Every month this year, I’m trying something new and documenting how it went. Check out what I’ve done in past months here. September saw me embracing my newfound freelance life (sort of) and attending my first film festival.
Looking back on 9 months of 2018, I’ve been thinking about how this resolution has played out and how I could do better to close out the year.
Often, I do new things in my life each month that I was already planning on doing, regardless of whether or not this resolution existed – trips to new states planned months in advance, for example, and a summer job leading outdoor adventure trips that I’d been wanting to do for a long time anyway.
This month, I attended a flagship film festival for the first time, but as an aspiring filmmaker and freelance creative person, the trip made good career sense – not exactly groundbreaking material for trying something new.
I climbed a 5.9 route at the gym – but I’ve climbed before, and a higher grade wasn’t a goal I had predetermined for myself.
Does that make the new things I try any less valid? No, I don’t think so. But it does make them less intentional, and I want to live my life more intentionally.
So, looking towards the end of a long year of change – personally, professionally, societally, and more – my goal is to plan more new things with purpose. To choose to put myself out there and try something new that I otherwise might not do. Because that’s part of the fun, isn’t it?
