My resolution: Avoid procrastination(underlined), try to run more, get other ppl to run with, read a lot, do well in school, stay in touch with my friends who don't live terribly close to me, go camping, keep my grades up, do my homework and everything(See avoid procrastination), get myself new clothes more than like once a year. And my annual one: Be better in every way than the year before. It's what I go for. It's not a definite goal, but it's a pretty respectable one.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
Lose weight, read 300 books or stories, and cure cancer.
I think that I can accomplish the first two. Always make a stretch goal, though.
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
In no particular order: Start teaching my own dance class at least twice a month. Become more financially independent. Do more regular cleaning in the apartment to show affection for my roommates. Finish all the LDS Standard Works and Jesus the Christ. Apply to UCLA to finally finish my Bachelor's. Finish comic book for Oni. Write at least one short story I like enough to sell. Write at least one screenplay worth passing on. Lose 15. Do the splits right-ways. (Can only do left-ways.) Get headshots. Learn to krump.
Posted by adfectio (Member # 11070) on :
I don't really make any resolutions. I've found that no matter what happens, I never keep to them. I mean, I know that's kinda the joke involved with them. It just doesn't make sense to me though. I make goals each day, even though sometimes they are as general as 'Try to be a better person'. Sometimes I do something one day that I really hate, and my newest goal is to not do that again.
So yeah..... when it's all said and done, my resolution for the new year is simply, do things better.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Several years ago, I resolved to give up making New Year's resolutions. So far, I've remained steadfast in my adherence to that resolution.
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Continue to lose weight (2007 was a good year for this), sell... hm, at least six short stories (why not?), finish the novel I've been working on. At work: work hard, do my best to help the people who work under my command to succeed.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
New Year's Resolutions for me, 2008:
1. Continue to tuck down chin, add a tuck in for lower abdomen
2. Make mine an orderly household
3. Read academic philosophy on a regular basis again
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: Several years ago, I resolved to give up making New Year's resolutions. So far, I've remained steadfast in my adherence to that resolution.
Bravo, Tante! That's like the old joke about giving up Christianity for Lent.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I never took up that particular habit.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
1) Walk half an hour a day. 2) Drink some tea with Christy and chat for at least fifteen minutes after the kids are asleep. 3) Work on fiscal solvency. 4) Be more mindful of everything.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
A boyfriend would be nice.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
I like Tante's resolution. I think I'll try that.
Okay, no really --
I need to focus more of my time on family. Let's see . . . in concrete terms, that means: leaving work at the office, and choose volunteer activities that we can do together as a family.
I also need to get real firm with myself about daily physical activity. I did better last year, but there's still room for improvement.
And work with husband on getting the house remodel finished so we all live under one roof. Oooh -- what a job.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Feel free to bump this thread this time next year.
Resolutions for 2008:
1: Eat a healthy breakfast at home with wife, instead of getting Mcdonalds or Carls Jr.
2: Consistently study scriptures for 15 minutes per day. Just reading the words is not by definition studying.
3: Get my degree, and make a definitive decision to under take graduate school or secure a salaried job.
4: Pay off all my debt.
I am certain I can and will accomplish all 4 of these.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I resolve to try to enjoy and actually learn something significant in this my last year of undergraduate coursework.
I resolve to continue losing weight, I've done well this year (about 25 pounds) but I want to continue and lose the rest.
I resolve to finish a novel. I've been playing around at writing for years, and never completed a full-length project. This will be the year I do so. I've already started one, and have it completely plotted and outlined, so I have some ground work laid. I will finish it. Even if it never gets published, I want to know I set that goal and accomplished it.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
No lies! And I mean strictly zero lies, fabrications, lies of omission, white, harmless, or otherwise. Pretty difficult, when you think about it. Most people are reliant upon little lies here and there.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
The corollary to telling no lies is having a fine sense of when to speak and when to say nothing at all. Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Sure, that works for some people, but I have a thick, damage resistant head and can rely on that.
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Gain some weight. Stay in shape. Maybe getting my bench press up to 200+ would be nice.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I want to finish my novel.
Or at least write more of it.
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
I didn't mean for it to be a resolution, but I didn't get to it a month ago when I thought of it.
Exercise and write for half an hour on alternating days.
On a side note, I went to the sporting goods place for a sports bra and couldn't find any that fit. Walmart, on the other hand, had one that was just right for a fourth of the price. Go fig.
Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
1) Get into college 2) Stop talking about people behind their backs
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
Read 100 books.
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
quote:Originally posted by AvidReader:
Exercise and write for half an hour on alternating days.
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That is so fabulously reasonable. And productive. Hear, hear.
