New Year's Resolutions

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<p>I don’t normally make them, but at 51 I’m starting to feel my age and the yen to look for other ways/reasons to get and stay motivated to lose that extra 20, go to bed earlier, bypass the easy snacks, etc… Any other good ideas out there?</p>

<p>Ten (Research-Tested) New Year’s Resolutions, courtesy of the University at Buffalo:</p>

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<p>[Ten</a> (Research-Tested) New Year’s Resolutions - UB NewsCenter](<a href=“http://www.buffalo.edu/news/12128]Ten”>Ten (Research-Tested) New Year's Resolutions - University at Buffalo)</p>

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<p>^Those are all good ideas.
I don’t have any specific goals, but I love the idea of starting fresh. Our kids get to do that (reinvent themselves) when they go away to college, and I wonder if sometimes, adults need to do that too. You get locked into certain patterns of being, and responding. So I look forward to acting as if I am a better version of myself. I heard of this thing called “30 day burn” meaning, if you do a new thing for 30 days (no desserts, more exercise, 7 hours a sleep every night) you’ll be well on your way to making that new pattern a part of your life.</p>

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<p>My resolutions:</p>

<p>Get my sleep schedule more in sync with dh and get more sleep in general.</p>

<p>Get a handle on the office filing system. I made need to do a major rethink, but current system is driving me batty.</p>

<p>Bill my clients in a timely manner and follow up when they don’t pay up.</p>

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<p>I’m doing the cash at the grocery store - definintely! I just started keeping more cash on hand and found that it is harder to part with and my purchasing has definitely changed. </p>

<p>Quit the caffeine habit. Doctor’s orders but I am having a very hard time parting with it.</p>

<p>And of course - the annual, lose weight resolution. What would January be without a diet?</p>

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<p>^I am sooo doing the cash at the grocery store one too! I just downloaded my expenses and it was ridiculous what I spend at grocery stores last year…who eats all this food?! It’s just two of us here most of the time…I eat dinner here, but he’s gone as often as not! My neices and nephews are around a lot though I try to give them mostly healthy snacks.</p>

<p>Caffeine would be a deal-breaker for me…I’d rather lose 20 pounds and exercise more!</p>

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<p>WW on 1/1/11. The doctor prescribed cholesterol meds and I am not picking them up. Off with the weight instead.</p>

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<h1>1 = Go to bed earlier.</h1>

<h1>2 = plan dinners around the vegie, not meat/chicken.</h1>

<h1>3 = don’t let life’s daily crisis take over. Plan time with friends.</h1>

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<p>I resolve not to make a New Year’s resolution … that way, I won’t disappoint myself when I break it. :)</p>

<p>Actually, I’m really going to try and </p>

<p>1) Stop being a backseat (or passenger seat) driver. If I were my husband, I would open the door and kick me to the curb.
2) Eat healthier foods.
3) Work on simple home improvements (painting, landscaping, etc.)</p>

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<p>limabeans, Those are my #1,2,3 too! </p>

<p>I’m not doing too well on #1 though…</p>

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<p>Love more…judge less. Myself included.</p>

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<p>Worry less, trust God more.</p>

<p>Regular date nights with DH.</p>

<p>Major purge of closets, drawers and shelves.</p>

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<p>My New Year’s Resolution is to do one-leg squats in 2011.</p>

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<p>I love this…it may become my new mantra for the new year! Thanks, Novelisto!</p>

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<p>Anyone interested in Diet/Fitness/Weight Loss/Health please come join our thread that is now a year old here in the cafe! We are supportive and welcome ALL levels of fitness.</p>

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<p>I’m really thinking hard about resoutions this year. It’s very difficult to make resolutions that involve changing only MY behavior.</p>

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<p>I know it isn’t really in my control, but my primary New Year’s resolution has been the same for a while: to stay healthy, and stay out of the hospital, for the entire year. If I make it through the year 2011 without being hospitalized, it’ll be the first time I’ve managed that feat since 2003.</p>

<p>Other than that, I’m resolved, as always, to try to be a better, kinder person. To continue to try to be the best parent I can to my son, now that he’s all grown up and so amazingly independent.</p>

<p>To keep my apartment neater. To finish hanging pictures on the walls, now that I’ve lived here for 8 months! </p>

<p>To be more sociable, and try to resist my hermit tendencies. To leave my apartment on weekends on occasion. To maintain old friendships better than I have for a long time now, and to try to cultivate new ones.</p>

<p>I realized recently that it’s been more than a year since I’ve bought any new shoes or clothing. So, to try not to feel guilty about indulging myself, or spending money on myself, once in a while.</p>

<p>To be as forgiving of my own faults as I am of others’.</p>

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<p>My New Year goals are:

  1. To get past my firing and move on into a new job.
  2. To forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again. It’s a gift for myself, not an approval of wrong doing.
  3. To get out of hermit mode, and make some new friends.</p>
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<p>You are welcome, sk8rmom. It is surprisingly difficult to do…or maybe that’s just me.</p>

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<p>To get my house ready to sell. </p>

<p>To figure out how to leave my current job but still make money. Major money.</p>

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<p>Interestedad - You just cracked me up! I thought you wanted to do “one” leg squat. As in - one squat during the entire year - as opposed to 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 squats. Ha!</p>