Happy New Year Everyone! Today is the day we think about how we will improve our lives. Will it be through diet, exercise, finances, a major goal, or something simple? If you’ve made a resolution, tell us what it is? If you hate resolutions, tell is why!
Either way, Happy New Year everyone!
Wheat & Tares 
As a teen I highly resented the push in YW to set goals for the following year (which are similar to resolutions). I refused to do so. I guess it pushed me too much in addition to all the areas the church attempted to control me. In other words, stop telling me what to do! I guess the mind set settled in at that point, because I’ve never really been into setting resolutions. Additionally, most people aren’t successful with resolutions and I am adverse to failure (like all of us, I have my issues) so while I see the value in setting goals/changes, this isn’t a vehicle that works for me.
I’m going to try to listen better this year. Also a few goals about exercise, time management, and books to read.
Happy 2024!
First on my list, as I’m just setting up my journal and my resolutions, is use what you have. I have so much abundance that things I think I want or need are often simply stored away. All I need to do is look.
I don’t like resolutions. First of all it’s the idea that I don’t have goals I am working on already at the first of the year. Of course I have goals all year long I am working on. The first day of the New Year is a false structure that I do not need. I always have something I am working on and nobody needs to tell me it’s time to make new goals. When I complete the goals I have been working on I will know it is time to make new goals
I issue my strongest possible condemnation to so-called New Year’s resolutions. The very idea is contrary to the supposed ideals of the principle.
For the irrefutable fact is that if someone needs to change, that person needs to change right now. Waiting until January 1 simply allows bad habits to have that much longer to become entrenched.
It could not be any more clear that the real pushers of New Year’s resolutions are the pushers of alcohol, tobacco, and high-fat ice cream. They fool gullible consumers into believing that they can continue using these products all year and wait until January to change.
Let us abandon this January nonsense. Make the change whenever change is needed.
I like New Years better than Christmas. Not so much as thanksgiving – a day for gratitude and pie. new years is a chance to start fresh and I think any tradition that involves staying up too late, eating rich food and bubbly wine and then waking up to the new year with a resolve to be better is something I endorse wholeheartedly.
This year at work I have a bunch of business goals of course but I want to be a better catalyst. To help make connections between people and ideas to enable a faster and lower energy reaction.
In my personal life I try to make a fun New Year’s resolution like go hiking more or make pie once a week. This year I haven’t decided but I think it might be to go on 4 train trips. I live in the Midwest near an Amtrak stop and keep meaning to take the train to Chicago or Kansas City or all the way to New York. If we go out west the rest of the family may fly, but I think I will take the train
Daily exercise routine, finish three chapters of my book, good sleep, and fine tune stock investment strategies for better profit. Lastly be a more loving and patient husband and father.
I forgot to make my resolutions this year. Now it’s too late — I’m going to have to wait for 2025 to come around.
To JCS, who urges us to violate our sacred tradition of waiting until New Year’s, I say get thee behind me thou scorner of Dua Lipa.