Anybody have New Year's Resolutions that They are Still Keeping?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Okay, it’s a month and a half in, and I was wondering, did anyone have New Year’s Resolutions for 2017?

If so, are you still keeping them?

I did have one, only one. And I’m trying. Really, I’m trying hard.

I’m trying to become a more positive person.

Here’s the thread I started on it. There’s some suggestions I’m still following. I’m writing down nice things that happen, and things I like about myself. I’m trying to do one of each a week. You’d think enough nice things would happen at least once a week so as not to make this resolution a struggle, but no. I’m not looking for big happy stuff. Just things that I might smile at. I’m trying.

As for thinking about things I like about myself, it just feels lame. I scribble it down, and stuff it into a pot for the end of the year reading. I don’t dwell on it. I’m supposed to, but I don’t.

And my brain still calls me an idiot, or other stuff all the time. I catch myself, and think, “No. Don’t call yourself that. It’s not true and it isn’t nice.”

So, what that means is, I screw up, I yell at myself, and then I yell at myself for yelling at myself.

So, am I more positive after a month and a half? Not really, but I can catch myself calling myself an idiot easier than I used to.

Anyone else still trying to improve?

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You aren’t yelling at yourself, you are correcting yourself.

My new year’s resolution was a new job. I have succeeded. As a happy corollary things I wanted to make resolutions but doubted I could keep up have started to happen on their own. I am cooking again, I am bring my lunch to work more, I am walking my dogs longer. I was apparently more depressed than I realized.

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Actually, Yes. Not really a NYR, but I started it very close to New Years.

I play a game of Monopoly on Pogo every day, but I’m too cheap to subscribe, so every 3 minutes there ia s 35-second ad break. I keep a set of four-pound weights at my computer, and I lift those for 30 seconds in each break, which gives me about 13 reps, about 20 times a game, or maybe 250 lifts.

I’m also too cheap to buy weights, so I use 2-liter juice jugs, and it also strengthens my hands, just to hold on to the things while lifting them. I ihave to grip them really tight, so as not to roll on my hand tendons. No idea whether it’s doing anything constructive or not. I’m 78 and its been decades since I lifted anything heavier than a jug of milk.

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I resolved (before new year’s) not to make any resolutions, aside from that one. Still keeping it.

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I made a bunch of resolutions (I always make lots so that even if I bail on 90% of them, I’m still doing more than most people :slight_smile: ). By 31[sup]st[/sup] December, 2017 I want to:

  1. Learn Python, HTML, and CSS to a high standard.
  2. Learn Javascript to at least beginner’s level.
  3. Run 5k (3.1 miles approx) in 25 minutes or less.
  4. Passed at least 3 guitar theory exams and at least 1 guitar practical exam.
  5. Gotten a level beginner’s qualification at my current job.
  6. Read a book a week for the whole year.
  7. Save up enough money that I can start learning to drive next year.

So far I’m on target for 1, 3, 4, and 5. I’ll be lucky if I can achieve even one of the others.

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I made some resolutions. I have kept many of them, I’m not Draconian.

I have been pretty good about making my bed, cutting down on French fries, meditating, expressing gratitude.

I need to do better at exercising and jogging but fully intend to honour my resolution.

I have been socializing more and making progress.

I have generally been diplomatic, which has not always been easy.

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Reminds me of our old conversation starter at the dinner table. “What’s the best thing and the worst thing that happened to you today?”

I think that’s really cool to be doing at 78, and I’m certain it’s making a positive difference.

Oh, look at Mr. Overachiever here. :wink: If you’re going to read a book a week, maybe you’d like to join us over here? Might help, anyway it’s fun.

I’m still doing my resolution, which was “drink more water”. Pretty easy, since I could hardly have drunk less. It’s not becoming a habit like I thought it would be by now. However, I have alarms set on my phone, and when they go off I fill my bottle and try to drink it all before the next one. Even if I fail, I tell myself, “It’s not over until I quit”, and so I go on trying.

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Not New Year’s specifically but as of mid-December I was diagnosed with type-II diabetes, which meant:

“go on a low-carb diet, stay on it, and no cheating. You can fool yourself but you can’t fool the blood sugar meter.”

So I have, the alternative being get sicker and sicker until I die early. Since then I’ve made enough progress that I was able to stop taking metformin (Glucophage®) and I’ve gone down a pants size.

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its been 4 years, but it was a resolution 4 years ago.