New Year’s Resolutions
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HOW TO KEEP YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
Earlier today I posted a top ten New Year’s Resolutions for filmmakers and encouraged readers to pick one for themselves. But if you’ve done that, how do you keep them? Writer, psychologist and researcher Richard Wiseman can help with a blog post entitled “Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions.” From his book 59 Seconds, which backs up self-help techniques with real science, are ten tips on making your resolutions stick. Here are a couple of good ones: 4. Be specific – Think through exactly what you are going to do, where you are going to do it, and at what time. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 1, 2011 -
New Year’s Resolutions for Filmmakers
Are you short a New Year’s resolution? Feel free to borrow one of the ones below. 1. Amplify your voice. You have a voice. Make it bigger in 2011. Spread it wider and connect it to more people. If you are working within your own little crew, spread out. If you’ve gotten into a pattern of relying on the same agents or producers or colleagues, enlarge the perimeter of that circle. If face-to-face is your preferred medium, get out more. Do you email or text too much? Call people more. (This one was suggested by Ira Deutchman via Twitter.) If […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 1, 2011
