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Starr
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 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: New year resolutions? |
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Every year around this time, I do a mental review of the past year and think about possibilities for the new year. I don't plan to do this, it just kind of happens. Anyone else do this? Not resulotions as such, giving up smoking for example, lol, well, that's a perennial one, no, it's more like thinking about possible avenues to explore...
Any thoughts on this? What would you like to do in 2008? What changes would you like to make?
I'll post mine when I've thought about it a for bit longer. |
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alexbeetle
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:59 am Post subject: |
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dates don't really make much difference to me and the holiday/new year period is disrupting to normal working practices and a bit of a pain (bah, humbug and all that !!  )
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Izaak
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Joined: Jun 11, 2007
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: |
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I actually had a pretty good year this year.
I've taken up and been successful at and throughly enjoyed dancing. (Lindy Hop... burgeoning into a new obsession of mine)
I've started an exercise regime. Lost weight, AND built fitness and muscle.
Paid off a car, and traded in for a new one (convertible!!!)
Looking to the new year...
Only real thing that I would like to improve is to lose the rest of the extra weight I've been carrying. 15kilo's dropped, 15 to go. (For american's that is about 70lbs)
apart from day to day improvements that count towards life goals that are already on track there is nothing really I desperately want to change about myself.
Well, I wouldn't mind a girlfriend. But I've gone 27 years without one, I don't think one more will hurt.
So yeah.. in summary... "Lose weight!" |
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9CatMom
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| I achieved one of my goals this year-to write and send a manuscript of my story "For the Love of Samantha," about my favorite cat and all the pets I've had, and currently have, in my life. |
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Zsazsa
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Location: Upstate New York, USA
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:45 am Post subject: New Year's Resolution |
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| Izaak wrote: |
So yeah.. in summary... "Lose weight!" |
That's the same old New Year's Resolution...year after year. Does anyone ever really accomplish it? |
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sinagua
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Joined: Nov 29, 2007
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Location: Arizona
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject: nada mas |
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After writing "SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP" every December 31st for 10-15 years (my whole childhood, basically), I stopped writing New Year's resolutions. "LOSE WEIGHT LOSE WEIGHT LOSE WEIGHT" (the adult version) is equally unhelpful, in my experience.
I still try to be more mindful of when not to talk, and I still think it would be great if I lost some weight, but beating myself up about it is something I no longer do - at least not in the form of a formal list every year.
Very happy for everyone who finds these lists helpful or productive, tho. |
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Izaak
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: New Year's Resolution |
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| Zsazsa wrote: | | Izaak wrote: |
So yeah.. in summary... "Lose weight!" |
That's the same old New Year's Resolution...year after year. Does anyone ever really accomplish it? |
Well... so far so good for me. I'm half way there so it's more a new years reminder. |
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9CatMom
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I have stopped writing down New Year's resolutions, because they seem to be the same every year. It seems the lower level goals (losing five pounds) are tougher to accomplish than the higher level ones (writing a book). |
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Starr
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I hope your book does well, 9CatMom. That's a great achievement, to have actually written one. Lots of people say they want to write but don't acually do it.  |
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AspieMartian
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| I think this New Year's is the mark of a new start for me and I need to make the best of it. This year hasn't been great - I've had employment woes and lots of problems with my mother and brother. My dad died, and then my closest friend screwed me over and alienated me from my only circle of friends. I've be struggling with loneliness a lot this year. So yeah, time for a new start. Had enough negative stuff in 2007, and so I'm letting myself spend the last days of it wallowing self-pity and morbid depression. But starting Jan 1, 2008, I turn a new leaf and start thinking more positively. |
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brfandan
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to start on a new diet and exercise plan that will bring a new meaning to discipline for me.
and to, of course, socialize more.
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Brittany2907
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My most important new years resolution...to get into uni.
I want to study photography.
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poopylungstuffing
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| FORCE myself to somehow be more organised....and to improve my diet...for mental/physical health reasons....(i have already gone almost-vegetarian again)..am trying to experiment with semi-raw detox diet based on book I received for Christmas. |
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Space
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Age: 25
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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-waste less time (especially on the internet)
-be more organized
-do better in school
-meet more people/friends/women
-be happier with my life |
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Beenthere
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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I resolve to eat more chocolate.
There...finally a resolution I'll be sure to keep for once in my life. 
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