New Years Resolutions!

[Reverse Transcriptase]

Okay folks.

I've never taken New Years Resolutions seriously. I often had no need to have some kind of goal or promise to myself. If I want to do something, I'll do it, and I can decide then.

But recently there's been two things that I want a little more inner-strength on. So, at 22, this is my first time I'm going to take New Year's resolutions seriously.

1. Stop cracking my knuckles: I picked up the habit in my early teens, because my brother could do it and I couldn't. Now I do it far too often, and it kind of reduces my hand strength and causes a minor amount of pain, especially if I try to over-crack them. So I'm going to stop. Eventually the ligaments will grow stronger and I will lose the ability to easily crack my knuckles. Accidentally cracking my knuckles is excusable. (Which I've done!)
2. Don't smoke weed for a year: I've only smoked 3 times in the last 6-7 months. Every time I had too much paranoia/schizophrenia/discomfort. During my last year of college I smoked a lot and I had fun! But there was also a lot of awkwardness. And now with the intenseness of my new job I don't want to lose my edge at all. "Accidentally" smoking weed is inexcusable. Other drugs are not effected by this resolution.

Well? Let's hear yours, and your justifications. And tell us stories about new year's resolutions! And if you don't have any resolutions or stories, you can tell us why new years resolutions are stupid.

 

[flow]

Apply myself in school. Actually write papers previously to the morning they are due, properly cite my sources... get good grades in every class, regardless of how interesting it is or isn't.

Find a real job.

Get along with people who I dislike, just for the sport of it (I've played the other angle far too long).

Keep smoking weed (though perhaps, less often..).

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

I have no resolution.

 

[preilemus]

To switch over to the Discordian calendar at some point, and keep to it for at least a month.

that might be the only thing I need a resolution for. I feel as though everything else will flow naturally.

 

[warryer]

Reduce the effect my ego has over me. For too long I have let it take a strangle hold. I read about a way to overcome it. So this shall be the year. This is my #1 priority.

Among other things:

-Get a job. I need some form of income... badly

-Quit smoking (cigarettes) weed is fair game

-Figure out what I'm doing after graduation. Don't want to live in my parent's basement :\

-Read some mind expanding books. New modes of thinking are never bad.

-Regular work out schedule. No more sitting on my ass.

It's a tall order but, I know I can do it. I only need the will which, partly ties into priority #1.

 

[RubberDucky451]

Make an effort to finish things. Books, Albums, Writing.

 

[Polaris]

See if I can move within twenty centimetres of a banana without breaking into a cold sweat................

 

[shoeless]

it's cliche, but i really, really need to cut out the junk food. that's what's been making me so tired and shitty-feeling all the time. i was doing so good over the summer, i dunno what happened.

also i'd like to try surviving as a vegan for at least a month. just to see if i can, mainly.

 

[Ashenstar]

My New Year resolutions are very personal. You have been warned

Learn to come to peace with myself/love myself
There is no reason for me to be my own worst enemy when there are plenty of other idiots who are much more deserving of my wrath and loathing. Also, I due to health problems in the past I… have a rather noticeable 12 inch scar running vertically down my stomach. I have a second smaller one next to it that is also indented due to a year long infection after my third surgery that my mother refused to take me to the dr for. I have stretch marks all over and rather large ones on my hips that are about 2-3 inches long and 1.5 inches wide due to not being able to eat for 3 months at some point in my life. For a long time I have hated my physical self too much to even put lotion on my body reasoning ….. what’s the point? No more. I need to hug myself everyday instead of running from my own reflection.

Take better care of myself
This goes closely along with the first mentioned resolution. I’m rather good at taking care of others, but I will let people drain me. I adapted to my ex ex bf’s life of ill health and boredom and suffered greatly for it. This is something I need to stop. My health needs to be a priority for me to be able to accomplish the goals I want to. This includes sleeping, drinking water, working out, and cleaning up my diet ( LOTS OF GREEN JUICE!!). This is more than superficial for me even though it may come across as rather shallow.

Stop neglecting my spirituality
Where do I even begin with this one? I despise feeling like I’m Yuuzhan Vong in my existence. It’s a horrible existence to feel stripped and disconnected from the force and I need to nourish myself spiritually in whatever way I can. Part of this would mean going back to veganism, which also relates to the first two resolutions.

So there we have it. I’m sure I have more…. All I can think of on 4 hours of sleep.

 

[Dormouse]

Find motivation and apply it to... stuff.

Highschool isn't all that important, is it? I'll apply myself to things that actually interest me and have potential for future use.

Start following politics, at least a bit, just to learn how the damn system works.

Excersize more regularily... I feel shitty all winter if I don't.

Uh, pass this year and get into college? Yeah, that would be nice.

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

I could stand to drop another 30-40 pounds but I've already been losing weight so it's not really a new years resolution.

