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The first week of 2013 has gone and good, get rid of it, throw away all the notes and stamp out any ideals that it mattered. Ignore the initial stalls and wheel screeching sounds of the progress we've all already failed to start, maintain or keep good on our resolutions and plans. The fact that we remember them is the only thing that matters, not that we only succeeded in doing it a handful of times over the first six days.

I have a calendar where I track two resolutions - listening to an album a day and writing 1,000 words a day. So far, I have successfully listened to an album a day, but have only hit my writing goal 4 days. I know one day I was tired after my first day back to work and another day I went to see a movie after some overtime at work.

All I know is that it will get easier. I'll keep doing, day in, day out, and eventually my calendar will be loaded with consecutive successes. If I fail, I'll just start again.

All I know is that the work will only come through if I do the work.

Now, moving along.

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I watched HOLY MOTORS, a few days ago, to add another notch to the best movies of 2012 that have been floating around. It's a strange journey to say the least, but there's also a huge collection of things that have stuck with me.

Most notable, the intermission, where Leos Carax and a mob of accordions march through a factory playing an amazing rendition of 'Let My Baby Ride' by RL Burnside. I can't pretend I haven't listened to this song on repeat over the weekend. Soon I'll be carrying it with me everywhere I do.

In parts, the audience was completely drawn into the movie. Other times, it was raucous. The woman behind me laughed hysterically as Carax agonizingly licked the PVC woman. An Australian screamed "you brought me to an art film!" moments before the credits. Giggles. Guffaws. "WHY!?!"s. All completely fine. It felt like a movie you could scream at. Like something that you could belong to.

Knowing now that it is, in some parts, about the director dealing with his the death of his wife, I'm very interesting in taking another look.

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Good evening.

My name is Timothy Legion.

Last year, I completed my first five year plan, entitled the GLORIOUS FIVE YEAR PLAN, which was comprised of the following:

Year One - Fuck my Body - in which I worked harder and longer than I had ever done before to pay off my university debt and save enough money for...

Year Two - Asshole International - in which I backpacked Europe and eventually moved to South Korea, where I had...

Year Three - Going Rogue - and aggressively removed all distractions (not difficult to do from the absolute middle of nowhere) in order to work out ideas and eventually move back, return to school for Television and focus on...

Year Four - Aggressive First Hand Involvement - where I learned directly about working in the Television industry, eventually getting a job in the industry I wanted to be in and achieving...

Year Five - The Overman - Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Burn My Name Onto The Surface of the Moon - because my Dad told me to pick realistic goals and I figured lasers are just as "real" as anything else.

So here I am. I work in Television by Day and I write for me by night. What is usually the swan song for people who write - "It's just so hard to write when I get home from work" or "I'm just so drained" or "If I only had time to write that screenplay." - is my damned fate.

So what's next?

I have, in a very simplistic definition, achieved what I want. I work in television. I have traveled. I have goals, I have a path and I have accomplished. Why do anything besides maintain and wait to slowly move up the ladder.

The answer is press on: because not doing it scares me.

So here I launch the INGLORIOUS FIVE YEAR PLAN - the sequel to the Glorious Five Year Plan - which intends to, as all good sequels do, blow up the original.

Where the Glorious Five Year Plan was about personal growth and expansion of mind and reference, the Inglorious Five Year Plan will blow that up, forcing me to put my ideas out into the world. To write, film, edit and produce them, and shove them out.

Where the Glorious Five Year Plan allowed for saving and traditional travel, the Inglorious Five Year Plan will be about long term investing and radical travel - I will go farther, I will go harder and I will go weirder. The Sekrit Adventure Project will begin to unfold as early as Spring 2013 and will hopefully continue.

Where the Glorious Five Year Plan saw work, the Inglorious Five Year Plan will see god damned effort. I will toil, I will bleed and I will not sleep to do what I need to do to finish projects, write every day and produce.

Where the Glorious Five Year Plan was open, the Inglorious Five Year Plan will be a dirty secret. I will keep it and I will use it and I will hold it dear like my precious. And I will release info bursts - an annual publication, video shorts and other dispatches - like a fuck tape.

Where the Glorious Five Year Plan had more concrete goals than I could accomplish in a year, the Inglorious Five Year Plan will complete accomplishments and bury them in the damned ground.

My resolutions for the INGLORIOUS FIVE YEAR PLANS are as follows:

- Match ambition with work - Spend time away from screens - unplug, absorb - Move out of my house - Cut down on spending, embrace minimalism as a tool for escapism - Travel more, even if just out of the house - Develop ideas rather than allow them to stagnate - Set your own deadlines, no one else will - Embrace research to understand format, no more gut feelings outside your own work - Cut down all possessions by 1/3 - You have the body you work for, and the mind you nourish - understand that - Try something new every day - Reject the freedom to be ignorant and the liberty to be dull - No one will look after you

My Expansion Goals include

- Listen to a new album a day

- Watch the Twilight Zone series to completion

- Read 52 books

The Inglorious Five Year Plan will be selfish, self-fulfilling and self-interested. I'm working for me. For my future. And I won't allow laziness, business, or anything else to get in the way of what I want to do and who I want to be.

The Inglorious Five Year Plan starts now.