LEAVING 2010.

 R  E  S  O  L  U  T  I  O  N  S 

2   0   1   1

 

  

 

Continue to attend as many gigs as I can 

(+ Lollapalooza festival, Chicago) and research music in general 

Feed my blog regularly 

Relax and retain my sense of self in social situations

Get back to doing sports activities at least twice a week  

  Get there in time

Become if not a straight A, then at least better student

Incorporate more raw food into my diet again

Keep my apartment tidier

Lose bitterness

Travel to new places

Ideas: Netherlands (Amsterdam), Greenland, Iceland (Airwaves?), Turkey (Istanbul) and Africa. One trip this year must be physically challenging - in other words: Not a big-city-holiday.

Avoid time waste

-------------

2010 was a pretty great year:

• I got closer to Simon and travelled the corners of the world with him.
• I travelled a lot in general. This year I went to Bang Saen (Thailand), London (twice), Berlin, Cologne, Rennes (France), Singapore and Tokyo. Oh, and Malmö a couple of hundred times.
• I started university and have now (95% - one upcoming exam) successfully finished my first term
• I upgraded at my job and will get a pay raise in 2011 which means I can work less and earn the same
• I stopped seeing or contacting people I felt provided my life with negativity
• I feel like I networked whiten my musical interests - the contacts I made this year could be very useful 

2010 was also a pretty stressful and nerve wrecking year:

• I realized that it takes a lot of work to be in a long-term relationship since you're not just looking out for yourself anymore
• It turned out that changing your social role in forced relations like school is harder than I've always thought it would be. I felt and still feel like I never really came across the way I wanted to in my new class thus making the wrong first impression. I tried to avoid  closing in on old habits or being a snob, but somewhere on the way I lost my sincerity and felt alienated in a lot of social situations.   
• I continuously arrived too late for everything and disappointed myself by constantly not following a schedule that would get everything running smoothly.
• I realized how much "stuff" stresses me out. I am surrounded by too many things and they paralyse and distract me in my own home.

I know that the resolutions is a big list of big things - some of which I have dealt with for years, but I think the end of a year makes change feel very reachable - it's important to feed off this positive energy and decide what you want to change in your life and what your goals are. 

Making this list, I hope to make it an entry I can return to for clarity of my goals when I feel out of tune in the upcoming year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!