New Year’s Anti-Resolutions for Filmmakers

Elliot Grove offers some tips on how to make and keep resolutions this coming new year.

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My name is Elliot Grove. I’ve witnessed 23 New Year’s celebrations since I started Raindance in 1992. The fresh perspective the New Year brings is a great time for reflection and renewal.

Here’s where so many of us go wrong: we make resolutions

The typical resolution:
 – How many make these resolutions?
 – Read More
 – Write More
 – Ditch The Boring Day Job
 – Make A Movie
–  Stop Procrastinating

These are all positive thoughts, but they are ultimately going to fail because they can’t be measured. Far better to say:

“I’m going to write 15 minutes every day before work.”

We’re adding a specific, which is good. But what if you miss a day? What happens if there is some sort of domestic issue that prevents you from writing for just 15 minutes on a particular day?
Then you have failed and you feel like a loser. You’ve broken your New Year’s Resolution and it’s barely a week into the New Year!

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