Resolutions

[houseelf]

Who's got them? Let's hear them!

Mine:

Continue with two minutes of meditation/prayer every day
Work out for at LEAST 30 minutes 3x a week. (I've been doing at least this for 25 years, so unless something happens, should be manageable).
Do at least twenty minutes of stretching/strength training after 30 minute cards (This is where I cheat!)
*Big one* I want to halve the remainder of our student loan debt. I've got a plan to do this and it should be doable if we hammer it.
Coach Girls on the Run/spend one hour a week with daughter running or hanging out
Read to Littlest one at least five times a week

[alotofyarn]

Get back down to pre-baby weight and get healthier - preferably 5-10lbs under. BFing should help, and it has, although all the meals our church brought us after we had her included an insane amount of dessert, which didn't help. I need to get out and walk with her too, but her fussiness for the first several weeks and the weather have made that not so easy, and now I'm going back to work in a week.

Declutter, which includes unpacking those 3 boxes that are hiding in the guest bedroom.

Enjoy time with our baby girl!

[corn poffi]

Mine are always really general so I can't fail:

-Commit to doing yoga or barre one day a week. Since I've joined my new gym, I been mainly doing kickboxing and strength training. I really miss the mind/body connection I used to feel when I did yoga/barre more frequently.
-Start cooking more at home. We spend sooooooo much money on food, that it's really ridiculous. The BF and I came up with a plan to make more home-cooked meals earlier this month, and I want to keep that momentum going! (Especially since he's actually cooperating!!!).
-Less complaining; more doing. I need to stop dwelling on what needs to be done and just do it!

[GreyhoundsRUs]

I have things I would like to accomplish, but my main goal is to be happier and complain less...we'll see!


Wife of a PGY-4 Orthopod

[PrincessFiona]

In a quest to lose weight/get healthier, I've decided to change one behavior each week that currently contributes to my being overweight. In general, I will be giving up any and all fast food for the entire year. Then the first week, I will add walking 10 minutes daily. The next week, I will add 10 more minutes .... etc. When I get to walking 60 minutes/day, I will add a new exercise or dietary change. Instead of seeing this as one big sweeping change, I see this as incremental changes. This year, I will change how I eat and live. period.

I am going to work hard on saving money. This is something that I started recently (thread in financial forum) but that I find is too little. I am going back to a cash only system of shopping. This will remove the temptation to spend when I'm out. DH is on board with this, so we'll see how it pans out.

I would like to start doing crafts/playing games with the little ones. I used to do Friday Family Fun night when my older kids were little, but I fell out of this when I got sick. I never got back into it. I watch the years slipping by and want to do it again before they are too old to enjoy it.

I have been working on coming up with a household management plan so that I can keep the house in order better. It sounds crazy to need a plan, but I need one. I'd like to keep things looking a little bit less like a college dorm room and more like a home.

I stink at meal planning and often feel stressed out/overwhelmed about what to cook. I bought a binder for meals and I plan on coming up with a listing of 2 weeks worth of standard dishes that I'm comfortable with and are easy to make. I have promised myself I will only experiment again once I have myself in a comfortable zone. I want to stop stressing about meal planning.

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Finish things with the house: painting inside, livingroom curtains, put together planting beds, painting outside trim (outside help), have new door installed. Put up pictures in house.

Have O pick out and try a new fruit and/or veg a week.

Work on baby steps to make myself happier and healthier.

[SoonerTexan]

Run the Dallas half next Dec. If we match here.

I also have lots of house goals if we match here.

Pay off the minivan. If we match here.

[spotty_dog]

I got a Fitbit for Christmas, and I started right out with the preset goal of 10,000 steps and 30 "very active minutes" daily. I'm really happy so far. It's required some lifestyle changes, but nothing unachievable, and I really feel like I can keep this up. Definitely looking forward to a healthier 2014.

Emotionally healthier too. I'm going to make time for hobbies again, and work on codependency issues (which have been whirling in my head since Ladybug mentioned this recently).

