“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”

- James Cameron, from The New Yorker

It’s resolution time again! This year, I’ve decided that I’ve had it with realistic resolutions. In the spirit of that crazy man quoted above, it’s time to break free of the chains of reason. Therefore, I am assigning myself 10 totally unachievable goals this New Year’s. Rather than trying to achieve them literally, I will look to them to inform my day-to-day activities, in the hope that I will become a smarter, healthier, more creative, and overall more better human person in the upcoming year.

Here goes:

• Sketch every single day for at least 1 hour
• Read a book every other week, alternating fiction and non-fiction
• Blog every other day
• Get up promptly when the alarm clock sounds and read the entire front page of nytimes.com over breakfast before going to work (this is probably the least realistic, actually.)
• Only focus on ONE interesting thing found on the Internet each day
• Cook through all the cookbooks I own
• Cut down the amount of my possessions by half
• Not yell at Yang ever
• Brush Lulu daily

And finally (hopefully this is not actually unrealistic):

• Get into the MFA in Interaction Design program at SVA