1. Save $$$$$$. Build a good nest egg. ( Hopefully) 2. Im ashamed in saying this. But WTF.. Here I go.. Quit smoking.. Im trying my best.. Im down to 5. I can do it.
I have never been good with resolutions. I find that if I don't make a specific resolution it doesn't bother me as much. This year the goal is more for health and sanity reasons than because of the new year.
My plan is that I am just going to do my best to better manage my life. Try to get more sleep, spend more time with my son, etc. Say no more and make more time for me to relax. With me, it's always the best laid plans go awry. That's life.
Good luck in the new year Naseem. I know how much you need a good year and to be free of all of the bad things in the past.
DD I hope all goes well with your appointment today. I have been thinking about you and sending my thoughts and wishes for a more peaceful year.
#1 I will be thankful (to God) for whatever comes my way this year.
#2 Be honest with myself about how I treat people.
#3 Share
I personally want to re-learn all my Math skills unused since college. Read classic books.
Physically I want to eat better and grow what I eat, butcher whatever I raise as table fare, and feed my body instead of having a set 3 meal plan or whatever.
Compete in more triathlons and do the Ironman in Hawaii next year with my brother.
It's a way to stay focused on a goal and also a primal escape where all you got is you and the road. Amazing what becomes important at the point where you break through the mental blocks and unleash your brain to push you through. I know you know more than most about it Pat.
I just finished reading Born to Run by McDougall. A great read for anyone.
I'm so jealous jarhead! The only time I see myself running is if someone is chasing me!
I never make resolutions. This year though, I have a lot!
1. Get better organized, I haven't updated my checkbook via Quickbooks all year long!! I end up going to the CPA as late as I can in October. Not this year, I plan on making it before April 15!!
2. To grow stronger religiously
3. Quit letting my family bug the crap out of me. They are who they are and they will never change.
4. Start working out more consistently.
Good luck to everyone else and their resolution(s).
i say this every year. since i'm saying it again this year, you can see how well it goes. try to cut down on cussing and lose weight. same as every year.
i almost feel like resolutions are something created by hallmark, but without the cards....like you feel compelled to do it....though 'resolutions' might have originated with the fitness industry as all you see are specials on exercise equipment and 'healthy' foods!!!
having said that....i'd like to organize my puter files....i'd love to stop procrastinating when it comes to anything but especially school work....and to organize my house....
better over time management but i have had issues with that all my life and i know it's due to my anxiety and cuntmother....i feel that if i can't complete a task in one sitting i am full of fail and no matter i won't do it good enough.....it is very very hard to break the big rusting mental chain of the 'all or nothing' mentality.....
to got back to walking, so I can get back to running. I think if I did this, I would feel better about myself and then other issues would not be issues anymore.
My dentist told me y'day his wife makes cabbage for New Years, for luck. he is fabulously wealthy. I guess cabbage=money! He said he never noticed a difference when they didn't have cabbage for New Years. And he asked me if I have that. I said I was going to now! I never do and I am the unluckiest person there is, me & my daughter. Like a black cloud hangs over us all the time. I don't love cabbage, but I will be trying it. rox
The closest I come to making resolutions is to want to do something, then let the moment present itself. That works for me. My goals for this year are like some from other posts. More gratitude, optimism, tolerance and fortitude. More sleep and rest. Like jarhead, I've been wanting to relearn my math skills for years, and have several texts to help me, but it's not a burning desire. I have started to grow some of my own food but it will be mostly greens. I'm going to do some of my own car maintenance so I can keep it for another ten years. It's the only car I've ever owned from the showroom so I want to make it last. My secret burning desire is to get outdoors again. I used to hike and ski but got sick and stayed indoors for the past 15 years. Few things make me as deeply happy as being outdoors. I did one weekend of crosscountry skiing and got really cold and tired, so I'll have to go slow. Ava's mommy and jarhead - you guys can DO it, wishing you both complete success!
I already quit smoking (it has been month and half) so I wanted to try something not as hard.
