I find resolutions interesting. As I commented on Noelle’s post (linked below),
I like ones that are “commitments to try”, so to speak. You know they’re goals and things you’d like to do, but they’re not “have-tos”.
Setting unattainable resolutions can lead to trouble or so it seems – we gain only negative emotions when we revert to old habits after promising to keep to a path for a year.
I remind myself that these are goals, to be practiced and worked on during the year but not mandatory.
With that in mind, some ones for this year are:
- Do well in my Masters coursework etc.
– Ask for help if I need it and monitor myself so that the changes of this year don’t cause my grades to drop. - To listen twice as much as I speak;
– I’ll be addressing this in more depth later, but as I’m a talker and social person who also is a “Feeler” (high F in Myers-Briggs, for example), I worry about my ratio of talking to listening. So I’m working on it. - Alongside the above is my want to actively practice my Feeling
– Again, I’ll explain in another post, but cultivating my empathetic presence is important to me. These first two are very connected. - To get back into blogging
– I fell off a regular blogging schedule a bit over the second half of 2016, but I’d like to be more consistent. - To get back into writing my story.
– I’ve done quite a lot of backstory-work but haven’t actually done any story-writing for a while. I need to get back into that. - To be more active and finding more walking spaces.
– I’m not naturally a person who gets active, as I’m not sporty. But I like nature and I like walking and I know I ought to be sitting less. I’m not interested in overdoing it though, as I’m skinny enough as it is.
Idea taken from the post linked below:
What are your thoughts on setting New Years Resolutions? Have you completed yours in the past or are you one of those who forgets what they are? Come read about the good and the bad of setting reso…
myzania 
I have a running document where I set myself twenty goals for the year. I don’t expect to do them all, but there’s always a variety of things to get done 🙂 I have a system where completing one gets me a book or something, five gets me a trip to my favourite cafe, ten gets me a pamper (hairdressers or whatever), fifteen gets me a trip to another city or something and twenty gets something ridiculous and unattainable that would still be pretty cool 🙂
I did ten last year!
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Cool. I like that system.
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