For me, emotional health includes finding a balance between spending and saving. It's pretty ridiculous to see the five-figure growth in our *non*-retirement account, and yet still have myself convinced that I can't afford new shoes. But I remain worried about letting open the floodgates, so this will be one small change at a time.

[Ladybug]

I've been drinking the yoga kool aid. I'm taking it up a notch this year. Regular classes and maybe some private lessons to really focus on alignment and posture. Yoga has made me feel amazing, and I can't believe how much my upper body and core strength has improved.

I'm going to pay off debts. See last 10 new years resolutions.

I need something big and personal. I've been buried in babies and a fledgling medical career for so long. Every bit of my life feels like it's taking care of other people and their needs. I need to regain a connection with myself, and I want to express that in a completely individual way. A blog, a photography business, something that is competely mine. I hope to launch something this summer duriing the break.

Go to the beach. One with a lot of shells. It's been way to long. This family needs it.

[Thirteen]

I've been drinking the yoga kool aid. I'm taking it up a notch this year. Regular classes and maybe some private lessons to really focus on alignment and posture. Yoga has made me feel amazing, and I can't believe how much my upper body and core strength has improved.

I'm going to pay off debts. See last 10 new years resolutions.

I need something big and personal. I've been buried in babies and a fledgling medical career for so long. Every bit of my life feels like it's taking care of other people and their needs. I need to regain a connection with myself, and I want to express that in a completely individual way. A blog, a photography business, something that is competely mine. I hope to launch something this summer duriing the break.

Go to the beach. One with a lot of shells. It's been way to long. This family needs it.

With shells? Sanibel island (sp?) is apparently where a lot of people go to find them.


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[LadyFoot]

I've been trying to go pretty specific goals for my resolutions the past few years. This year my goal is to only charge my phone at night. I use my iPhone waaaay to much, so with the exception of things like travel days when I'll need it more often than usual, I want to reduce my usage to the point where I don't need to charge it again mid-afternoon!

[ladymoreta]

I've got to lose weight this year. It's gotten bad - I'm back up to my highest weight I was back when I was traveling for work all the time.

My other goals are financial. I will have another credit card paid off by the end of this month, and we'll start working on a high interest loan, which should be paid off by the end of June. After that one, the rest are at least 5% lower, so we'll be making a lot more progress on how much we pay off each month (rolling the paid off payment amounts into our monthly debt repayment.) Wish us luck there - DH is getting antsy about wanting to spend on some big-ticket items, and I need to convince him to at least wait until that loan is paid off.

[MsSassyBaskets]

I've never done serious resolutions, but I'm tempted to do some this year. I know to make it work for myself I need to set concrete, measurable, achievable goals. I'm still brainstorming but here's what I'm thinking of:

- A weekly writing goal, something easy like 2,000 words of project-related writing, that is to say not related to work or school, and not just journaling.
- Mindfulness. Not sure even where to start on this one, particularly how to be accountable.
- Use of time. This has a bit to do with codependency and also TV watching, because so often if DH and I are both at home we gravitate toward each other and the couch, and we "waste" a lot of time just hanging out with each other. I know in a lot of ways it's great that we can and do spend time together, but it is becoming a lazy habit and I often feel I should be using my downtime to work on one of my personal projects or goals, and I don't want to build up any resentment that spending time with DH is getting in the way of that. So maybe this means setting some kind of goal that I spend X amount of time each evening working on a personal project before we get lazy and snuggle in front of the TV.
- More regular sleep. Going to bed a little earlier and at a more regular time, and waking up a little earlier to feel put together for my workday.

[houseelf]

Ok, all, do we want to check in with each other periodically? Keep a foot-up-the...I mean reminder of where we plan to go with our lives?

[Cinderella]

Last year I focused on forgiveness. The year prior kindness. And in years prior creativity, ect.

This year I want to focus on Grace. It keeps coming up for me. That means learning about it, thinking about it, practicing it, giving it, all aspects of it. Let it be a year of grace. In years past I've learned there is no real way to measure the progress for the intangible. I just keep it in mind, meditate on it, spend some time focusing on it, and working with it. Last year was a real surprise how the intangible gifts helped and changed my life. I wonder what will come up this coming year with Grace.