I think I am going to work on our family budget. I have never had a computer program to do it. I am going to hunt around for a good one (Quicken maybe) and really see where the money is going.
try to be shallow and not tell people how to live their lives, they don't listen anyway! lose some more weight and save some money! write on my blog i started last year! Have a Great New Year DD! xxoo bima
Jarhead, I don't run, I never liked that, but, I know what runners high is from endurance activities. Yeah, I understand pushing yourself to a goal and having a brain break through. I hope you take pics for us when you do the Ironman and Tri's. That'd be very cool and inspirational to the rest of us.
Ava's mom, buy some hard candies and gum and put the smokes down! You can do it for the next few months. YOU CAN. Don't tell yourself you're quitting, just say it's temporary and when the baby gets here, then decide.
Oh, and get out Ava's baby pics and imagine blowing smoke in that sweet face. That'll do it. LOL. Don't be ashamed, you're trying and we're here for ya.
Barbara and Nina, those are particularly good ones. And good luck to the rest of you. Snark too because she sensibly doesn't make one..lol. Okay, I have to go to work and I'm going to tell people not to touch or hug me today. Warning: Your Tarot reader has lung mung! Do not waller.
To quit smoking. Today is the 4th day since I stopped - I hope I can continue. One day at a time (and sometimes it really is a minute or second at a time...). Hard, hard, hard.
Good luck Melissa. It is hard, you can do it! I don't think I can at this point in time. But, I've cut down some. Too bad I can't get pregnant. No wait..lol.
Naseem-- I hope this year is a beautiful one for you. Jarhead--I understand the desire to relearn math. I started that a few years ago and loved going through the algebra books I worked on. I had a teacher in a women's course who told me that many peoples' brains are simply not ready for math until they are in their 30's or later. Then it becomes much easier to understand. She had gone back in her 40's, I think, and gotten her degrees in math. I am sending good thoughts your way in your running endeavors.
As for resolutions, I have many, but the main ones are: Sort out all the crap in this house, and either commit to a garage sale/yard sale, or donate it to goodwill. No excuses. Get my husband to part with the extra van and pickup truck. I'd rather have the RV pad open. Organize the shed so I can get more of DH's tools/crap in it. Till and amend a larger part of the backyard for a bigger garden than last year.
Good luck to Ava's Mommy, too, in your efforts to give up smoking.
Fuck micro soft updates. They can't make me do that. Bill Gates aint the boss of me. I'm just gonna put all my pics on disk and wipe the son of a bitch hard drive. :)
And I can already tell you that my 2011 new year's resolution will be to lose all the fucking weight I am quickly gaining by eating the whole time... gawwwd I hate this...
I've just decided I have to be brutal with all this crap. The hard part will be getting my husband's stuff organized. He doesn't like anyone touching his things.
forgot one, gotta apply to grad school and take the GRE next month! I must resolve to take the practice tests and read up on vocab words! this ties in with my chronic procrastination!
I'm really thinking about giving up the diet coke and switching to ice-T. I believe the coke is eating away at my enamel. Or, maybe I'll just get straws, I haven't decided yet.
thanks dd and everyone. Yes its very hard I had to do it last time. But once ava was born a month later I was smoking. My hub smokes my parents both smoke. Atleast im not around smoke alot at work. Its all smoke free. Also alot of place are smoke free. We dont smoke in the car. Also living with my hubs mom she hate smoke and has us go outside. She hates that I smoke, but I cant just one day quit. Not when my mom is puffing away on the freaking phone every 10 mins.
