With the new year approaching, though I'd ask everyone, do you make resolutions for the new year?

I have tried in the past, never kept them. Not sure If I'll try again this year.

So, what are yours for 2024?

I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. I find that if I don’t have the willpower to change something - what the hell will a new year do?

We are ready to change when we are truly ready. A new year has nothing to do with that.

Im torn part of me wants to find a way to get a home on a small plot of land in the mountains. Another part of me wants to move where I can easily see both my daughters and travel the country and see places in a small RV. Right now, the midway point is Cheyanne Wyoming between them both. Well, that's not exactly in between but it's the closest place with a decent metro area.

Nicotine will be gone forever as from the 1st of January 2024.

It is a long story that I might share hère one day but damned well worth it...

SCREW YOU NICOTINE....

Kindest respects

Rodinus

No resolutions for the new year.  I make changes year round as I see that they are needed.  I don't see anything special about New Years.  Sorry.  Not a holiday for me.

(12-28-2023, 08:35 AM)FlyersFan Wrote: No resolutions for the new year.  I make changes year round as I see that they are needed.  I don't see anything special about New Years.  Sorry.  Not a holiday for me.

Same.

I find when I plan something like that, it's much harder. Don't know why, but one unplanned moment resolving to do something...it just happens.

I intend to hang around to wave goodbye to 2024 on January 1, 2025.

(12-28-2023, 05:22 AM)Rodinus Wrote: Nicotine will be gone forever as from the 1st of January 2024.

It is a long story that I might share hère one day but damned well worth it...

SCREW YOU NICOTINE....

Kindest respects

Rodinus

I quit 23 years ago on Jan. 1, 2001

It can be done.   I tried for many years.   What finally worked was cold turkey and a quit smoking support website.  

The trick:   you can't have one, not a single puff, or it wakes up the dormant nicotine worm in your brain.  I even avoid 2nd hand smoke like the plague because of how little it takes to set up a craving, after all these years.   Very rarely unless I get around a rude smoker and cant escape.  

Best of luck to you, and PM me before you give in and we can talk behind that nasty worm's back.

(12-27-2023, 06:32 PM)Elevatedone Wrote: With the new year approaching, though I'd ask everyone, do you make resolutions for the new year?

I have tried in the past, never kept them. Not sure If I'll try again this year.

So, what are yours for 2024?

I almost always do a resolution, because I consider it an affirmation of my truest desires based upon the last year.  

Thus, I have resolved to be more kind to people who are frickin' irritating;  they don't know better, and it does neither of us any good to go to the wall.   

I have resolved to judge less.   I am human and I judge people, but not sure if I've earned the right to do so;  I have done a lot of bad stuff in my past, and those I have judged have probably done less.   I don't think judgement belongs to me, or really, any of us.  

I am also going to stop eating bacon.   It has simply gotten too expensive.   It's not that we can't afford it, it's just that we don't want to afford it.   My Bride and me are on the cusp of "retiring".   I put that in quotes, because it doesn't really mean much down here in the islands.   It pretty much means the point at which you stop being paid for what you do, but doesn't mean a time in which you travel and live the high life.   We both love bacon.   U.S. $15.00 for 12 oz. of bacon is too much.  If others follow suit, that means that pretty soon, there will be no bacon on the shelves, in the same way that there is no longer any Salmon.  

I am going to pray more, mostly because I think it does no harm and quite possibly some good.   

I am resolved to be in the sea more.   It has been two years since I've wet my body.   It's right there.   I can look out our front door and see it.  The sea is full of life, and energy, and when you are in it, you get to have some of it for yourself, like grounding.

(12-28-2023, 03:48 PM)Byrd Wrote: I intend to hang around to wave goodbye to 2024 on January 1, 2025.

I'll join you in that one.

I gave up resolutions twenty years ago, but I'll resolve to worry less and enjoy what is left of my life more.