# Your New Years Resolution **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941 "2002-12-15T21:16:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/1 "2002-12-15T21:16:23Z")
We’ve got less than three weeks to go until 2003. It’s time for the glorious ritual of setting yourself near-impossible goals in order to begin the new year with a sense of fresh ideals and the prospect of inevitable failure! Woo! Here are my aspirations for 2003, in no particular order: [ul] [li]Finally move back to London[/li][li]Start going to the gym again[/li][li]Continue to track my finances and save money[/li][li]Apply for emergency call operator job with the London Ambulance Service[/li][li]Be good to myself[/li][li]Continue not smoking[/li][/ul] There we go. Just four things, and they’re actually not completely impossible. I’ve had quite a good 2002 and I’m in a much better place than I was this time last here. So it’s looking good. Here’s to 2003 and more goals achieved. What do you want to acheive in 2003? ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/2 "2002-12-15T23:00:05Z")
Well, this coincides with the new year, so why not make it a resolution? I’m planning on joining Weight Watchers online once I get back from the holidays. I resolve to lose lots of weight! ---
**Author:** ![that\_darn\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@that\_darn\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that_darn_cat)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/3 "2002-12-16T02:45:14Z")
- Buy a treamill and not let the cold keep me from running. - Get serious about vegetarianism again. (been cheatin’ around the holidaze) - Go vegan for February ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/4 "2002-12-16T02:54:44Z")
The same thing I resolve every New Years Eve Binky! To Take Over The World! ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/5 "2002-12-16T04:05:35Z")
As for me, I haven’t really decided much. I’ve got a couple of ideas, but they’re more “wish-upon-a-star” type things. I’m focusing on things that I’d like to do rather than things I want to stop doing, the whole thing becomes much more positive that way, and thus easier to accomplish. [ul] [li]Spend more time getting to know some friends in particular. [/li][li]Seriously decide what direction I want to take after high school and take steps toward making that happen. [/li][li]Have good things happen to me romantically, even if that isn’t a relationship. [/li][li]Smile more and talk to people I don’t know. [/li][li]Begin working out on my brand new Gold’s Gym Total Body Workout! and get some _ **seriously toned** _ abs and a knockout ass 😃 [/li][li]Give out compliments more often. [/li][li]Commit my time to things that benefit other people more often.[/li][li]Give people rides home more often. [/li][/ul] That’s all I can think of for now, but there’s more. I think if I make it too big there’s no way I can do it all, but then I think that the more things I put on it, the greater the chances that I’ll do many of them. I think I’m going to make a nice list and tape it to the inside of my locker so that I see it and read it every morning and every afternoon, and hopefully a few times in between. -foxy ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/6 "2002-12-16T14:05:09Z")
I shall endeavor to… Read all the way through _Ulysses_ (of course, with support!). Finally do something about my horrific eating/exercise habits. Also, sort out some medical things I’ve put on the backburner for too long. Get a job outside of the house. Catch up on my daughter’s scrap book. The last even was Valentine’s Day 2001 so I have a lot to do! ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/7 "2002-12-16T14:15:38Z")
- Learn First Aid - Find out what I need to do computer-wise for bioinformatics (I’m a Biology student so that side of it’s alright) and start doing it - Finish this campsite website I’m doing, eventually, and put it online - Finally figure out what my political position is (!) and get involved in it and this one from **ladyfoxfyre** - Smile more and talk to people I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/8 "2002-12-16T14:44:20Z")
Get back on my freakin’ diet. No more beer after 9 p.m. ---
**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/9 "2002-12-16T14:57:31Z")
Debt free by the end of 2003! Well, it’s a goal, we’ll have to see how realistic it is. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/10 "2002-12-16T15:03:15Z")
I am going to learn to read music/play the piano - not with a view to anything professional, just want to understand something that is second nature to so many of my friends. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/11 "2002-12-16T16:34:17Z")
Just one thing. Close the gap between me and the one I love, in many respects. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-years-resolution/142941/12 "2002-12-16T17:12:17Z")
I can just recycle the same resolution I’ve had for the past four years–finish my dissertation. That, and not get caught in a snowdrift.