Your New Year's Resolution(s)

New one: Learn to play guitar, so my long hair and hippie shades don't look out of place.

• Become (metaphorically) even more attached to my best friend
• Pass exams
• Spend more time on education
• Be happy again ^.^
• FIND A NEW TV SERIES TO WATCH

edited 31st Dec '11 5:30:07 PM by ToolsOfDestruction

• Have more of a social life. There are 10 year olds with more of a social life than me. It's sad.
• Finally finish up this drivers ed stuff and get a car.
• Have a job(on my way there).

I'm thinking I'm going to add "Regularly going to the gym" on my list.

...seriously, I have no excuse, my Uni has a giant gym that I can use for free.

• Make the internet a better place.
• Produce my webcomic more regularly.

• keep on truckin'

• Become a Cracked's Witness.
• Do what I'm s'posed to when I'm s'posed to.
• Get my freaking bookshelves organized.
• Get my game back on track.

This could have been my last introspective, overly long post of 2011, but I forgot to make it, so now it's just my first of 2012, which is rather less encouraging. So I'll try not to make it too long.

I've decided I'm going to actually make some serious resolutions this year, and stick to them. In the past I've tended to set myself vague goals or ones that are beyond my abilities, so, not doing that.

What I am going to do is continue to learn, to read and write daily, and hopefully master the basics of a programming language by the end of the year (probably Python). I intend to complete at least one substantial piece of work outside of my course.

I also need to work on my attitude. I've recognised some of my faults, I think. I need to get better at accepting criticism, and to seek to understand other people who are pissed off with me or my friends, rather than simply getting indignant at them. I need to stop imitating other people who I don't fully understand. Nor, for that matter, should I attempt to be the same person as past me, or a projected future me, or a subjective perception of me that exists in other people's imagination, or a Platonic ideal me, or some kind of true inner me, all of which are unattainable goals. My past self is not some tosser who I used to be but have grown out of, he doesn't exist. I did some things, and thought some things, and now I do and think different things. Likewise, I can never intrinsically be my identity, and I should stop trying to become it.

I need to work on avoiding existential angst. I know myself too well to think I can banish it completely, but I can also suppress it, and perhaps overcome it, with effort. And, in the vague camp, I intend to help, forgive and always seek to understand others, to work hard, to increase my knowledge, and to love and serve the Lord my God with all my heart, mind and soul.

That reminds me, another one of my resolutions is to just let the drama go.

Learn Capoeira.

It's late, but I think I will add another resolution: to contribute more to Wikipedia.

There are a few logic-related pages I read and thought "hmm, this needs more details", but I did not really do anything about them yet...

Learn more songs.

Learn to improvise over changes without a rhythm section, or anything outlining the changes.

Learn art history.

Get a job.

I only have one this year, since I'm gonna be busy enough: keep up with my daily planner.

Okay, it's not a resolution but things I just would like to do.

Learn the history of Korea, Rome, Europe, and the world.

Floss more.

• Grow my hair back to a decent length (despite what people say, I don't look good with short hair).
• Get a job (actually, this is more my goal for January)
• And, of course, the usual one: Make it to next New Year (as long as I do this one I feel my year wasn't a complete failure).

I have 3.

To read more book's.

To be less opinonated.

To be nicer to those around me.

Oh right, since it's this time of the year again, it's good time as any to necro this thread!

So far the only resolution that I actually followed was learning a martial art (judo). I guess that's better than nothing.

This year, I will be a bit more specific:

• Read more.
  • Finish at least seven books in my reading list.
    • Especially The Bible and The Divine Comedy.
• Exercise more.
  • Wake up every morning and jog.
  • Practice to do up to 50 push-ups
  • Practice to do up to 100 push-ups in 2 minutes.
  • Go to wrestling and judo practices more regularly.
    • Get promoted to yellow belt.
• Lose at least 12 kg.
• Maintain GPA 4.0
  • Never miss the deadlines.
  • Always keep up to date with the schedules.
  • Start study for the test at least a week before.
  • Always get as much help as possible from all the available resources for big projects, especially instructors.

Mine is:

• To get in to my dream college (well that's really out of my control, since I already submitted the application).
• To maintain good grades for my final semester.
• To have a good first semester of college at wherever I go.
• To make even more friends.

Mine is to not hit myself in the head with the electrical plug for a Play Station 3 again...

Mine:

• Doing well in the spring semester and getting a 4.0.
• Getting better at RPing

edited 31st Dec '12 8:25:33 PM by rmctagg09

To be the very best, the best that ever was.

• Continue working on improving confidence
• Try to speak more often, both online and offline.
• Continue learning about the world
• Try my hand at writing
• Continue my mild exercise regiment I started last year
• Try to smile a little more often
• Continue improving Japanese
• Get 20,000 assist kills on my Strange Medi-gun (Halfway there .)
• Memorize how to format posts on TV Tropes. <_>

edited 31st Dec '12 11:56:10 PM by Mihashi

Ok, 2 so far:

1. Be more assertive. I realized yesterday morning that I'm too hesitant and waiting for things to just happen instead of doing something myself. For example, waiting for others to call me to meet me.

2. Start posting in the Media section.

No resolutions. No point in it; I woud forget about it a week after taking it.

Heck, how many of you guys remember about your last year resolutions? :p