Oh the candy thing.. Im addicted to it. They say smoking is a nervous cond and oral fixation. But I can deal without having something in my mouth. I'm doing it everyone. Thanks for the good luck
I'm one of those people that hate resolutions too. Not that it stops me from making them - i just usually forget what they were by february! I do want to start watching my weight though. I bought an accurate scale (not the one my mom has that says I'm 14 pounds lighter than i really am) and I'm watching my portions - no snacking. I am so tired of feeling like shit and not being able to wear 75% of my clothes. My long term goal (as in no time limit, but before I really start the best years of my life) is to get to a size 14/16 and to 180lbs. That's still overweight for my height, but at my most (now) i'm 240 and a size 18. Not fun. :-/
DD. My son bought me one of those E-Cigs last year for Christmas. I kept putting it off and putting it off. I finally settled down to using it and it really was working.= which amazed me since I am a heavy smoker. Then both of my batteries broke (cheap ass batteries made in China) only to find out they were discontinuing the model I had (due to problems with the batteries. The thing is amazing. It still contains nicotine but there is no smell and you still blow out "smoke." (water vapor) And, you can use it anywhere, restaurants, bars, grocery stores. You're just not getting the tar and smoke into your lungs. I personally know about 5 people so far who have quit smoking using these.
I plan to get another model with the money I received for Christmas. You can go to www.e-cigarette-forum.com for reviews on different models and youtube has some videos up.
Nina - I LOVE your New Year's resolutions, and I also love the fact that you have the same ones year after year. It is more like a commitment to a beautiful and well-lived life than a NYR. I am inspired by that.
I don't know what mine will be. I have been so lazy that I haven't even decided what to do this evening. I don't really like NYE crowds. I am actually tempted to just sit in the outdoor hot tub with a glass of champagne and stare at the moon.
Take it a day-at-a-time and keep a daily log of the days you stuck to your plan (whatever you choose to do). Chia seeds will help, I use them myself, and they do make you feel fuller while hydrating at the same time, and they control some of your sugar levels. I am happy with mine.
Keeping the log helps you remember how well you did and build on that willpower to add more good weeks.
Those that are quitting smoking, this tip helped me. I did the hypnosis route, and he told us to eat four oranges a day for the first week. Some b.s. about cleaning out the toxins. but it worked - I haven't had a cigarette in over ten years.
qtrfan - have bought dozens of oranges... luckily, I love oranges. I thought I would give it a try, it can't hurt.
I am quitting "cold turkey" - no patch, gum, Chantrix (or whatever it's called) - I did the gum and patch in the past and they never worked so thought I should just go for it and die for the first few days...
Day 5 and it is not getting easier.... It is during the day but, when night falls, forget it, I am craving, craving, craving for one. I am putting $5 in a jar for each day I don't smoke.
Love your resolutions, up to the triathalon part, lol! My life has changed so much in the last 8 months and I'm going to just keep rolling with it. I'm going to stay close with the friends I've made and reconnected with. My ex (now officially, yay!) cut me off from so many people with his issues that I'm loving having lots of friends.
Good vibes going out to the quitters, yay! I can't imagine something so difficult as quitting smoking.
I only have two. I am going to stop letting my mother raise my blood pressure and I am going to clean all the junk out of my computer. How about you?
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I'm hoping for a better year overall. The past two years have been hell on earth.
Naseem, I wish for you, to have those awful people out of your life and your son's life..forever!
1. Save $$$$$$. Build a good nest egg. ( Hopefully)
2. Im ashamed in saying this. But WTF.. Here I go.. Quit smoking.. Im trying my best.. Im down to 5. I can do it.
I have never been good with resolutions. I find that if I don't make a specific resolution it doesn't bother me as much. This year the goal is more for health and sanity reasons than because of the new year.
My plan is that I am just going to do my best to better manage my life. Try to get more sleep, spend more time with my son, etc. Say no more and make more time for me to relax. With me, it's always the best laid plans go awry. That's life.
Good luck in the new year Naseem. I know how much you need a good year and to be free of all of the bad things in the past.
DD I hope all goes well with your appointment today. I have been thinking about you and sending my thoughts and wishes for a more peaceful year.
It's just an MD apointment. It won't amount to anything. I just want some antibiotics.
#1 I will be thankful (to God) for whatever comes my way this year.
#2 Be honest with myself about how I treat people.