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
I've never made resolutions in January. (At least I don't think I have...) It's too cold, and mid school year I'm too tired. The goals I've been most successful at meeting--and most proud of achieving--(changing my teaching practice, starting to exercise regularly, becoming a National Board certified teacher) are all projects I've started in the summer, when I feel full of energy.
But I like what I've heard here, and in the spirit of improving myself, I hereby resolve to call my grandparents at least every other week.
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
1) Write in my journal every day, even if it's only a few lines. 2) Write creatively at least every other day, at least two pages. 3) Eat less crap & more vegetables; exercise sometimes. 4) Return to my normal weight of 120 lbs.
I'm fairly optimistic.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I want to finish my MBA, exercise more, and be more sociable. I think being sociable makes me a lot less likely to become depressed, and exercise always helps with mood.
-pH
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Have I ever told you, Pearce, how incredibly surreal it is to me to watch you getting a Masters degree?
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
No new year's resolutions as such, but...
1. I started flossing every day a couple of weeks ago. I intend to stick with this one.
2. Some time last year, or maybe towards the end of the year before (it was a gradual change), I decided to become more social, and more socially aware and adept. It's now a policy to accept every social invitation I receive unless I have a very good reason not to. Plus now I hold dinners and parties at my place semi-regularly.
3. I've been doing more handstands in random places, really concentrating on my form.
4. I talk to strangers far more than I used to, and I'd like to even further reduce my inhibitions in this area.
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A couple of observations: speaking for myself, of course, I need to try things out and see if they fit into my life/schedule/routine before I can commit to permanent changes. In the past on numerous occasions I've made resolutions that were impossible to keep for any number of reasons, and each time when I stopped keeping up I'd feel guilty about it. Not the healthiest pattern, and I suspect it's rather common.
Now I think of it as more of an experiment: I make a change and see what happens. For example, about the same time I started flossing regularly I decided to stretch every day after my shower (basic stuff, plus a minute in each of my three splits). I stopped after 11 days, not because I couldn't keep going, or even because I didn't want to, but because I decided that the benefits didn't outweigh the costs. Instead I now make an effort to be more consistent about stretching after working out. One, it's more effective, and two, it takes less of my time.
Some things I want to experiment with or accomplish at some point:
1. Write a dream journal 2. Lucid Dreaming 3. Play the piano 4. Play go regularly 5. Write short fiction 6. Learn hip hop and salsa 7. Get really freakin' good at table tennis 8. Be able to climb every route and boulder problem at Mission Cliffs 9. Choreograph a slick, stylish, and astounding juggling act 10. Climb chinese pole in Cirque du Soleil 11. Write a game that people will play 12. Learn about graphic design 13. Do half the DIY projects in Make Magazine
Thing is, I'll never be able to be a lucid-dreaming, piano-playing, 9-dan, table-tennis-tournament-winning published author who hits the clubs every Friday and Saturday night and performs 10 shows a week while coding and make-ing on the side. But I'm ok with that. I will be able to do most of these things to a greater or lesser extent, some simultaneously and some sequentially. This list will get longer before it gets shorter, and it won't drop to zero until I die. So there.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Have I ever told you, Pearce, how incredibly surreal it is to me to watch you getting a Masters degree?
No, but it's a little surreal to me, too.
-pH
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Resolved: To not forget my resolution entirely, and to keep working on it.
I resolved to quit complaining. The very first day I noticed that I complained about 15 times that day. It was bad! I had no idea that I griped so much! But even my feeble attempts to stop showed me a glimpse of this huge ocean of happiness that was being held back by my constant carping.
So then over the next few days I got gradually better. I think around day 5 or 6 I actually managed to go a whole day without complaining once, even thinking it.
But then I had to sort of define things better. It is okay to make suggestions for improvement, so long as they aren't just complaints being rephrased. It's not okay to think the complaint and not say it. It's an attitude. I want to let go of the whole idea of griping about stuff because I HAVE NOTHING AT ALL TO COMPLAIN ABOUT. I still haven't decided if saying "ouch" when something hurts counts as a complaint or if it's just a physiological reaction. What do you guys think?
<laughs> So I was all chuffed about my complaintless day but then it seems I've lapsed since then and forgotten. But I really really want to have that ocean of happiness that I glimpsed from afar. I really want to quit whining and bellyaching all the time.
How do I not forget to keep working on it?
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Tatiana, have you heard of the book A Complaint-Free World? It may look a little hokey, but I found it both fascinating and useful. I picked it up on a whim off the new books shelf at the local library. The author describes a 21-day challenge to avoid voicing complaints, and it has been extremely difficult for me. However, just paying attention to how much I have been complaining was much more importantly than the details. What an eye-opener.
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Edited to add:
quote:How do I not forget to keep working on it?
