2015 New Year's Resolutions

[Gary Childress]

What are your New Year's resolutions for 2015?

So far I have the following:

1. Find a part time job where I will make enough to pay my bills but also give me enough free time to accomplish tasks 2 and 3.

2. Read at least 1 essay or chapter per day from one of the books in my collection.

3. Get more exercise. (I'm going to join a tennis club in my area once I find employment.)

 

[James Stuart]

1. Same deal. Part-time job to spend more time with my kids.

2. Back to exercising every single day. I live next to a jogging path, yet don't jog. I need to start, and get back into weight-lifting.

3. Write a novel. I've had an idea for approximatly five years, I need to get it done.

4. Finish off the last lingering remnants of my degree.

 

[Archbob]

1. Achiee Bankai
2. Go SSJ2

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Continue last year's resolution...make someone laugh every day.

 

[Kyriakos]

Getting a paid job is clearly on top of my current list. Hopefully it will happen this January, and it is 10000% needed currently...

 

[GoodSarmatian]

For the year:
Better Job
More exercise
kess alcohol
Finish that java textbook I bought months ago
Pick up the pace of my writing

For January
No alcohol in January (except dfor christmas with my parents)
Finish at least one chapter of one of my three "novels" I've started writing

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I need to get that other research project up and running. I'll also aim to spend less money and save more. And may as well aim for something high (with the same probability as the UN Millennium Development Goals being met in their entirety): I want to go on a trip to Geneva before the end of 2015.

 

[downtown]

* Lose 10 pounds
* Find a way to move back to Chicago/Madison/Cleveland without leaving my industry
*Complete writing that I am proud of that has nothing to do with sports/work

 

[The_J]

- publish 3 manuscripts (okay, 2 are written, so that should be possible)
- continue with sports (and ideally get rid of some fat; != lose weight)
- get even more active
- get a GF before I turn 30
- until the point above: Ask out at least one girl/month
- need to do at least one thing which counts as "crazy", so that I have something to tell in case someone asks me that again

Sounds all very likely, besides #4 and #6.

 

[Kennigit]

I have an odd one. I've noticed people kind of like to make fun of small mistakes in speech immediately after they happen. In a mocking way. Like if native english speaker does a little r/l mixup.

I never want to do that again.

 

[bhsup]

I'm not making any. They never pan out and screw the disappointment when they fail to.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Make really simple ones then.

 

[Hakim]

If you make new year resolutions, cosmic powers will conspire to make you break them.

A better alternative is to start or stop doing something next year and keep at it as long as possible, as an endurance test. That way, every day is a victory.

 

[Phrossack]

I'm not making any. They never pan out and screw the disappointment when they fail to.

Same.

Make really simple ones then.

Then I'd be humiliated before myself--either I'd fail to accomplish even a basic resolution, or I'm so pathetic that I can only succeed at basic resolutions.

I've just given up trying.

 

[bhsup]

Same.

But you're too young to be that cynical!

 

[CavLancer]

Continhue to impruve my speling.

 

[sophie]

*Apply to Grad School
*Read More Regularly
*Gain 10 pounds

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I'm not making any. They never pan out and screw the disappointment when they fail to.

I didn't keep count, but I'd say I hit at least three days out of four on mine this year and I consider the whole thing a great success...so 'never pan out' is not really accurate.

 

[Phrossack]

But you're too young to be that cynical!

Not quite- I'm about 25% finished with life, and in any case I've had enough disappointments to know better.

 

[Kennigit]

setting the bar low is the best way to get success unless doing limbo