New Year’s Resolutions

1 Jan

I figured it would be best to write this post to go up before the 1st, but things happen. I’m willing to settle for writing it before I get inebriated and celebrate the New Year.

The resolutions one sees every year are the type of statements that you just know are going to get swept under the rug when January has run its course. This creates an influx of people into the gym every year that stop going at the beginning of February or March. How is that for sound decisions?

Instead of those types of resolutions, I try to pick either things I intend to do anyway or have already started doing. Forcing myself to get new goals that aren’t in line with the ones I already have is a recipe for disaster. I’ve done that.

So, without further ado, here are my resolutions for the new year:

  1. Continue to clear out clutter and unnecessary stressors out of my life.
  2. Stretch or exercise every day.
  3. Learn Ruby on Rails and build my first application.
  4. Eat more fruit.
  5. Make a conscious effort to let things go that don’t matter.

At one month, two months, and three months, I’ll go back and see exactly how I’ve been doing with these goals.

5 Responses to “New Year’s Resolutions”

  1. Warner Onstine 01. Jan, 2010 at 10:33 am #

    As with any goals it helps to make them SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely).

  2. pixiepop 01. Jan, 2010 at 10:34 am #

    woohoo sends lots of good luck wishes! Happy 2010!

  3. A Jill of All Trades 01. Jan, 2010 at 10:57 am #

    My goals were simple this year: no time frame to have them completed, nothing I know I most-likely won’t accomplish, etc.
    Anything else will be a bonus!

  4. Dana Severance 01. Jan, 2010 at 9:30 pm #

    @Warner,

    That is one of the things I aim for. Some of the goals are a little bit more difficult to measure than others, but they’re all measurable in some way (subjective or no).

    —-

    @Jill

    I was actually trying to avoid that in my goals for the year. I have to have some sort of time frame, but the “likely going to do it” is really important. For me, not setting a date to finish something (even a tentative one) establishes a bad precedent of just getting it done whenever.

  5. Brent 02. Jan, 2010 at 9:18 pm #

    I’ve always tried to look at them not as resolutions, but a yearly audit of self-improvement. I suppose it’s an attempt to not make them seem so arbitrary and that I’m always trying to improve myself year-round.

    Have fun with Ruby on Rails, it’s fun.

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