New Year Resolutions

Del.Monte

I always make a few (usually the same few) and file them away in my wallet to be viewed at the end of the year in disgust. I never tell anybody as I grew up believing that you would never keep them if you told others. However, I am breaking that rule today as I have already broken one hardy annual , swearing - seven times - by Midday (!) and I'm on my own at home.

Three of the expletives were shouted at Newstalk before I could reach the radio to unplug it. Desperate in their never ending quest for sensationalist misery they carried a piece on their news bulletin about all the inmates of a monkey house in a German (?) Zoo being burnt to death in a fire! A slow news day!!!!!!! I think I can cut down a lot of my swearing by listening to a lot less of Newstalk, RTE and Today FM in 2020. Now there's a resolution that I may well keep.

_Kaiser_

Don't set out with anything in particular, but this thread might be a nice time capsule for this day next year, so off the top of my head:

- Save more (by more, I mean have more than a CR balance in the account at the end of the month)
- Sort out the current stresses in work one way or another
- Meet up with friends more and try to do more than just work-home in general during the week
- Get a minor medical procedure I've been putting off sorted

That'll do.

anewme

Del.Monte wrote: »

Desperate in their quest never ending quest for sensationalist misery they carried a piece on their news bulletin about all the inmates of a monkey house in a German (?) Zoo being burnt to death in a fire! A slow news day!!!!!!! /quote]

Can’t comment on the cursing....

but I wouldn’t call that slow news.

That story is on all the News Channels.

A lot of animals dying tragically including chimpanzees, orangutans and two gorillas, as well as fruit bats and birds.

Caused by a firework or one of those stupid burning Chinese lanterns.

Poor animals.

MMXX

Less food. More move.

fineso.mom

Buy less, save more. I have enough clothes. I really don't need anymore.
Also, continue a resolution I made last year to say yes to more things, whether that's meeting friends/family or joining clubs and groups. I joined a choir, a drama group and a football club last year. Delighted with myself.

MMXX

fineso.mom wrote: »

Buy less, save more. I have enough clothes. I really don't need anymore.
Also, continue a resolution I made last year to say yes to more things, whether that's meeting friends/family or joining clubs and groups. I joined a choir, a drama group and a football club last year. Delighted with myself.

Can you PayPal me €100 please?

Albhabeth

Giving up fish and seafood because of the environmental impact. It was already tested when I could smell someone in my apartment block frying some gorgeous kippers for breakfast.

Albhabeth

Albhabeth wrote: »

Giving up fish and seafood because of the environmental impact. It was already tested when I could smell someone in my apartment block frying some gorgeous kippers for breakfast.

Bollocks.

New Year's ambition: Reach 2021.

Gwynplaine

Drink more water.
Try, and stop eating after 8pm

I would love to get healthier (not being massively unhealthy would be a good start) but I’m of an age now where weight won’t come off from eating right (well over, once you hit 35 it’s all over) and I won’t be exercising, so I’m sort of wondering if it’s worth the hassle. Eating better wouldn’t hurt though. And if I could start drinking water it would help also.
I’m going to listen to that Allen Carr book that someone mentioned in another thread to see can I give up smoking too. If it works it works, but I’d be highly dubious.
An achievable one though is to start a course or two. Definitely want to widen my scope for job prospects.

Idiot boy

This year I'm going to try something iv always been curious about.....but kept to myself......

Irish_rat

It was a decent year. Obviously continue to read, eat less sugar and bread. Focus on my new career. Enjoy my time off when I can.

JohnnyFlash

Avoid seeing or having to talk to my absolute wagon of an ex-wife.

HBC08

Im going to try to increase my carbon footprint.
Im going to take more flights,already heading to Athens next week.
Fcuk you Greta.

lmimmfn

I prefer 3440x1440 ultrawide
... Oh wait..

RebelButtMunch

Take up yoga to improve flexibility.
Cycle the royal canal.
Change jobs.
Maybe take a course in either philosophy or geology

Edgware

Idiot boy wrote: »

This year I'm going to try something iv always been curious about.....but kept to myself......

Some of the Thai girls are very good. Very realistic

Idiot boy

Edgware wrote: »

Some of the Thai girls are very good. Very realistic

Yummy....tell me more....

