2008 Resolutions Thread!

[QueenAdrock]

Same idea from last year. Did you accomplish your resolution from last year?

What's your new one for this year?



I moved the hell outta Maryland, so I was successful. I don't really have any specific resolutions for this year, other than to try to lose some weight before May. I always gain in the winter and then have to try to lose in the spring.

[ms.peachy]

I was just thinking about this earlier when writing out my christmas cards. We have a lot of friends we almost never see as they don't live in london anymore, and most all of us have a rugrat or two, so it just seems like we never find time to get together. So I decided that my resolution this year would be to get out of London more often and go visit with friends, maybe like one weekend a month or something.

[beastieangel01]

I am definitely more organized, not perfect at it yet, but a vast improvement.

And I am going to be moving out of town before the month is over. So I got those covered


As far as 2008 is concerned; I just resolve to be as positive as possible and hope for the best while living in a new town.

[Freebasser]

I resolve to take a packet of prawn cocktail crisps with me to work to eat tomorrow at lunch.

[mikizee]

eat shit

gain weight

start smoking

[Caribou]

Originally Posted by Caribou

- Get into university
- Party more/have more fun
- Not spend my money on useless junk and save up to take trips around europe
- Get my drivers license

and the classic:
- lose weight

- No. Failed.
- Hell yes. I'm having a great time.
- Sort of. I've learnt that stuff is expensive since I'm living on my own, but it doesn't seem like I'll be travelling any time soon.
- I'm doing fine using my bike + public transport
- Nope. Same weight. I like food too much.

New resolutions:
- Go to bed earlier and get a normal day rhythm
- Work on my university stuff and not start at the last moment
- Not smoke more than I already do
- Not lose contact with my friends at home
- Stop gossiping at work

[Randetica]

didnt get cocked cause thats so me

well ill try spending more time on the net, now thats a challenge!

[paul jones]

have a wank

[mikizee]

Originally Posted by paul jones

have a wank

If I made that resolution I'd be up to the year 3550.

[HEIRESS]

-Get caught up on my corespondance studies
-Cut back on my hermitting by about 50%
-Keep working on maximizing my fitness level
-Put a damper on my useless spending so that i can buy a house in next year or two

[cosmo105]

-get mad crazy involved and neck-deep in school, volunteering and campus activities related to my major
-work toward getting a job at a hospital
-start dressing like a grown-up
-learn how to cook pancakes

[hitmonlee]

i wouldn't mind 1280 x 1024

[cosmo105]

what is so wrong with having goals that you have set for yourself to accomplish within the next year?

edit: now i look silly

[TimDoolan]

Originally Posted by cosmo105

-start dressing like a grown-up

All my clothes are from junior high. I'm 24, I hope I hit puberty soon.

Originally Posted by cosmo105

-learn how to cook pancakes

Pancakes are all I know how to make.

[hitmonlee]

Originally Posted by cosmo105

what is so wrong with having goals that you have set for yourself to accomplish within the next year?

edit: now i look silly

hahaha
i read over the 2007 thread and i had the exact same rant so i decided to edit.

if you have a goal, why wouldn't you begin it RIGHT NOW. why say "oh i have this awesome idea/improvement/goal but i won't start it until january 1"

time is nothing but a construct, years don't actually MEAN anything. new years eve doesn't mean anything besides the dates clicking over which is kinda cool, but today is a day just as tomorrow is a day, just as january 1, 2008 will be just a day.

[cosmo105]

of course time is a construct but it's something on which we all operate and i'd be willing to argue that humankind NEEDS milestones and markers, and the changing of the seasons and a cycle around the sun is as good as any hmm? years definitely mean something in that sense. humans need rhythms.

besides, i don't plan to work in a hospital at this very moment but i know it's something i want to start doing sometime later on in the next year or so. so that's that. and pancakes, well, that will come. i hope. god, i hope.

[hitmonlee]

Originally Posted by cosmo105

of course time is a construct but it's something on which we all operate and i'd be willing to argue that humankind NEEDS milestones and markers, and the changing of the seasons and a cycle around the sun is as good as any hmm? years definitely mean something in that sense. humans need rhythms.

what load of shit, people can't bear to quit smoking or whatever it is they want to do so they promise that they will do it on new years and they never do and then they "resolve" to do it again the next year.

if you have resolved something in your head you should start now, not on new years, you might have changed your mind by then.

besides, i don't plan to work in a hospital at this very moment but i know it's something i want to start doing sometime later on in the next year or so. so that's that. and pancakes, well, that will come. i hope. god, i hope.

since yours is a goal to work in a hospital sometime next year - i'd have to say that is simply a goal, and not a new years resolution. since you've already decided to do it, it is a goal you have NOW, a CURRENT goal, not a new year's resolution.

