really going to be doing is learning _why_ I want to do this; I know I want to
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have others read what I write, but is it possible that that desire isn't
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entirely selfish? Is it ok if it is?
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Once I'm comfortable with why I'm doing this it will, hopefully, be easier to
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figure out a marketing avenue I feel comfortable with putting a lot of energy
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towards. There must be at least _one_...
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So consider this #1, world. Only 51 to go.
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