Yeah, try to sort out my diet and finances..

gnf_ireland

6 years ago I had a very simple one - donate blood once a quarter. I kept it up until last year when things got a little hectic in life.

This years main resolution is to go back to donating blood. Its 60-90 minutes once every 3 months that can save peoples lives. No excuses for not finding the time really.... Lets hope I can maintain it for at least another 5 years !

Del.Monte

Del.Monte wrote: »

I never tell anybody as I grew up believing that you would never keep them if you told others.

I have heard that research - which I admit I have not yet read myself - suggests the opposite. That telling people your goals actually correlates with a higher success in sticking to pursuing them.

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Drink more water.

Drink when you are thirsty. The whole "You need X litres of water a day" thing has been massively overstated and exaggerated. Usually by bottled water companies.

And often by misrepresenting studies that do exist. Such as - in one particular common case - quoting one sentence from a study and ignoring the sentence that came after it.

McCrack

Deleted User wrote: »

I have heard that research - which I admit I have not yet read myself - suggests the opposite. That telling people your goals actually correlates with a higher success in sticking to pursuing them.



Drink when you are thirsty. The whole "You need X litres of water a day" thing has been massively overstated and exaggerated. Usually by bottled water companies.

And often by misrepresenting studies that do exist. Such as - in one particular common case - quoting one sentence from a study and ignoring the sentence that came after it.

Lol

If you drink water only when you are thirsty you're already dehydrated

McCrack

McCrack wrote: »

Lol

If you drink water only when you are thirsty you're already dehydrated

Not so at all no. Your body will mediate your thirst long before you reach a state of dehydration. Thirst and dehydration are not the same thing. That's like saying "If you only eat when you are hungry - you're already starving".

Millions of years of evolution have left our bodies pretty much capable of telling us what we want and need in a timely manner.

_Brian

Over a few years I’ve been working at increasing activity and dropping weight.

I’ll just continue with that.

I’m 16kg lighter than at my heaviest and if I dropped another 4kg I’d be at my goal weight. It’s taken a few years but it’s subtle changes rather than any mad fad diet.

You must get enough from other drinks anyway (coffee, Pepsi, beer, etc) or from food. I haven’t drank a drop of water in well over a month, no exaggeration, and I’m still upright. Maybe if you were exercising or something and sweating a lot it would be required.

josip

Spend less time on boards and find my great great great grandfather.
He's an elusive f***er

Bobblehats

_Brian wrote: »

Over a few years I’ve been working at increasing activity and dropping weight.

Good for you. Indeed with a new decade upon us I hope we can resolve all our indifference in becoming more active and setting a new template, for our future generations so here’s to a brighter future; and a new dawn. Cheers!

SusieBlue

Go to bed earlier on weeknights.
Put my clothes back on the hangers in my wardrobe when I'm done trying them on.

The second one may seem trivial but it causes me massive problems. I regularly curse my laziness when I can't find yet another thing that I flung into the back of the wardrobe in a ball, rather than hanging it up again.

granty1892

best advice i can give is never set BIG goals set small goals ie goals for the week/ month. eg this week im gonna run 2k, this week im not gonna eat out 5 times, this week im only gonna go onto facebook on the weekend. Improving 1% every day is more achievalble than improving 100% in January and then come March its back to all the bad habits..........
Life is a marathon not a sprint

PS read 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear it will transform your life

Vita nova

Get the flu vaccine. This is the second year I've had the flu or a really bad cold over Christmas. Haven't been able to enjoy my two weeks off or get any work done around the house.

Anesthetize

lmimmfn wrote: »

I prefer 3440x1440 ultrawide
... Oh wait..

My 2020 resolution is the same as last year:

1680 x 1050 (16:10)

Mehaffey1

Get up to a decent amount of light exercise every week and get out and about a bit more.

AMKC

My New Years resolutions oh shock hooror I actually decided to have some this year are to watch less news because its depressing but its also like a drug, to read less papers they just stress me out, to exercise more, to eat less sweet crap and to get out more.

So far I am doing good on the first two but not so good on the second two lol.

branie2

I never make them

AMKC

SusieBlue wrote: »

Go to bed earlier on weeknights.
Put my clothes back on the hangers in my wardrobe when I'm done trying them on.