[ms.peachy]

Originally Posted by hitmonlee

what load of shit, people can't bear to quit smoking or whatever it is they want to do so they promise that they will do it on new years and they never do and then they "resolve" to do it again the next year.

if you have resolved something in your head you should start now, not on new years, you might have changed your mind by then.

I don't agree. Life gets a bit hectic around the holidays - there are social events, family obligations, things at work get all screwy because people are taking holiday time and there's less work time anyway because of the end-of-December time off so for many there's a greater sense of urgency about reaching deadlines, or for students, there are exams... I feel like, it's totally fine to let that whole swirling mass spin itself out like a storm, and approach your goals fresh from the start of the New Year, because January and February are long, cold, dark months where not much happens - it's the perfect time to focus inwards and assess your own priorities.

And if you change your mind on 5 Jan about something you had set as a resolution, then so what? It's your life, you're allowed to say "actually maybe this isn't as important to me as I first thought."

Personally I don't set a laundry list of resolutions, I just try to identify maybe one or two things that I think would improve the quality of my life and see how I can go about making that happen. If it's something that's practical to start straight away then I will (as I have done this year, a few weeks ago), but if I just go "aaaaaargh, can't be doing with that just right now" then it can wait.

[roosta]

- take formal meditation instruction
- start regular meditation
- use meditation to develop the power of levitation, moving objects with my mind and invisibility.

[camo]

- enjoy myself more (in general)
- Re-ignite my apetite for design (it's slowly fading)
- see my grandad more

[hitmonlee]

Originally Posted by ms.peachy

I don't agree. Life gets a bit hectic around the holidays - there are social events, family obligations, things at work get all screwy because people are taking holiday time and there's less work time anyway because of the end-of-December time off so for many there's a greater sense of urgency about reaching deadlines, or for students, there are exams... I feel like, it's totally fine to let that whole swirling mass spin itself out like a storm, and approach your goals fresh from the start of the New Year, because January and February are long, cold, dark months where not much happens - it's the perfect time to focus inwards and assess your own priorities.

its summer here, remember? january is the most happening month of my life.

And if you change your mind on 5 Jan about something you had set as a resolution, then so what? It's your life, you're allowed to say "actually maybe this isn't as important to me as I first thought."

so what's the point in making a New Year's Resolution then?

Personally I don't set a laundry list of resolutions, I just try to identify maybe one or two things that I think would improve the quality of my life and see how I can go about making that happen. If it's something that's practical to start straight away then I will (as I have done this year, a few weeks ago), but if I just go "aaaaaargh, can't be doing with that just right now" then it can wait.

so its like a list of stuff you may or may not achieve and may or may not begin around january 1?

[ms.peachy]

Originally Posted by hitmonlee

so its like a list of stuff you may or may not achieve and may or may not begin around january 1?

Sure, why not? You seem to feel that in order for the process to be meaningful, it has to be decisive and unchanging, and that it's about a timeframe and an outcome. I don't see it that way - for me, the value is in the process. Setting the goals, identifying the behaviours that would lead to the desired outcome, and assessing along the way to see how it's going, if there needs to be any modification.

You are of course correct in saying that the 'starting line' need not be 1 Jan; it is only one possibility but it isn't an entirely arbitrary choice either, certainly not for those of us in the grip of winter when it comes along. Hey if it doesn't suit you, then, you know, that's cool, you do what you like; I know people who make their New Year's resolutions to coincide with their birthdays, which certainly makes sense as well as far as markers and milestones go. But just because the concept of a 1 Jan resolution doesn't work for you personally, doesn't mean it's not a valid choice for others.

[hitmonlee]

i just dont understand why changing things has to labelled. why aren't they just resolutions? it makes no sense to me.

[hitmonlee]

well how'd you all go?

[Freebasser]

Bum a bum (spitroast a hobo?)

[ToucanSpam]

My Resolution is to make sure none of you complete your resolutions.

[AAPSTUDIOS]

-Try to stop Professor Spam from ruining our new years resolutions...

[AceFace]

last year my resolution was more of a declaration. we declared it "Year of the Show" and swore to see as many bands as we could. i think it worked out pretty well.

this year my resolution is to lower my expectations of others. i get so spazzed out about things. i usually get my feelings hurt if my good friends don't get just as excited or show interest in things i find interesting. i need to learn not to let others effect my excitement for something.

[Yetra Flam]

okok so i need to get a decent paying job, with benefits. something i can live off.
and my own place soon. it's hard not having my own room and my own space to do things, and sleeping on a couch.
and yeah, get stuff. i left all my stuff behind and i hardly have any possessions at all.
and meet people and make friends. that's pretty important.

[Yetra Flam]

oh yeah and i have to somehow find a way to fit in and compete with new york girls.
i've been ridiculed for some of the things i wear, so i don't look new york enough