#3 Share
I personally want to re-learn all my Math skills unused since college. Read classic books.
Physically I want to eat better and grow what I eat, butcher whatever I raise as table fare, and feed my body instead of having a set 3 meal plan or whatever.
Compete in more triathlons and do the Ironman in Hawaii next year with my brother.
I strive to live like that every day.
Jarhead
triathelons and Ironman? Seriously? That made me hurt just thinking about it. Good luck, Jarhead.
It's a way to stay focused on a goal and also a primal escape where all you got is you and the road. Amazing what becomes important at the point where you break through the mental blocks and unleash your brain to push you through. I know you know more than most about it Pat.
I just finished reading Born to Run by McDougall. A great read for anyone.
Jarhead
I'm so jealous jarhead! The only time I see myself running is if someone is chasing me!
I never make resolutions. This year though, I have a lot!
1. Get better organized, I haven't updated my checkbook via Quickbooks all year long!! I end up going to the CPA as late as I can in October. Not this year, I plan on making it before April 15!!
2. To grow stronger religiously
3. Quit letting my family bug the crap out of me. They are who they are and they will never change.
4. Start working out more consistently.
Good luck to everyone else and their resolution(s).
~Palmetto Girl
i say this every year. since i'm saying it again this year, you can see how well it goes. try to cut down on cussing and lose weight. same as every year.
i almost feel like resolutions are something created by hallmark, but without the cards....like you feel compelled to do it....though 'resolutions' might have originated with the fitness industry as all you see are specials on exercise equipment and 'healthy' foods!!!
having said that....i'd like to organize my puter files....i'd love to stop procrastinating when it comes to anything but especially school work....and to organize my house....
better over time management but i have had issues with that all my life and i know it's due to my anxiety and cuntmother....i feel that if i can't complete a task in one sitting i am full of fail and no matter i won't do it good enough.....it is very very hard to break the big rusting mental chain of the 'all or nothing' mentality.....
to got back to walking, so I can get back to running. I think if I did this, I would feel better about myself and then other issues would not be issues anymore.
My dentist told me y'day his wife makes cabbage for New Years, for luck. he is fabulously wealthy. I guess cabbage=money! He said he never noticed a difference when they didn't have cabbage for New Years. And he asked me if I have that. I said I was going to now! I never do and I am the unluckiest person there is, me & my daughter. Like a black cloud hangs over us all the time. I don't love cabbage, but I will be trying it.
rox
I don't believe in making resolutions.
If a change needs to be made, I'll make it immediately (after thinking about it for a long time).
Just another day that opens the door to a new year.
I love new years.
I resolve to do the same things every year.
*To laugh as much as possible.
*To love my inner circle with loyality and respect.
*Enjoy great times and share my deepest thoughts with my hot hubs.
*Last but not least to allow those I care about the freedom to be exactly who they are and not mimic some expectation I may have for them.
I want to be as honest with other people as I am with myself, but not to the point of hurting them in any way.
I want to completely cut off the few toxic relatives who have made me a nervous wreck and a self-doubter for all my years on earth.
To try to get healthier in body and spirit.
The closest I come to making resolutions is to want to do something, then let the moment present itself. That works for me.
My goals for this year are like some from other posts.
More gratitude, optimism, tolerance and fortitude. More sleep and rest.
Like jarhead, I've been wanting to relearn my math skills for years, and have several texts to help me, but it's not a burning desire.
I have started to grow some of my own food but it will be mostly greens. I'm going to do some of my own car maintenance so I can keep it for another ten years. It's the only car I've ever owned from the showroom so I want to make it last.
My secret burning desire is to get outdoors again. I used to hike and ski but got sick and stayed indoors for the past 15 years. Few things make me as deeply happy as being outdoors. I did one weekend of crosscountry skiing and got really cold and tired, so I'll have to go slow.
Ava's mommy and jarhead - you guys can DO it, wishing you both complete success!
I already quit smoking (it has been month and half) so I wanted to try something not as hard.
