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by | Jan 4, 2008 | Everything Else

[I borrowed some of these ideas from Longbrake. Thanks.]

  • Take a photograph every day for your new project, 366. It will be fun to try to document everyday life and a good exercise to help you think more about how you make photographs.
  • Take a Polaroid photograph every week to represent that week. Store it in a lovely new Moleskine journal. Perhaps one of the nice new softcover ones.
  • Attempt to write down one main thought or idea from each day. Maybe it’s only a word. Maybe a complete thought. It will be interesting to look back on periodically.
  • Start a photography course. And complete that course.
  • Listen more. To everything and everyone. Sermons. Friends. Strangers. Street preachers. Prostitutes. Pastors. Leaders. Teachers. Children. There is a lot that you could learn from them.
  • Work out what Sabbath will look like for you this year. And keep it.
  • Look after your body better. Eat better. Exercise. Sleep.
  • Memorise more Scripture. One verse a week seems a good place to start? Write it out and stick it everywhere so you cant miss it.
  • Simplify. Be able to pack everything you need into two bags by the end of 2008.
  • Write more. About anything.
  • Find, purchase, and read Rilke’s Letters To A Young Poet (finally).
  • Drink less coffee and more water.
  • Go to Africa in June. Take a lot of pictures. Explore. Dream. Be.
  • Learn to process film. Finally unbox the stuff Neal left you, figure out how to use it, and then start shooting film again.
  • Finally build the portfolio website you’ve been talking about doing for 2 years.
  • Find and purchase a Polaroid SX-70 for a reasonable price. Or at least one you can afford.
  • Go back to Chicago. You love that place. Explore it. Spend time with friends.
  • Remember. Everything.