New Year's Resolutions

This isn't a post about New Year's resolutions; those are boring as shit.  Everyone comes up with the same two or three goals: lose weight (or the less overt "eat healthier"), quit smoking (or "lose weight" if you aren't a smoker), get a job (a.k.a. "save money" if you're one of the lucky S.O.B.s that has a job already) and so on.

No, I am writing this to ask if anyone has genuinely stuck to their resolutions.  Ever.  Because I absolutely failed at mine this year.

So I guess this is a post about my resolutions after all, but mine are a little more unorthodox, because my goals have been a bit more specific.  I do need to lose weight and eat healthier, but until I can afford a gym membership and/or food, that one is getting shelved.  I do need a job -- desperately so -- but that's something I'm constantly working at.  It's a "forever" resolution.  I only smoke when I drink, so I quit smoking when I'm sober: resolution accomplished!

With that in mine, here were my real goals, and how I failed them:

1.  Draw at least one thing a day.  Even if it was something stupid and small, like a cartoon muffin trying to eat Lincoln's head on a fiver, I tried to stick responsibility to myself with this one.  My life as an artist has been suffering just a bit because I haven't got in as much practice as I would have liked, and this resolution was supposed to inspire me to practice.  Sadly, I didn't even start attempting to keep it until like a week after 2013 started, so I broke it immediately due to a combination of laziness and forgetfulness.

2.  Write as least one thing a day.  See above resolution; I'm really not as organized or determined as I like to think I am.

3.  Wear more makeup.  I own far too much makeup for someone who wears it roughly twice a year.  I love the expensive shit, unfortunately, and tend to accumulate it at the rate I accumulate pens (I will never, ever run out of pens -- I simply own far too many for this to ever happen).  And it's not like I don't enjoy wearing it: I love playing with colors and styles.  But again, I get lazy.  I look just fine going out the door not wearing makeup, so why should I bother waking up an hour early to put on a far (or style my hair, even)?  Yeah, this resolution died quickly.

4.  Stop buying so many notebooks and pens.  Hahahahahahahaha.

I admit I don't think New Year's resolutions are for chumps.  If setting a goal helps give you something real to work towards, good job!  But even with how specific I was in my resolutions (at least the first two), I failed before the year practically began.  Do I feel bad about that?  No, not really.  I'm better with deadlines than with goals, to be honest: if I'd promised myself something along the lines of "by this Sunday you will have drawn seven things" that might have gotten more results.  For now, I'll just stick with what I've achieved and keep trying to do better in general.  Yes, it's lazier, and yes, it's easier, but I'm so done with setting goals right now.  And hey, I can try again next year.  No promises.