What New Year's Resolutions have you already blown? For 2018, I had resolved limiting my posts on any forum to subjects about which I had expert knowledge. After realizing that I couldn't post again until 2019, I said to heck with it and resumed posting as usual. I didn't even bother with the usual weight loss / get healthy resolutions...I thought I'd try something that I might actually be able to do. So much for that!
2018 Resolutions already failed?
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resolved to put myself in the shoes of people that annoy me
it isn't working...
it isn't working...
LVSteve
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I was doing OK with that one until today when I came across the brain donor that claimed the average computer mouse records everything you do. Just trying to think down to that level made me dizzy.
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Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes.
That way you'll be a mile away from them..... And you'll have their shoes.
My New Years resolution was not to buy a Ferrari and I can proudly say that I've stuck to my resolution.
So far.
So far.
Was going to eliminate bacon.
Could not think about anything but bacon.
Ate bacon. Failed.
Maybe try a salad instead...
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I was going to quit reading rant threads.
carpriver
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I said I was going to wear pants all day. Didn't make it 12 hours.
The definition of rant is to speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way. Your resolution is safe so far in this thread.
I don't do resolutions.
GB
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I was going to not buy any more guns. Put one on lay a way last week. I didn't make it five days!
Pants are highly over-rated. And uncomfortable.
My resolution was to make no resolutions and it worked! I didn't set myself up for failure.
I certainly understand that this is a fun thread, not a serious one, but wanted to say that New Year's Resolutions have annoyed me from the very first time I'd ever heard of the concept.
I've always felt it was ludicrous to pick THAT day to set/follow some goal. I simply believe that if you conjure up a plan or goal, do it. Do it now. Do it when the time or money makes it feasible. There might be a dozen real-world limiters on when, where or how you execute your plan toward a goal.
But January 1st?
Bah... you're just putting it off. Do it or blow it, whatever, but it's boring to hear this grand declaration that you won't follow. Because if it were important and you were serious about accomplishing it, you wouldn't be waiting around for the day after 8-12 hours of hard drinking to "accomplish this important goal." If it mattered and you were serious, you'd have been all-in weeks or months before.
Related tale, in hopes of making my post something more than just a negative steamy pile:
My buddy Dan called me up on a beautiful Spring day and he said we should go grab a beer, and so we did. I asked him what was new and he said he got a really lousy cholesterol test result and his doctor let him have it. I asked him what was next and he said he needed to change his diet -- and quit eating fast food.
That was like a flashing beacon to me. "I eat way too much and I have been wanting to quit the stuff. If you have to quit, I'm quitting also. Just makes good sense."
I didn't have any Taco Bell or McDonald's or Burger King or Wendy's or Dairy Queen on that day. I almost sure as heck did the day before. Didn't know on that day that it would be the last time I'd eat it. Would it have tasted any different if I had known?
That'll be 14 years ago in April. I probably miss Chicken McNuggets and the Whopper the most. And half the menu from Taco Bell. Can't say that I miss White Castle much, haha.
I've always felt it was ludicrous to pick THAT day to set/follow some goal. I simply believe that if you conjure up a plan or goal, do it. Do it now. Do it when the time or money makes it feasible. There might be a dozen real-world limiters on when, where or how you execute your plan toward a goal.
But January 1st?
Bah... you're just putting it off. Do it or blow it, whatever, but it's boring to hear this grand declaration that you won't follow. Because if it were important and you were serious about accomplishing it, you wouldn't be waiting around for the day after 8-12 hours of hard drinking to "accomplish this important goal." If it mattered and you were serious, you'd have been all-in weeks or months before.
Related tale, in hopes of making my post something more than just a negative steamy pile:
My buddy Dan called me up on a beautiful Spring day and he said we should go grab a beer, and so we did. I asked him what was new and he said he got a really lousy cholesterol test result and his doctor let him have it. I asked him what was next and he said he needed to change his diet -- and quit eating fast food.
That was like a flashing beacon to me. "I eat way too much and I have been wanting to quit the stuff. If you have to quit, I'm quitting also. Just makes good sense."
I didn't have any Taco Bell or McDonald's or Burger King or Wendy's or Dairy Queen on that day. I almost sure as heck did the day before. Didn't know on that day that it would be the last time I'd eat it. Would it have tasted any different if I had known?
That'll be 14 years ago in April. I probably miss Chicken McNuggets and the Whopper the most. And half the menu from Taco Bell. Can't say that I miss White Castle much, haha.
misswired
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No more being a sloppy drunk...the upside, I have been dressing better!
I gave up self-denial. Seems to be working so far . . .
None. I did not make any. Why set yourself up to fail.
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