[RD] 2019: Your Resolutions and Hoped-For Achievements

[Synobun]

What it says on the tin.

2019 is now here. If you do resolutions, what's on your list?

If you don't, what do you hope to have accomplished by the end of the year?

This can be disturbingly vague ("Be a better person!") or rather specific ("I want to hike 500 miles and not a meter less!"). It's up to you.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I never make them. Every week we transition from one day to the next. Today is different because it is actually snowing and is still cold. Also lots of people are having a holiday. I find it more useful to make decisions about change as the need arises, throughout the year.

 

[warpus]

Happy New Year!! I hope your last year was great and this upcoming one is looking promising!

I don't do resolutions but I do have on-going goals so I guess they are sort of resolutions:

- I have decided to do a backpacking tour of Vietnam at some point this spring
- I really want to fly to Pittsburgh in November and meet up with all my new/rediscovered textmode art friends at Demosplash, where they meet every year and participate.
- I vow to continue with my diet changes and to continue cooking more, eating more veggies and fish, and cutting out a lot of processed food as well as cutting down on red meat. Less salt, sugar, etc.
- I vow to visit the gym at least once a week, ideally 2-3 a week, for a leg/cardio day. I also want to try getting used to doing an upper body day at home a couple times a week.
- I have some side entrepreneurial ideas on the back burner. Those need to be finished and launched even if failures happen along the way - I need to jump forward and stop with the excuses.
- I need to continue drawing for the textmode art group I joined and improve as an artist. This means time and effort spent on this hobby
- The last months of last year were hectic. There is a long piled up chore list that I need to attend to and get out of the way before the year catches up with me again.
- I need to visit my grandmother in the next couple months, as promised.
- I need to make more of an effort to stay connected with all my friends and acquaintances that I care about. And family. As an introvert this can be a challenge.
- A cracked part of my porch needs to be rebuilt and I need to figure out how to do that. Also need to replace some boards on both of my decks. Humidifier also needs maintenance/replacing.
- I started building a personal financial audit system that was supposed to help me budget more efficiently. I need to revisit this project and see if it needs to morph into something else to be viable (or if I was just being lazy)
- Kilimanjaro 2020 will have to be more or less finalized at some point this year. I need to do a lot more research and spend a lot of time to make this expedition a success for me and my friends.
- Last year I learned the basics of Reaper and created a mashup using the software. I want to continue to learn the software and eventually collaborate with my DJ/producer friends.
- I want to continue meditating on a regular basis. I started doing so in order to help drive my high blood pressure down and it made me feel amazing, but I still have a lot to learn.
- I need to be a bit more focused at work. Maybe meditation can help. There's too many projects and a lot of chaos that aren't my fault, but in order to be efficient I need to figure something out.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Happy New Year!! I hope your last year was great and this upcoming one is looking promising!
- I have some side entrepreneurial ideas on the back burner. Those need to be finished and launched even if failures happen along the way - I need to jump forward and stop with the excuses.
- Kilimanjaro 2020 will have to be more or less finalized at some point this year. I need to do a lot more research and spend a lot of time to make this expedition a success for me and my friends.

I know quite a lot about business start ups and would love to help you think through launching any of your projects. You can pm me anytime.
If your going to Kilimanjaro, don't forget about the the Great Migration.

 

[tetley]

Canada immigration has some good incentives for startups. The best is the immediate permanent residency you can get if you can get a Canadian angel investor, but I guess that one would not apply to you if you are already in Ontario. But still you can get temporary foreign workers fast-tracked for your startup that has no legal department yet.


As for me, for 2019 I would be happy to get my SO and me to agree on what country to live in. :-O

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My only resolution is to try not to die in some stupid manner (like the incident a couple of weeks ago).

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I received my NaNoWriMo 2018 winner's t-shirt in the mail yesterday, which is concrete proof that I can pull this stuff off.

Using a goal-tracker on the NaNo site has enabled me to stay motivated to continue writing every day. I'm happy to say that I haven't missed one day of writing on my story since November 1, 2018 (yes, I wrote on Christmas and New Year's Eve and will be continuing today). Ideally, this will continue throughout the next year, and 2019 will also see a hat trick.

So: I resolve to enter, and win, Camp NaNoWriMo (April), Camp NaNoWriMo (July), and NaNoWriMo (November). I've done it twice before, so I plan to do it again.

(btw, the main story begun in November just hit 100,000 words)

 

[Traitorfish]

Not cut my hand open trying to get the wax seal off a bottle of whisky.

(I had a fun New Years' Eve.)

 

[warpus]

I know quite a lot about business start ups and would love to help you think through launching any of your projects. You can pm me anytime.
If your going to Kilimanjaro, don't forget about the the Great Migration.

I guess that one would not apply to you if you are already in Ontario. But still you can get temporary foreign workers fast-tracked for your startup that has no legal department yet.

Thanks for the support/ideas! My business projects are probably things I can at first launch myself, it's nothing large-scale that would require me to hire people (yet). Once it's time to hire people I will be hiring friends and family to start, if things ever get that far. BirdJaguar, you will probably hear from me at some point over the next couple months (but it could be later in the year)

 

[tetley]

My idea is to open beach cabanas in BC. That way when climate changes, it stops raining in BC and the Queen Charlottes turn into a tropical paradise, you will already be there. You're the first!