He recommends a physical marker, specifically a purple bracelet that you move from arm to arm when you recognize that you have verbalized a complaint. I just used my watch. The physical element was helpful to me, and according to the book it has been helpful for many, but YMMV.
[ January 13, 2008, 02:48 AM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
My new years resolution: 1280x800.
Oh, wait. That's my screen. Never mind.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
This is by far the hardest resolution I've ever made.
I thought I could do it easily because I was so close to honesty anyway and the only things I did that were lies were those little lies that we do everyday just as a matter of 'course' like if you really don't want to go to a party and the guy who is hosting it asks you why and you want to tell him 'oh i just had, uh, something else planned' but it's totally not true and now you have to tell him the truth aarg
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Samprimary, I do count it a lie if it saves *me* embarrassment, discomfort, whatever, and it counts as a courtesy if it saves *other people* from unnecessary hurt or discomfort. I totally enjoy the company, though, of people who bluntly tell the honest truth. I have a few friends who do that, and I find it refreshing most of the time. One thing for sure is that if they happen to say anything nice, you know it's sincere and not just politeness.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
CT that book sounds interesting. I seriously had no idea how often I complained until I started trying to stop. Today I did it twice. I count the times I think it, too. Not just voicing it. But learning to just let it go and remembering how lucky I am instead is seriously making me deliriously happy! Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Okay, does waking up grumpy count as a complaint? Or is it just a physiological phenomenon? I know at least one person who wakes up cheerful and pleasant, though I consider that a strange (if lovely) anomaly. Could it possibly be just a choice? I had no idea what deep waters I was going into with this decision to stop complaining. But I definitely see the benefits and I want to reap them now. I crave them. <laughs> So I don't want to give myself any easy outs. What is the conclusion about waking up grumpy? Is there a way to choose not to do that? Could I count it as not complaining as long as I don't actually groan or whine or weep tears and gnash my teeth? Would silent acceptance, even with eyes still slitted, and body barely moving count as not complaining?
Also, when your foot hurts badly, is it okay to limp? Or is that a form of visual complaint? And again, is saying ouch when you stub your toe or something considered complaining?
Someone else rule for me. I just don't know the answers.
Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :
I would venture that saying ouch is the reaction, complaining is when you tell everyone that your toe hurts today followed by a diatribe on the composition and location of certain office furniture. So im thinkin the motivation is the issue.
Also who is this person that's cheerful in the morning. That is not allowed. Polite I can do, (usually) but cheerful waits 'till after noon.
Posted by rav (Member # 7595) on :
To shave every day!
poor dreams of a full beard.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
If someone asks you how you're doing, is saying "I have a runny nose, but otherwise I'm fine" a complaint or a statement of fact?
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Carrie, yes I'm wondering that too! I count it as a statement of fact. I have to not use a whiny tone of voice, and preferably state it in a positive way like "my foot feels better today" if it does, or "other than my foot injury, I feel fine".
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
calaban, it's mine and Grisha's friend BunnV who posts here sometimes. Grisha can confirm that BunnV is cheerful even if you wake him from a dead sleep after only 4 hours when he hasn't slept in the previous 36 hours before that. It's uncanny. I would love to learn how to do that, if it's something that can be learned. I expect it's genetic, though, or something that can't be chosen.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Now I've expanded the scope of my earlier goals and made the hardest and probably the most important resolution of my life... to be the sort of person I'd like to see Sasha grow up to become.
Posted by Starsnuffer (Member # 8116) on :
Bump!
For those ready to make their New Year's Resolutions the thread is back!
I'm not ready yet.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Less tv and computer time.
More laundry and dishes.
Have a baby.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Do all homework this semester and not miss any classes. Usually my NY Resolutions involve a commitment to going to the gym, but I've been going regularly since August, so I'm finally free of that one.
I guess generally my resolutions are to eat healthier, continue the good work I did last semester in school, and to try and be more on time for things.
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
Last year I resolved:
quote: Exercise and write for half an hour on alternating days.
The exercise I've been off and on with (just starting back up again, so I'm only doing 10 minute routines in the morning), but the writing I was pretty decent about. My goal at the moment is at least 100 words a day, every day. I'm 13,000 words along, so I'm pretty pleased with that.
I'm hoping to step both goals up slowly. I'd like to get up to 30 minutes of exercise in the mornings and writing at least 500 words a day. I think I can do that by next year.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Write more.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by BlackBlade: Feel free to bump this thread this time next year.
Resolutions for 2008:
1: Eat a healthy breakfast at home with wife, instead of getting Mcdonalds or Carls Jr.
2: Consistently study scriptures for 15 minutes per day. Just reading the words is not by definition studying.
3: Get my degree, and make a definitive decision to under take graduate school or secure a salaried job.
