Sure, you can read many how-to books, online tutorials, and even pay for photography classes, but right here, right now, I’m going to give to you the all-inclusive, ultimate guide to becoming a better photographer. To top that off, it can be done in just 1, yes ONE, easy step. The how-tos, tutorials, and classes can help, but without implementing this crucial 1 step process they are useless.

Step 1: Take more pictures!

The End

1. Finish up and email my articles (need to do that today actually)
2. Read for fun, not because I want to pass my classes. Starting Tropic of Cancer today.
3. Relax, if that’s at all possible.
4. Start my Lit. paper or at least decide on a topic.
5. Publish this post that’s been sitting in drafts for months.
6. Shopping maybe?
7. Look for new job? I had been thinking about getting a second job just for the summer, but now my job is changing in a way that means $20 less every week, so now I need a new job altogether.
8. Sun.
9. Remember what I’m forgetting.
10. Wii!
11. Clean out my reading queue.
12. Taxes, ugh.
13. List stuff on ebay.

New WordPress theme here, come check it out and let me know what you think. I’m not settled on the header image and the colors just yet, I still have a few things going through my head.

I also added content to the articles page that had been sitting there all blank and lonely. It now has the 2 most recent issues of my college’s newspaper that can be read in full.

Speaking of articles, I finished reading Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography and even already wrote my review of it. Unfortunately, it’s way too long and I’m going to have to cut it down a bit.

I’m proud of myself for keeping to my goal of not procrastinating (at least for the most part, I should be studying right now though), but I’m really not doing so good on my goal of taking a photo every day.

How are your goals going?

Here’s what I’ve come up with for my goals for 2008 so far:

I guess that’s it for goals. Now if I were to make a resolution, and I usually don’t, it would be the same as a couple years ago: a never-ending quest to find beauty in everything, aka find God’s love in everything.

This whole time I had been thinking that school started back on the 7th. Today I looked at my schedule and it starts back on the 10th. Sure, it’s great to have those extra days free, but now I have to tell my cousin she was right.

In a recent post on his blog, Joshua Longbrake has inspired me to create more goals for myself. As I commented on his post, “I have the bad habit of not making goals for fear of failing, but maybe it would be better to make a long list of goals and fail some of them while accomplishing others instead of no goals at all. So, you have inspired me to make my first goal: 1. Make more goals.” (Yes, I just quoted myself).

Tomorrow I will reevaluate my 43 Things and add to them bigger (better?) goals.

Have you made any goals? Resolutions? Are they really that different? Yes, and no, and an undeniable yes.