I think the title of this thread speaks for itself. Have you kept your New Years Resolution 2007? What is your New Years Resolution 2008?
For me, I didn’t even make a resolution this past New Years because I was so depressed from my internship job that I didn’t even care. All I wanted to do at the beginning of the year was binge eat and sleep. I gained weight and loss a tremendous amount of fitness. This was especially depressing to me because I love to ride bicycles and race. I dreaded going to work because I realized that it was not something that interested me and I didn’t feel I was needed there. Around June, I resolved to quit and never put myself in that situation again. I realized that I needed to put my happiness before school or my career. Luckily, over the summer I pounded myself into shape and pleasantly surprised myself at how quickly I rebounded and became stronger than ever.
For 2008, I resolve to find a engineering job that I like to do and that makes me feel needed. Preferably with a sports equipment company.
My longer term goal is to become the Canadian National Road Race Champion.
I didn’t make one last year. I never care enough to keep them, so what’s the point? Most of the things I was trying to get done last winter were in other people’s hands (I was trying to get a work visa to come to the States), and I was too stressed about that to bother caring about diets and stuff.
My new year’s resolution had two unrelated parts.
The first was to spend more time with my husband during the week (instead of just on the weekends) - I’m doing a little better with this, but not as much as I would have liked.
The second was to be able to go upside down on a brass pole (like this (link possibly NSFW - fully-clothed girls on stripper poles)). I accomplished this feat in February. Now I’m working on making it look prettier.
Hmm, as I recall my resolution was to have more fun. Done!
I tend not to make NY’s resolutions - I figure that if I’m serious about changing something about myself or my life I don’t need to style it a NY resolution.
But last December I started doing sit-ups and push-ups. Goal was to not miss more than one day in a row. haven’t yet. (Trick - I only do a few - 24 push-ups and 84 sit-ups, so it only takes 3 minutes or so! If I’m too lazy to do 3 minutes worth of cals, well, at least I can stop fooling myself.)
I always found the concept of NY resolutions odd. Why do it then? During the course of a year when I realize something about my life or the way I’m living it needs a change, I resolve to change it- or not- at that moment. The only things I do regularly on New Year’s (besides give my honey a big smooch at midnight) are flip all the breakers in the breaker panel off and on, replace batteries in flashlights and smoke detectors, replace filters in furnace, that sort of thing.
Keep it? I cant even remember mine.
I also don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore. It’s too easy to put off making any changes if I don’t start immediately upon whatever realization I’ve made. Why wait for the new year to have an epiphany about something in my life that needs improvement?
The only resolution I made around the time of New Year’s was to terminate my membership at the gym since it’s impossible to get into until sometime around March when most people who made a New Year’s resolution eventually fall off the wagon.
