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Happy New Year

Life Drawing at Basic Inquiry - Lawrence
 It is that time of year when I used to make resolutions, most of of which died off by mid February.  So this year I am choosing to set "goals" rather than "resolutions".  To make it even easier, I am setting goals that I actually want to do and that are near impossible not to achieve! 

I have missed life drawing over the past couple of years so this of course is top on my list.  To make the time and commit to life drawing once a week, either from a live model or from an object in my studio or outside.  Did I mention I am also setting the goals near impossible not to achieve them? 

I actually am doing this for good reason.  I used to set such optimistic goals that I was destined to not achieve them as, let's face it, life gets busy in a hurry.  With age comes wrinkles..I mean wisdom... and I have realized if I set my goals to be so low that I would feel ridiculous not achieving them, that I actually achieve them and more.  

For example, I also set goals near the end of last year to learn guitar.  So my goals are to practice guitar, 2x a week for 5 minutes.  Well, I have been practicing at least 3x (or more, I lose track) and usually end up playing for 30 minutes at a time.  The hardest part is showing up....but once I do.....time flies!

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