Resolutions, Yea or Nay?
I realize that it's mid-January, but I'm still trying to figure out if I should make some New Year's Resolutions.
Last year I had four:
1. attend the [LDS] temple once a month
2. exercise daily
3. personal scripture study daily
4. moisturize
Of those, I bombed three completely, but I did begin to moisturize consistently. In fact, I've used up quite a few tubes, pots and even pumps of lotion, cream, creme, body butter, salve and other goos. So while I am the quintessential New Year's Loser, I am at least much softer than I would have been otherwise. Was it a complete bust? Is it worth doing again?
I've read resolutions posted by my niece and some friends, and they range from affirming priorities to a complete change of lifestyle. I have friends who just choose one word for each year, and I like that it is concise and easy to remember, but I don't know if it has the concrete measurability I need to make them happen. I am leaning toward lowering the bar this year, in both number and quality, bu if I don't put in something as simple as moisturizing, I may not even have 25% success!
Last year I had four:
1. attend the [LDS] temple once a month
2. exercise daily
3. personal scripture study daily
4. moisturize
Of those, I bombed three completely, but I did begin to moisturize consistently. In fact, I've used up quite a few tubes, pots and even pumps of lotion, cream, creme, body butter, salve and other goos. So while I am the quintessential New Year's Loser, I am at least much softer than I would have been otherwise. Was it a complete bust? Is it worth doing again?
I've read resolutions posted by my niece and some friends, and they range from affirming priorities to a complete change of lifestyle. I have friends who just choose one word for each year, and I like that it is concise and easy to remember, but I don't know if it has the concrete measurability I need to make them happen. I am leaning toward lowering the bar this year, in both number and quality, bu if I don't put in something as simple as moisturizing, I may not even have 25% success!
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Yes, I resolve to drink a lot more this year. Then I'll forget about the resolutions I've made and ALREADY not kept so far in 2010.
MY 2010 RESOLUTIONS:
Exercise (I think I did for one day)
Eat better (that lasted until I finished that bag of chopped cabbage)
Read scriptures (I can't even FIND my scriptures)
Clean my house (I think I'd rather burn down my house)
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I think 1 of 4 goals is pretty good. I have to say that the moisturizing one comes pretty naturally to me, though, because I hate the feeling of dry skin but my messed up thyroid causes dry skin AND I live in Utah.
We set three very low-key, attainable family goals and are making decent progress on them. (They are: each read 1 page or 10 minutes of scriptures each morning, Ike and Mabel invite a couple of friends to church who don't normally attend, and hold a brief family council every Sunday morning.) I have a bunch of ongoing personal goals and am making a tiny tiny tiny bit of progress. I'm still not doing so well the one to not snap at my kids--I found out just how much I need to work on that when I was trying to watch the new "Emma" on PBS and the kids kept talking to me during it.