The second one may seem trivial but it causes me massive problems. I regularly curse my laziness when I can't find yet another thing that I flung into the back of the wardrobe in a ball, rather than hanging it up again.

Oh I know exactly how you feel. Just last night I was looking for a nightdress but gave up and just wore slip I had out. I really need to go through all mine again both wardrops and drawers.

Vita nova wrote: »

Get the flu vaccine. This is the second year I've had the flu or a really bad cold over Christmas. Haven't been able to enjoy my two weeks off or get any work done around the house.

Awe thats crap. Hope you got over it. A lot of my family also had it. Thankfully by some miracle I did not get it.

freshpopcorn

HBC08 wrote: »

Im going to try to increase my carbon footprint.
Im going to take more flights,already heading to Athens next week.
Fcuk you Greta.

Even over Christmas I made an extra effort to wrap presents, buy cards, etc.

Purple Mountain

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Avoid seeing or having to talk to my absolute wagon of an ex-wife.

I hope she's bleeding you for a five figure maintenance sum yearly

The Crazy Cat Lady

Save more
Get up earlier
Read more books
Spend less time on social media
Be more internet safe
Deal with medical issues
Ask to do more autism presentations in locations
Move out of my apartment
Open up more, I have a habit of saying 'im fine' when im actually not so if im not ok im gonna try to tell people whats wrong

Quantum Erasure

lmimmfn wrote: »

I prefer 3440x1440 ultrawide
... Oh wait..

4K, Boomer...

Aisling(",)

I want to go to at least 12 live shows/concerts.

Watch 52 films (don't have to be new just new to me).

Aiming to drop the weight I put on in 2019.
Even if I don't get the full amount gone I'd be so much happier to be lighter than I am now.

Oh read more once I finish my exams for this year at Easter. I find it so hard to read for fun after studying.

gnf_ireland

Aisling(",) wrote: »

I find it so hard to read for fun after studying.

This is very true and the same if you read a lot as part of your working day. Relaxation time needs to be different from work/study - and herein is the challenge!!

I decided to reduce digital time over Christmas and read a book instead. Finished it yesterday - but who knows when I will pick another one up, as I tend to read a good bit as part of the day job !

Good luck with the resolutions...

ILoveYourVibes

Stop eating junk.

KungPao

Reduce my beer drinking way down to only 6 nights a week.

Burp.

KungPao

Jimmy Paprika wrote: »

No ejaculating in 2020.
Eat two eggs every day.
Eat liver once per week.
Eat oysters as often as I can.
Pass CFA level 3 in June.
Vitamin D3 and K2 supplement every day.
Massage scalp every day and apply pig lard to the scalp 3 times per week.

That first one, seriously?

https://media0.giphy.com/media/l0HlUrpYVnLLk5F3G/source.gif

Greyfox

I can almost run 5k now and havent played football in 9 years, joined the gym again yesterday and my new years resolution is to start playing 5 a side football regularly in a few months.

I have actually told loads of people about this so I'll feel like an idiot if I fail. I'm going to keep watching motivation videos over the next few months to make sure I don't slack off. It's the diet that's always the hard part for me but i'm determined to focus on a good diet this time

Idiot boy

Gonna sleep with an older woman....these young wans ain't all their cracked up to be ...

Anesthetize

KungPao wrote: »

That first one, seriously?

https://media0.giphy.com/media/l0HlUrpYVnLLk5F3G/source.gif

Imagine the feeling on 1st January 2021 after edging for 12 months, and then releasing one.

Recently I made real something I before only joked about. I started a Jedi Academy. And the move I made to start it could literally have resulted in my death

It was a thing that I did to sort out some local "scum" kids - irredeemables as people started to call them after a certain election.

But the effect it has had - and the lives it has transformed in my small corner of the world - leads me to think that a goal for me for 2020 is to actively start a more public "Jedi Academy" around here. We have some people - we even have a curriculum. So it is a goal I think I can focus on.

The Tetrarch

I decided to list my books in a database, and arrange them logically in bookcases. 371 listed, lots more to drag around the house.
Librarians get my respect. Tough job.

The Tetrarch

The Tetrarch wrote: »

I decided to list my books in a database, and arrange them logically in bookcases. 371 listed, lots more to drag around the house.
Librarians get my respect. Tough job.

OOOK? oook! ooOK!