Resolutions for 2014

The ten things I want to accomplish this year:

1. Advance my career as a playwright somehow. That's a pretty ambitious resolution, and I'm not exactly sure how to go about that, so I will define it vaguely as that for now. But I want to do something that I can count as an advancement of my playwriting career.

2. Keep writing. Write more things of any kind. I've been on a hot streak when it comes to content creation lately, and I want to keep up my progress.

3. Get my submission rate up to a good number at regular intervals. The more I submit my pieces, the better chance I have of having them performed.

4. Keep up my fitness level. I love being so strong and fit and want to maintain, even improve upon it.

5. Get my finances in order. My budget was knocked out of whack because of my period of underemployment, so I want to get that back in a respectable state, as well as deal with my loans from graduate school.

6. Improve my sewing skills. This means a lot to me and I haven't made a lot of time for it.

7. Improve my ballet skills. I want to get past this seeming plateau I've hit.

8. Read more books. I've read almost no books in the last year due to difficulty focusing for long periods of time. I want to have full-length books in my brain again.

9. Be good to my parents and spend as much time with them as possible. This gets more important every moment.

10. Keep working on being a kinder person, keeping my temper, and being less judgmental. I can never let this one go.

And a bonus one:

11. Keep working on learning how to be hopeful. It's all that carried me in the last few years, and I can't let that go now.