4: Pay off all my debt.
I am certain I can and will accomplish all 4 of these.
1: Check
2: Check
3: Almost check, I need three more credits this semester to graduate.
4: Fail!
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Resolutions for this year.
1: Pay half of my debts off.
2: Improve my Chinese substantially this year. Acquire the ability to discuss the economy entirely in Chinese.
3: Be ready to have children within the year.
Posted by scholarette (Member # 11540) on :
Mine is the same as always- lose weight. This year I lost about 15 pounds and I would like to do better next year. My ultimate goal is 40 pounds less then I am now- which would put me at perfect weight, not just healthy. I am doing this by living on a diet (I have been doing that since October).
I would LOVE to graduate. Unfortunately, I don't really feel like I control when that happens. I am doing everything in my power to have that happen next year though. Hopefully in about a month I will have an answer on that question .I need to isolate a specific mutant and once I do, I have 6 months until I graduate. So, the soonest I would have one isolated would be February. I am also working on writing up what I already have so that when I get this batch of experiments done, I will just have to write them up and add them to the rest.
Not exactly a me resolution, but I want my husband to get a job, so I am helping him turn in applications and find potential places.
If I can do the above, then I would like to start trying to have a second baby. For the weight loss one, I am only requiring myself to lose ten pounds before I get pregnant again. That would put me at my weight before I had Bin, which is just barely healthy range.
Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :
1. dump my girlfriend
2. improve chinese
3. pass school
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
1) Get 4.0 (got a 3.85 this semester, which really frustrated me. So close.) 2) Lose about 10 pounds, or gain muscle. Either one works. 3) Present at a couple conferences 4) Write two more articles 5) Have at least one article ready for submission to a good journal 6) Stop procrastinating with the research for those articles 7) Be able to read Spinoza in Latin with the help of a dictionary 8) Continue to not have a girlfriend; they're distracting.
Posted by Starsnuffer (Member # 8116) on :
quote:Originally posted by Starsnuffer: My resolution: Avoid procrastination(underlined), try to run more, get other ppl to run with, read a lot, do well in school, stay in touch with my friends who don't live terribly close to me, go camping, keep my grades up, do my homework and everything(See avoid procrastination), get myself new clothes more than like once a year. And my annual one: Be better in every way than the year before. It's what I go for. It's not a definite goal, but it's a pretty respectable one.
1. [Success]I have avoided procrastination pretty well. I need to work on papers in a more timely way. 2. [Success]I ran *more* than in past years, also found an interest in biking I didn't expect. 3. [Fail]I had no running buddy. 4. [Success?] I read quite a bit. Pretty good I think. 5.[Attempted] contact with friends. Well. I did ok. 6.[Fail]I did not go camping 7.[Success]Grades were good . First semester of college=good. My end of highschool was also awesome. 8.[Success]Well, I was happier overall with my clothes situation, and have recently gotten some new clothes which I'm happy with. 9. [success] I think I'm pretty awesome. :-p
Posted by Starsnuffer (Member # 8116) on :
Resolutions for the coming year: Intellectual 1. Make time to read while School is happening and read a lot in general. 2. Do a summer internship thing if I decide I want to. 3. Get more involved with neurokids group at UM Physical 1. Go camping. 2. Make a standard time to exercise during school? or otherwise actual schedule to which to adhere regarding exercise. 2b. Run a 5k 2c. Ride in a bike race 3. Hand stand... Satisfactorily 4.Increase diligence regarding acne. (Facewashing, use of medication.) 5. Continue flossing and such regularly Social 1.Stay friends with and visit friends attending different colleges 2.Write more letters. One a month on average let's say. 3.Make time for prof. office hours even if I'm doing well in the class. 4.Find a more secure social place in the college world. This includes: finding a group of people I unhesitatingly call my friends. Something in the girlfriend category would be nice... (trails off) 5. Send some of those letters to my brother(or call him more often etc)
Also, be more awesome than ever on the whole. :-p
I resolve to do the above.
[ January 01, 2009, 03:19 AM: Message edited by: Starsnuffer ]
Posted by Luet13 (Member # 9274) on :
1. Quit smoking. 2. Take a break from drinking for 30 days. 3. Go back to the gourmet veggie, healthy cooking. I do love to cook and would like to start eating healthier. As in, no mac & cheese in a box, tortellini in a package, and other lazy, lame dinner options. 4. Save for an electric piano. 5. Save for a trip to see my Southern families. 6. Find musical theater in Seattle and become a part of it.
Not too bad for 2009. MUST DO IT!
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
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It's what I go for. It's not a definite goal, but it's a pretty respectable one. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
. First semester of college=good. My end of highschool was also awesome.