I think others here have expressed something along the lines that they will do what they feel they need to do when they feel they need to do it. New Years is just a day like any other. It's the time I have to begin remembering to date my checks differently and nothing more. While I guess I can understand the psychological impact of a new year that makes people resolve to to do things, it's just not for me.

 

[cheese]

To stop being so goddamn sexy.

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

To stop being so goddamn sexy.

Impossible! You might as well tell water not to be wet or fire not to be hot or....wait, you're sexy?

 

[bluesquid]

I have to lose weight too.

I have a precor elliptical and weights. Just no excuse. I have to stop being such a fat drunken bastard.

 

[cheese]

Impossible! You might as well tell water not to be wet or fire not to be hot or....wait, you're sexy?

Sure. Just ask Adaire.

()

*edit
I think it's important that RT notes explanations are even sexier than I am.

 

[Mello]

I need to defeat myself.

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

I need to defeat myself.

How do you do that? And in what aspect do you need defeating?

(also at first I read 'defecate')

 

[hope]

get motivated
become good at guitar
become 1 dan by next year
look at this site next january
work out

 

[Anthile]

1. Continue The Odyssey even if no one cares.

2. Start writing the novel I've been planning for years now.

3. Play some visual novels.

4. Finish the RPG system I'm working on.

5. Bother Fleur even more.

 

[walfin]

1. Be more assertive.

2. Be more alert.

3. Try to improve people reading skills.

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

3. Try to improve people reading skills.

So at a used bookstore I found this book: "People Reading" by Beier and Valens.

It has some interesting conclusions, such as: Impotence is a form of aggression, emotions are a means of controlling others. Violence is a message. History is an excuse. How I react to you tells me how you want me to react. Developing a problem can be a solution. Anger is the fastest way to get others involved with you.

I haven't read much of it...

 

[Mello]

How do you do that? And in what aspect do you need defeating?

(also at first I read 'defecate')

I need to outsmart myself. And definitely not defecate.

 

[echoplex]

Resolutions are unnecessary; everything is already in motion.

That being said, I'm terribly awful and I need to stop that already. It's going to be tough. I feel helpless and clueless and I think I always have. I continue to use humor to mask this, and I should probably stop, but I find it almost impossible to seriously face reality without people around me to care. Nothing seems to matter -- except that I really want things to matter. I don't care if it's "real" or not, I just want meaning, passion, purpose -- if only for a little while. Where do these things come from? What are these ingredients I seem to be missing that others seem to have? Am I just a loser? (I can live with that)

/confetti

 

[Ermine]

I should probably be more realistic and call these New Year's Aspirations.

- get into the habit of exercising regularly
- budget my time wisely so I can do everything I want to do on a regular basis (exercising, guitar, piano, art, photography, writing, reading, and then school and/or work)
- be more social to the point that it's actually comfortable
- be more proactive

I've had these aspirations for years, but they're just as relevant

 

[Van]

Not to make any resolutions because I'll just break them.

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

I just got a friend of mine, who has smoked weed this january, to join me in the "don't smoke weed" new year's resolution. I'm not sure how long he's going to do it... hopefully a year, but he might only have a few months in mind. Either way, I'm happy.

I just learned that some of the people in my Burning Man - Seattle group are tokers. And they play Go while smoking! My resolution is going to come under fire...

(Feel free to continue to update this about your own resolutions.)

I have one more new year's resolution:

3. Write a poem every week, and post it on the INTP forum. They will be due on sundays. If I don't have a new poem to post, I am allowed to find an old poem from high school or college work and post that instead. (I'll run out of those pretty fast, though, and should only be used as back-ups.) I was inspired from the encouragement I got on my Tide poem. And please, expect a lot of them to be shitty.

 

[Ashenstar]

Resolutions wouldnt be resolutions if they weren't tested. Ha that's gotta be the most intelligent thing Ive said all day.

I want to add volunteer work for myself. It will be good for me and the people I help. I literally don't have the time at the moment.....bit dammit I will find a way to help people! My school would probably have some ideas. I know there is a big sister program or something like that here. However, I question how si-kologocally healthy I am for kids. lol

 

[Chimera]

Sculpt a dragon.
Kick my self-worth up a few notches.
Eat more. At least a full meal a day.
Sleep more. At least four hours a night.
Be more confident or apathetic (whichever works) in social situations--screw social norms or expectations.
Enjoy my youth rather than focus on its limitations.​

I think that's pretty much it.​

Resolutions wouldnt be resolutions if they weren't tested.

I lol'd. C:​

 

[Ashenstar]

^ Good to know someone is laughing at me with me.

 

[Chronomar]

1. Read all the books I own again

2. Update the Financial Plan of Epic Financial Wins (FPEFW) so that it becomes even more winninger! (FPEFW is a saving, earning, spending, and investing plan I made for myself. To add extra fun, I wrote it up like a congressional bill and passed it unanimously--I even had a gavel)



3. Do the work I need to do on time


4. Develop OCD / optional INTJ skills

 

[Traianus]

The usual suspects for me I guess. Getting rid of vices and working my personal finance plan.