New Year Resolutions

Del.Monte · 01-01-2020 03:19PM #1

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_ · 01-01-2020 03:24PM

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 · 01-01-2020 03:29PM

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 · 01-01-2020 03:31PM

Less food. More move.

fineso.mom · 01-01-2020 03:37PM

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 · 01-01-2020 03:44PM

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 · 01-01-2020 03:48PM

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. :'(

01-01-2020 03:54PM

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 · 01-01-2020 03:56PM

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

01-01-2020 04:02PM

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 · 01-01-2020 05:47PM

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

Irish_rat · 01-01-2020 05:52PM

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 · 01-01-2020 05:55PM

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

HBC08 · 01-01-2020 05:56PM

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 · 01-01-2020 05:56PM

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

RebelButtMunch · 01-01-2020 05:58PM

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

Edgware · 01-01-2020 07:16PM

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 · 01-01-2020 07:59PM

Edgware wrote: »

Some of the Thai girls are very good. Very realistic

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

01-01-2020 08:03PM

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

gnf_ireland · 01-01-2020 08:04PM

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 !

02-01-2020 10:59AM

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 · 02-01-2020 11:07AM

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

02-01-2020 11:13AM

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 · 02-01-2020 11:21AM

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.

02-01-2020 11:25AM

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 · 02-01-2020 11:27AM

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

Bobblehats · 02-01-2020 11:32AM

_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 · 02-01-2020 11:43AM

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 · 02-01-2020 11:51AM

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 · 02-01-2020 01:43PM

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 · 02-01-2020 08:39PM

lmimmfn wrote: »

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

My 2020 resolution is the same as last year:

1680 x 1050 (16:10)

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