New Year’s Resolutions - 2010

Not sure I’m entirely comfortable doing this, but it seems like a bloggy thing to do, and it might prove educational, so here goes. Here are my resolutions for the coming year (and beyond):

1 Aggressively market this blog to college students (hint: you guys can help me do this! Tell everyone you know about this blog! Tell them to do the same!). Now that we’ve got our idea, we need people to know about us – you never know who might help, or want to be helped.

2 Get to know our “domain” (college students who struggle w/depression and other related mental health disorders) to an extent that nobody in the world has ever done before. We will do this via a combination of “hitting the streets” in-person stuff and social media (hint: at some point I’m going to ask you to help me with this too!)

3 Find a network of mentors/awesome people for our venture.

4 Make a name for myself as a slam poet in NYC. I will leverage any attention I get to do numbers 1-3.

5 Break into the NYC modeling scene. If successful, I will use the opportunity to gain insight into depression in the modeling world (it’s a big problem), and apply that knowledge to our venture. Again, I’ll leverage any attention I get to do numbers 1-3.

6 Learn how to act. I’ve interviewed and been accepted to a weekend program w/the Stella Adler Studio for Acting in NYC, and hope to one day break the mold of Asian actors being typecast as either ninjas or nerds. I also hope to one day shatter what I’ve long seen as an oppressive binary for bright young Asians – “hardcore academia” or “you’re a failure.” We’ve got a lot more to offer to this world than book smarts. Again, I will leverage any attention I get to do numbers 1-3.

So there it is. Some of this stuff may sound a bit absurd – I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I believe depression is, to some extent, a failure of the imagination. You fail to imagine the possibility for recovery, and instead become fixated on misery. To counter this, you must strong-arm these deadly mental loops and let your thoughts break free.

THINK BIG, imagine the possibility, and then take action to make that possibility reality.

I wish you all the best for the coming year!

-David

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