I think I am going to work on our family budget. I have never had a computer program to do it. I am going to hunt around for a good one (Quicken maybe) and really see where the money is going.
Good Luck with all that are trying to quit!
try to be shallow and not tell people how to live their lives, they don't listen anyway! lose some more weight and save some money! write on my blog i started last year! Have a Great New Year DD!
xxoo bima
Thanks Nattie!.
Connie45; Look into the book I mentioned. At least read the reviews. It has a lot to do with the benefits of running. "Born to Run" by McDougall
Good luck everyone. Progression is the key. Slow steady gains.
Jarhead
Jarhead, I don't run, I never liked that, but, I know what runners high is from endurance activities. Yeah, I understand pushing yourself to a goal and having a brain break through. I hope you take pics for us when you do the Ironman and Tri's. That'd be very cool and inspirational to the rest of us.
Ava's mom, buy some hard candies and gum and put the smokes down! You can do it for the next few months. YOU CAN. Don't tell yourself you're quitting, just say it's temporary and when the baby gets here, then decide.
Oh, and get out Ava's baby pics and imagine blowing smoke in that sweet face. That'll do it. LOL. Don't be ashamed, you're trying and we're here for ya.
Barbara and Nina, those are particularly good ones. And good luck to the rest of you. Snark too because she sensibly doesn't make one..lol. Okay, I have to go to work and I'm going to tell people not to touch or hug me today. Warning: Your Tarot reader has lung mung! Do not waller.
I do not know why people do that anyway. Geesh.
To quit smoking. Today is the 4th day since I stopped - I hope I can continue. One day at a time (and sometimes it really is a minute or second at a time...). Hard, hard, hard.
Good luck Melissa. It is hard, you can do it! I don't think I can at this point in time. But, I've cut down some. Too bad I can't get pregnant. No wait..lol.
Naseem-- I hope this year is a beautiful one for you.
Jarhead--I understand the desire to relearn math. I started that a few years ago and loved going through the algebra books I worked on. I had a teacher in a women's course who told me that many peoples' brains are simply not ready for math until they are in their 30's or later. Then it becomes much easier to understand. She had gone back in her 40's, I think, and gotten her degrees in math.
I am sending good thoughts your way in your running endeavors.
As for resolutions, I have many, but the main ones are:
Sort out all the crap in this house, and either commit to a garage sale/yard sale, or donate it to goodwill. No excuses.
Get my husband to part with the extra van and pickup truck. I'd rather have the RV pad open.
Organize the shed so I can get more of DH's tools/crap in it.
Till and amend a larger part of the backyard for a bigger garden than last year.
Good luck to Ava's Mommy, too, in your efforts to give up smoking.
You're going to clean the junk out of your computer? Does that include all the malware you've gotten from never updating Windows?
Fuck micro soft updates. They can't make me do that. Bill Gates aint the boss of me. I'm just gonna put all my pics on disk and wipe the son of a bitch hard drive. :)
Thanks, DD.
And I can already tell you that my 2011 new year's resolution will be to lose all the fucking weight I am quickly gaining by eating the whole time... gawwwd I hate this...
Christina, organizing is always good. I try, but, I'm not good at it. Still, just getting one drawer cleared out makes ya feel better.
I've just decided I have to be brutal with all this crap. The hard part will be getting my husband's stuff organized. He doesn't like anyone touching his things.
He might get mad!
forgot one, gotta apply to grad school and take the GRE next month! I must resolve to take the practice tests and read up on vocab words! this ties in with my chronic procrastination!
I just want to be a better person in the new year.
I'm really thinking about giving up the diet coke and switching to ice-T. I believe the coke is eating away at my enamel. Or, maybe I'll just get straws, I haven't decided yet.
thanks dd and everyone. Yes its very hard I had to do it last time. But once ava was born a month later I was smoking. My hub smokes my parents both smoke. Atleast im not around smoke alot at work. Its all smoke free. Also alot of place are smoke free. We dont smoke in the car. Also living with my hubs mom she hate smoke and has us go outside. She hates that I smoke, but I cant just one day quit. Not when my mom is puffing away on the freaking phone every 10 mins.
