Resolution | Pad Patter 1.17

I don't even remember the last time I did make a resolution for the new year. Not even sure if I ever have!

 

Nope, no resolutions for me.

 

I don’t really have any firm resolutions as such....this year I decided to set quarterly goals instead as I felt that was more achievable for me and kept me on track better.

 

I don't make new year resolutions but I do start new photography and scrapbooking projects and those are still going well!

 

I don't make resolutions but I do pick a word for the year and tie goals to it.

This year's word is hearten.

 

I don't set resolutions as I never stick to them. I have set myself goals to read more, which is going well so far about to start book 4 of the year. I find being in lockdown and working from home I am spending to much time just sat in front of a computer and then the television during the evening. So I have set myself a goal to spend less time off technology, read more, exercise more and start to eat healthy again.

 

I set resolutions as they come up. For example, I resolved to walk 20 minutes a day starting November 1. (Broken almost immediately, of course, but is a nice incentive/reminder when I'm looking for an excuse to skip on a day that there is no reason to not do it.)

I bought a special 2021 planner to help me goal set, but have not printed it out because I have not been using my 2020/2021 planner since November, when the kids' school shut down. It's a different sort of planner, with 3/4 of the pages devoted to goal-setting and accountability, but I dread having to print, punch, and assemble it. I didn't expect that to be a show stopper; maybe deep down I don't want to face the accountability. LOL

All that to say, no, I did not make any resolutions this year.

 

Like @sakura-panda - I like to make resolutions as they come up.

For instance just about 2 weeks ago I started practicing a song on the piano that I'm going to perform for our homeschool group. We are studying Debussy and so I pulled out Clair De Lune (I knew it way back in 1995!). It was a goal to practice it for 20 minutes a day. I've been able to stick to that goal and now I'm falling in love with the piano again and am going to try and keep it up even after I play it for our group...I'm going to pull out some old songs I used to know. I did not intentionally set out to make that a resolution for 2021 but it has turned into one of my goals for 2021.

 

Clair De Lune was a favorite of my mom. I think it was played at her wedding. I attempted to learn it when I took piano lessons but it wasn't my best. Now my piano teacher was awesome at it and she would play it for Mom once in awhile since she was my mom's aunt!

 

I set some goals for the first quarter and so far so good. I find it easiest if I only have one or two new things to focus on adding to my plans - rather than trying to do a bunch of things at once.

 

I don't make any resolutions either, because I never keep them. I always had the usual "going to lost weight", "going to exercise", etc.

I'm just trying (not a resolution) to enjoy life!

 

Only one - to not make any.

 

Oh yeah I did, but if I don't carry through, I don't lose sleep.
so here you go:
Read completely through the Bible
Exercise 4 times a week
Do 2 kind things a month ( deliberately look for something kind to do)
Send out one card a week.

Oh - now I'm tired just thinking about it.