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[New Year] Resolutions! Welcome to 2012, now go join a gym
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First you did this
Then you did this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLhFDYQHDQY
Now it's time to resolve to do some stuff this year! Maybe easy stuff maybe hard stuff!
Give us your list.
Mine:
- get rid of belly flab
- give at least $100 to charity each month
- unsubscribe from email lists I don't read (looking at you Groupon)
- write more letters cause letters are awesome
Then you did this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLhFDYQHDQYNow it's time to resolve to do some stuff this year! Maybe easy stuff maybe hard stuff!
Give us your list.
Mine:
- get rid of belly flab
- give at least $100 to charity each month
- unsubscribe from email lists I don't read (looking at you Groupon)
- write more letters cause letters are awesome
So It Goes on
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-Read more, average at least a book a month by the end of the year
-Get in better shape, hard to put a concrete number or result on this one as I don't need to lose much weight, just be able to like, run further and longer
-Design a board game
-Have plans firmly locked in place to be teaching in another country or actively be teaching in another country by year end
-Learn to make something tangible with my own hands, right now I am leaning towards a scarf
-Get more letters from SIG
Copy/Paste from the [chat] thread:
1. Work out
2. Graduate
3. Keep people at an emotional distance
4. Don't like jerks
5. Get a job
new ones I just thought of:
6. Work more on my arts (writing/drawing).
7. Be more introspective
1. Pay of credit cards
2. Start martial arts classes
3. Continue to be Awesome
4. Write letters to Inqui pretending to be SiG.
-Make sure my bass guitar does something this year other than just collect dust
MyDcmbr: Yesss martial arts classes are great, make sure to check out all the different schools and dojos in your area and really find the one that is the best fit for you. Don't settle for less as odds are it will just lead to you burning out on it a few months down the road.
I dunno about 3!
I am adding "do some creative writing" to my list
I live near Tampa. The only thing we have more of than martial arts schools is strip clubs.
There are legitimately 5 within 5 miles of my house. All teach different styles.
- Get laid
--> ask that one girl out
- Don't be a buster
- Pass all my classes
- Film a short
- right moar
- Get laid more
- Be less shy and socially awkward
- Be more awesome
-Get solar panels, better insulation and LED lights.
-Do more workouts on the side
-Finish the 10k and 8k race/walks
-Stop freaking out about the future
-Get a job
-Enjoy PAX
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-Pay off Debt
-Move
-Find another place to work
-Learn Spanish
-Take a Dance Class
-Get down to 200 pounds
-Buy some leather pants.
- Take friends' advice finally and start acting more selfish, in time, money, and concern in others.
- Finish building up my 'studio.' Soundboard, mics / stands, keyboard, laptop, two fully functioning PCs, headsets for each mic, and a whiteboard. It's all for below:
---- Setup recording studio for podcast. Or really, having the equipment necessary and understanding how to get it to work the way I want. Assembling individuals for the podcast itself determines where I move to, outside of Texas.
---- Also start working in music making, as a hobby at first. To start getting familiar with the equipment / software, I'm starting with remixing music (more elaborate than bleeps bloops). If I get any good at it, I'll start writing my own music to build a profile, may as well possibly make a career of it.
---- Start getting back into video editing / creation. Admittedly this is mostly to play my hand in making Lets Plays, so again, just a hobby.
Do a 5k in 21 minutes
Do a half marathon in one hour and fifty min
Rock climb more than once a week and do outdoor climbing
Do a full marathon.
Also go out on a date. Its taken 29 years but I really come into my own this year. My lack of success with women is the only continuing sticking point.
The same goes for my family. I haven't spent nearly as much time with them as I should, which I partly blame on my work.
I'm getting the fuck out of retail this year. It needs to happen.
Is that list big enough? I know at least the first two will be easier than the third. This year needs to be a mental health year for me, I think.
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I remember in 2009 I made a resolution to start smoking. That didn't work out. I don't like smoking enough for it.
Right now I'm just happy it's 2012. If nothing else it sounds like an important year. 2011 just sounds so damn miscellaneous (when you've got a Space Odyssey movie on one side of you and a Mayan Prophecy on the other, there's just no way to measure up well), at least, here.
2012.
Sounds like a year for big things.
1. Lose some weight and get ripped. I've already dropped 7 lbs in the last 2 weeks through dieting and jogging alone, but I want to start doing free weights and give my unusually athletic family's genes room to work.
2. Hobbies. I want to do like 3 martial arts, tennis, join a climbing gym, eat food from every ethnic place in town, etc., etc. I'm sure I'll burn out on some of these things but no point not trying them all--got lost time to make up for.
3. Get my credit back on track by reforming my defaulted student loans.
4. Start writing like it's my job. Well, writing IS my job but I'm talking about novels, not copy. 4-6 hours a day 5 days a week. Doing that, I'm confident enough in my talent and rate of growth to say there's no way I'll fail to achieve...
5. Get an agent and get a book or two sold.
That I will join a gym and lift 3x/week.
That I will do at least one of the following: learn Spanish, join a community choir, or take dance lessons/maybe join a contact improv group.
That I will not be lazy at work.
Well here's some doom to make your 2012 outlook a lot darker. Could 2012 be one of the most important and decisive years in modern history?
My goal is to just keep at it on a regular basis so I don't backslide.