New Year Resolution

[David64]

Let's face it, some people make them every year and every year they don't follow through. Get in shape, lose weight, stop smoking, whatever it may be.
I usually don't make them, but this year, I have. 

Since May of this year I've had 4 major surgeries. It's been have surgery, spend 5 - 14 days in the hospital and then go home and recover enough for the next one. My biggest goal was to be able to mow the yard and trust me, after they've played with your internal organs, bouncing around on a mower is not fun. I haven't been fishing even once this year and for me, that's a form of torture. I'm an outdoor person and being in the house drives me right up the wall. I've barely got in any range time. Recoil is not my friend right now.

BUT, I had my last one { fingers crossed } on the 15th and I'll be back in shape to do some fishing by March when the weather gets better and my resolution is to go get me a MONSTER. I'm gonna give this guy a run for his money.

[FlyersFan]

I don't make New Years resolutions.
Just not into the New Years thing.

[DBCowboy]

I intend to continue blinking for the next 12 months.

(keeping the bar low)

 

[argentus]

Let's face it, some people make them every year and every year they don't follow through. Get in shape, lose weight, stop smoking, whatever it may be.
I usually don't make them, but this year, I have. 

Since May of this year I've had 4 major surgeries. It's been have surgery, spend 5 - 14 days in the hospital and then go home and recover enough for the next one. My biggest goal was to be able to mow the yard and trust me, after they've played with your internal organs, bouncing around on a mower is not fun. I haven't been fishing even once this year and for me, that's a form of torture. I'm an outdoor person and being in the house drives me right up the wall. I've barely got in any range time. Recoil is not my friend right now.

BUT, I had my last one { fingers crossed } on the 15th and I'll be back in shape to do some fishing by March when the weather gets better and my resolution is to go get me a MONSTER. I'm gonna give this guy a run for his money.


[Video: https://www.youtube.com/_MREekfhfnA]

I join you in celebrating your victories/recoveries this last year.   You've had a bitch of a year.    I know what it feels like to be grounded against your will, and clawing your way back up to your best life.  

I don't usually make NY resolutions.  I am determined to continue to pursue wellness and to work harder to achieve it.   At your and my age, it takes work sometimes just to keep what you have, let alone to improve.   Work isn't always fun, and it frequently is painful.   I'm going to keep working hard, and so is my Darlin'.   Dammit.    That reads suspiciously as a resolution.   I have made a list of things I want to do, but don't do, or don't do enough.   In every case, there is NO reason for not fulfilling them.  Perhaps I lack resolve.  EEEK!  Now I'm really in resolution territory.   

[Maxmars]

I have a special NY this time around...

Frankly, my last one was obliterated by personal grief...

It felt like it never happened and I've been stuck in mourning and self-flagellation forever now.

But to be perfectly honest... I never "wait for the new year" because I can't believe in commitments I pretend I'll make "later."

So many years ago, for example, when I announced I was quitting smoking one new year's eve on a dare, I started then and there... "on the spot," and it worked like a charm... 

I will do the same now ... I will not allow myself to embrace my grief as I have been... and maybe from this point forward... I will finally learn how to 'be' this new person I must be.

When I resolve... I resolve...

I love to think "I will" or "I can" or even "I should"... and it does take time to draw a deep breath before leaping into a 'change...'  but I can always push it back, find a reason not to, or simply not care enough to carry through...  

But if I really "do," all the uncertainty, the anxious planning... it all goes right out the window....

I told my wife back then... "yes it sucked to quit... but it was always gonna suck to quit... that wasn't going to get easier by worrying about "how much."

Yes, working out regularly is both going to be hard, and time-consuming.  Reading a book takes time and focus I don't enjoy using that way, I really don't want to read the Bible/Koran/Mahabharata... Ayn Rand...

These may seem trivial... but it's all about us reaching that threshold where we make a choice to 'do it.' 

If you need a starting line... don't mistake self-improvement, some dreams and goals as a race.

Winning doesn't start until you step across the starting line... and only if there is a real finish line... if you're improving something... it's a path to follow... your path... winning is just staying on it.

[UltraBudgie]

My New Years Resolution is going to be 576i!

I am going to hook up that old 27" RCA NTSC television and Super-VHS VCR I have and watch some of the Star Trek episodes I taped off the air in the 90s!

Sometime next year anyway.

HD is for lozers

[argentus]

My New Years Resolution is going to be 576i!

I am going to hook up that old 27" RCA NTSC television and Super-VHS VCR I have and watch some of the Star Trek episodes I taped off the air in the 90s!

Sometime next year anyway.

HD is for lozers

Coincidentally, we just dug our DVD player out of a dusty drawer and hooked it up.   Forgot to take the batteries out of the remote, so they were fused to everything.  We dug it out primarily to watch six DVDs:   Pass the Ammo, Undercover Blues, Quest for Fire, The Power, Team America: World Police and Rob Roy.

[ReturnofBroccoli]

Let's face it, some people make them every year and every year they don't follow through. Get in shape, lose weight, stop smoking, whatever it may be.
I usually don't make them, but this year, I have. 

Since May of this year I've had 4 major surgeries. It's been have surgery, spend 5 - 14 days in the hospital and then go home and recover enough for the next one. My biggest goal was to be able to mow the yard and trust me, after they've played with your internal organs, bouncing around on a mower is not fun. I haven't been fishing even once this year and for me, that's a form of torture. I'm an outdoor person and being in the house drives me right up the wall. I've barely got in any range time. Recoil is not my friend right now.

BUT, I had my last one { fingers crossed } on the 15th and I'll be back in shape to do some fishing by March when the weather gets better and my resolution is to go get me a MONSTER. I'm gonna give this guy a run for his money.


[Video: https://www.youtube.com/_MREekfhfnA]

Can I come too? You got the boat or we charter?

[Caligurl]

I actually made a New Years Resolution to stop smoking about  20 years ago and I stuck to it. I carried a pencil in my left hand to replace the feeling of a cigarette and immediately after eating, I would take a walk outside around the block to break the habit of having a cigarette after eating. I have never once relapsed or even craved a cigarette since that New Years day I quit. I think mentally I was ready to quit. I had also  noticed my white cat turning a nicotine color from having to be around the smoke.  Poor cat. Plus I saved at least a few hundred a month.  

[Maxmars]

I actually made a New Years Resolution to stop smoking about  20 years ago and I stuck to it. I carried a pencil in my left hand to replace the feeling of a cigarette and immediately after eating, I would take a walk outside around the block to break the habit of having a cigarette after eating. I have never once relapsed or even craved a cigarette since that New Years day I quit. I think mentally I was ready to quit. I had also  noticed my white cat turning a nicotine color from having to be around the smoke.  Poor cat. Plus I saved at least a few hundred a month.  [Image: https://denyignorance.com//images/addsmilies/refurb.gif]

Another walker!!!!  

It really does wonders, doesn't it?

Being mentally ready is a blessing...
but even when some aren't, even under stress...
they manage to quit anyway...
which is even more amazing.

People can be bad-ass when they put their minds to it.