Happy New Year!

Well, here we go! Into 2008 with all the same old resolutions of years gone by - "I'm gonna lose weight," "I'm gonna quit smoking," "I'm gonna exercise more," "I'm gonna write that novel..." Stop it. Just friggin' stop it. You may want to do these things, and honestly have every intention of doing them, but, truth be told, you aren't going to do them... There is always something that causes us to fail... "I lost my job, and a cigarette was what kept me from blowing up the HR department!" "My grandma almost never makes that cake! Diet be damned!" "After working all day, I just don't have the energy to work on a novel." Convenient excuses...
The thing is, I believe if you really want to do it, you can and will. You won't let any outside thing stop you. If you really want to sit and think about it logically, the only thing that stops you (barring anything outside your direct control, i.e. an F5 tornado!) is you!
We are our our own worst enemy in many cases. Example, I know there is nothing really stopping me from creating the animation I have had in my head since long ago but me. No one is dragging me away from my computer when I could be creating, nor is anyone holding a gun to my head telling me not to draw. I just need to light the fire under my own ass and get jumping, and no one else can make that happen like I can... like I did to make myself start this blog.
Hopefully, I have inspired not only a reader, but myself to get the frag up and DO that thing that really wants to be done. Lose that weight, quit smoking, write that novel...

Create that animation....

I will end my first post with a quote from the person I wish most to be like:

"I think most people can do a whole awful lot more if they just try.
They just don't have the confidence that they can write a novel or
they can write poetry or they can take pictures or paint or whatever,
and so they don't do it, and they leave the planet dissatisfied with themselves."

Gordon Parks