 

[Phrossack]

I don't make resolutions. But I do hope for a few things. Getting around to writing down my fiction ideas, bothering to read some fiction so I can sort-of understand the mystifying things like dialogue and pacing, maybe working out, etc. But I don't normally bother with doing things anymore, so we'll see.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I want to lose 40 pounds this year and avoid throwing out my back all year.

I want to begin work on a design project and hire on some engineers to work under me.

I want to have a baby.

I want to make good financial decisions for retirement, student loan payments and savings.

 

[caketastydelish]

-Earn my black belt in both Taekwondo and Krav Maga (brown in both so far).
-finish the manuscript to my novel and have it ready for publication
- pass several IT certifications (currently CCNA, A+, Network +, Security +)
- get a resume of work experience writing online articles.
- have enough money for a car again.
- start playing my piano and synths more.
- work out on a regular basis (I've been out of it lately)

 

[The_J]

- get a new job. The plan is a warm country, let's see how that goes
- Start again running. I stopped after last year's half marathon, but i am gaining weight, and would like to run the 10k during this year's marathon
- Increase deadlift weight to 130, squat again to 100
- There are several publications which need to be finished this year. Includes the last things from my PhD
- keep up with my old friends. Includes that i want to visit one in denmark, 2 in Switzerland, and I just agreed to meet with one in Paris
- Have more sex than last year. Includes that i want to have sex with an older woman

Mmhhh... i think that's it right now

EDIT:
- run another obstacle run

 

[Timsup2nothin]

My resolution this year is the same one I've made every year for...I dunno, five or six years...make someone laugh, at least once every day.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Getting around to writing down my fiction ideas, bothering to read some fiction so I can sort-of understand the mystifying things like dialogue and pacing,

Join us downforum in the Arts & Entertainment forum. Zkribbler and I rarely have a conversation that doesn't involve writing. He's posted some interesting links that you might find useful.

 

[Synobun]

As a follow-up to my post here:

• Lose more weight: I'd like to bring my weight down to 200 pounds by the end of 2019 but I'll take a failure here if it means I made up a lot of the weight with muscle. I also have some adipose issues right now that aren't being helped by my current weight loss rate (8 lbs/mo) so I may need to slow or halt the weight loss here and there over the coming months.
• Recover my credit score some more: This is tough to shoot for specifically but I'd like to raise my credit score by another 25-30 points this year.
• Enroll in college courses: I'm registered for one class right now. I'd like to register for another one this year.
• Continue my treatment plan: I have several more supplements that I need to purchase and add to my daily cocktail. I'd like to keep experimenting with dosage and frequency so that I can maximize the benefits I've already experienced.
• Triple my business income: 2018 was a great year professionally and I'd like to keep that up. If I were to triple my business income on a steady basis, I could move and fund most of my immediate needs.
• Halve my debt: I currently have about $1500 in debt remaining. I'd like to get that down to at least $1000 by the end of 2019 with a target of $750.
• Get my learning permit for driving: It's about time I get this done.

There are a few more things I'd like to do but those are the most impactful and relevant.

 

[Azem.Ocram]

1. Get in shape (preferably 180-220 lb (currently up to 270 lb) by summer, depending on muscle)
2. Get a job
3. Get my Driver’s license

 

[BenitoChavez]

First time I've ever made New Year's resolutions.

Must dos:

1) Get down to 190 pounds. I'm currently the heaviest I've ever been and I don't like it.
2) Change jobs. It can be in a closely related field but its just that I've been doing the same thing for roughly 6 years now and it is getting stale. Preferably with a move to a different city with a different company.

Nice to dos:
1) Continue learning french and hopefully have a real conversation with a native speaker sometime.
2) Travel to Chili/Argentina in July to see the solar eclipse since I missed the last one in 2017 due to bad weather
3) Read a book a month
4) Eat more vegetarian/vegan meals
5) Trade in my hunk of junk car for something nicer.

 

[Phrossack]

Okay, okay, y'all're making me look bad what with your resolutions and your hope. So I'll come up with some somewhat attainable goals of my own:

1. Get back down to between 154 and 164 pounds, or else work out enough and diet enough to maintain weight and replace fat with muscle. I'm not as heavy as I was before the mockery that made me lose it, but I've let go since my dieting paid off.

2. Either come to understand my work well enough to get a promotion or find a new job.

3. Focus more at work. My mind wanders and I'm easily discouraged when faced with something I don't understand.

4. Figure out what the hell I want to do in life. Do I sacrifice pay and living near family to teach English abroad? Go back to school for an environmental job to spend a little more time with nature in its last days?

5. Go on at least one date again. It's been too long, partly because it's hard to find someone I both like and trust (see 1.).

6. The aforementioned writing stuff. I'll have to take you up on that sometime, @Valka D'Ur .

7. Get back into practicing archery.

8. Find an affordable riding instructor. Besides dogs and friends, one of the only things that can make me smile or grin and laugh is a swift, smooth canter.

9. Get around to putting up decorations in my place. I've put it off because I don't care much and figure I don't get visitors anyway, but oh well.

10. Train my pup, and myself, right so he isn't such an uncontrollable little nut.

11. Brush up on my German and French, get back into learning Russian, and maybe return to learning Welsh.

12. In short, bother to do things I know I should be doing but have given up on.