Are you following your New Year's Resolutions?

[Canis Lupus]

Bleh, first poll of the year 2004! Okay, I ran out of ideas, so humor me:

Are you following your New Year's Resolutions? Have you broken some of them already? Did you throw them out the door the moment January 2 arrived? Or are you one of those cynics who think New Year's Resolutions are crutches?

You know the drill ... clickety click...

[Wacheif]

I didnt make any , if i wanna set a resolution ill do it anytime not just new years :P but ya , as i said didnt make any to follow or break

[BooRadley]

I only made one, and it was to get my debt load in order. Because I'm an idiot of the highest order, I managed to get $20k in unsecured debt accumulated. That's the main thing. I also have a pick-up and a motorcycle, but there are only a few grand left on each of those, and they actually provide value. It's the $20k in almost completely pointless debt that I wanted.

Well, last week I found out my grandma is trying to liquidate her estate before she dies so the government won't get it, and I'm to be getting a check for almost eleven grand. w00t.

That's half that craptastic debt. I can apply the approximately $300/month that it will save me to the other half, and bring it down significantly quicker.

[compukeith]

Originally posted by Wacheif
I didnt make any , if i wanna set a resolution ill do it anytime not just new years :P but ya , as i said didnt make any to follow or break

ditto

[jimbo]

i dont see the point of a resolution.
your never going to do what you said anyway
so why even bother

[BooRadley]

Originally posted by jimbo
i dont see the point of a resolution.
your never going to do what you said anyway
so why even bother

In the few years leading up to last year, I had gotten up to 240 pounds, and all I did was drink, shoot pool, and program or post on the Internet. Last years resolutions were to get into decent shap, start living a little, and pick up old hobbie that I had lost.

I lost 60 pounds, started motorcycling, bicycling & working out again, started reading (non-technical stuff), sculpting, & drawing again, picked photography back up, and started going out with new people who enjoyed something other than shooting pool or getting drunk.

Because I wanted to not be disappointed with myself by the end of the year, I kept focused on it. This year is to get my finances back in order. There's a possibility I can be completely debt free again by years end.

It's just a matter of setting some soft goals for the year to keep yourself focused on what's important to keep up with in the short run. I have a tendancy to forget the short run in light of the bigger picture, but constant f-ups in the smaller picture kind of propagate themselves into the long run.

[laborat]

My resolution was to have as much fun as possible in 2004 and I am faithfully keeping to that one... :)

[J Man]

I wish I made some so i'd have something to follow for this new year. BUT i didn't so yeah.

[BooRadley]

So how many of you posted in either of the ones below? Last post 1 year and two years ago? How many kept their resolutions?

http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&forumid=70&threadid=4938

http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&forumid=70&threadid=12661

[AltronHGX]

I made a resolution--to make a resolution :smoke:

[b00tz3xor]

My new years resolution is imposible

[Spider]

Then why praytell did you resolve to do it?

I had multiple resolutions, and normally I'm like a few others up there who had said they'll just make a resolution when the time is right not because of the new year. But it's tradition to do so. So next year pick something you need to do and make it your resolution.

Anyway, it's far too early in the year to decide if they'll all pan out or not.
Some of them are already done or are in the process though.

[b00tz3xor]

I was trying the 6 imposible things before brakfast thing on this one :)

[BooRadley]

Yeah. Mine was to get my bills in line, and I wanted to get broadband this spring, and probably a new machine. My grandma died and gave me 16 grand, so I'm paying off 15 grand of the bills, the majority of it, and bought a new machien, and have the cable guy coming to install this weekend.

:rock:

[Lynn Terry]

I'm sorry to hear that your grandmother passed, BooRadley.

It sounds like you are really making progress lately on a lot of personal goals - congrats to you for setting those goals and for continuing to follow through! (neither an easy feat for most!)

I started 2004 frustrated, and determined to get focused & organized, both personally and professionally. It took me the first three weeks of January to find a breakthrough... but on a good roll now! :)

[KiThirster]

I already forgot half of my resolutions.

One of them was to exercise and eat healthy; so far I've been following that one!

[BooRadley]

:rock: I've been working around 60-70 hour weeks quite a bit, almost every week, in fact, and just sent 10k to my last credit card. I'll only have the interest from this month to pay next month. I have 3k left on my motorcycle and a couple grand, if that, on my truck. DAMN it felt good to send that check off, as odd as that may seem.

I did good because I promised myself a new digital SLR as soon as I paid all the credit cards off, so as soon as I sent that check, I went out and got a new Nikon D70 (in cash, of course, no credit for me for a long time). Double-plus good. Now I have no debt and a cost-free (after the initial investment) hobby. Ung.