Oh the candy thing.. Im addicted to it. They say smoking is a nervous cond and oral fixation. But I can deal without having something in my mouth. I'm doing it everyone. Thanks for the good luck
AM, have you heard of that steam ciggie? It's expensive, but, might be worth it.
I'm one of those people that hate resolutions too. Not that it stops me from making them - i just usually forget what they were by february! I do want to start watching my weight though. I bought an accurate scale (not the one my mom has that says I'm 14 pounds lighter than i really am) and I'm watching my portions - no snacking. I am so tired of feeling like shit and not being able to wear 75% of my clothes. My long term goal (as in no time limit, but before I really start the best years of my life) is to get to a size 14/16 and to 180lbs. That's still overweight for my height, but at my most (now) i'm 240 and a size 18. Not fun. :-/
DD. My son bought me one of those E-Cigs last year for Christmas. I kept putting it off and putting it off. I finally settled down to using it and it really was working.= which amazed me since I am a heavy smoker. Then both of my batteries broke (cheap ass batteries made in China) only to find out they were discontinuing the model I had (due to problems with the batteries. The thing is amazing. It still contains nicotine but there is no smell and you still blow out "smoke." (water vapor) And, you can use it anywhere, restaurants, bars, grocery stores. You're just not getting the tar and smoke into your lungs. I personally know about 5 people so far who have quit smoking using these.
I plan to get another model with the money I received for Christmas. You can go to www.e-cigarette-forum.com for reviews on different models and youtube has some videos up.
Naseem - Wishing you a really great 2010.
Nina - I LOVE your New Year's resolutions, and I also love the fact that you have the same ones year after year. It is more like a commitment to a beautiful and well-lived life than a NYR. I am inspired by that.
I don't know what mine will be. I have been so lazy that I haven't even decided what to do this evening. I don't really like NYE crowds. I am actually tempted to just sit in the outdoor hot tub with a glass of champagne and stare at the moon.
Hi Corina,
Take it a day-at-a-time and keep a daily log of the days you stuck to your plan (whatever you choose to do). Chia seeds will help, I use them myself, and they do make you feel fuller while hydrating at the same time, and they control some of your sugar levels. I am happy with mine.
Keeping the log helps you remember how well you did and build on that willpower to add more good weeks.
Good luck!.
Jarhead
steam ciggy nope cant say I have. I know one things the smell is really getting to me and I only take a few puffs than throw it out.
Those that are quitting smoking, this tip helped me. I did the hypnosis route, and he told us to eat four oranges a day for the first week. Some b.s. about cleaning out the toxins. but it worked - I haven't had a cigarette in over ten years.
Jarhead: Chia seeds? Like you
grow on those head things? Never heard about eating them....
Jarhead, I bought the chia seeds on your recommendation. I am at a loss however to determine how much to use in a day.
I don't have a problem with the taste, but can you tell me what quantities to take daily?
Thanks!
qtrfan - have bought dozens of oranges... luckily, I love oranges. I thought I would give it a try, it can't hurt.
I am quitting "cold turkey" - no patch, gum, Chantrix (or whatever it's called) - I did the gum and patch in the past and they never worked so thought I should just go for it and die for the first few days...
Day 5 and it is not getting easier.... It is during the day but, when night falls, forget it, I am craving, craving, craving for one. I am putting $5 in a jar for each day I don't smoke.
Sorry for the rant...
Jarhead,
Love your resolutions, up to the triathalon part, lol! My life has changed so much in the last 8 months and I'm going to just keep rolling with it. I'm going to stay close with the friends I've made and reconnected with. My ex (now officially, yay!) cut me off from so many people with his issues that I'm loving having lots of friends.
Good vibes going out to the quitters, yay! I can't imagine something so difficult as quitting smoking.
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