What are yours?
Do you make them?
Please share your thoughts.
I don't.
I have an on going list of things, and I do them, usually when i can, or when the motivation is right. The list gets revised as-needed, which is reasonably often. There are shortterm and medium term and long term things on that list.
The thing with resolutions is... if I didn't have the motivation to do something on Dec 15th, I'm not likely to have it on Jan 1st. And there's no Big Bang when you turn the calendar page to Jan. 1st.
For me, I tend to think about things for a while, and one day I get a moment of clarity of sorts, and jump in both feet.
Starting things when I'm half hearted about them or feel like I should, or someone is pushing me to. I know myself well enough to know that I'm not gonna stick with them, and it's a waste of time and energy, not to mention an additional blow to self esteem that quitting can do. Have enough false starts, and one day you can find yourself believing you can't do the race.
In my case, this is true in swimming and life in general.
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My resolution for 2003 was to lose some weight - but no specific goal in mind. I did manage to lose 30 lbs. Swimming is how I did it. I was not a swimmer before that for about 6 years. But now I am hooked.
For 2004, I want to increase my swimming to 500,000 + SCY (I did just over 300,000 SCY in 2003 which I am proud of considering I couldn't do 150 continuous at the beginning of the year.). I also want to lose some additional weight, but figure that if I get the swimming in, the weight will take care of itself.
Oh yeah, I want to become rich too.
My resolution for 2003 was to lose some weight - but no specific goal in mind. I did manage to lose 30 lbs. Swimming is how I did it. I was not a swimmer before that for about 6 years. But now I am hooked.
For 2004, I want to increase my swimming to 500,000 + SCY (I did just over 300,000 SCY in 2003 which I am proud of considering I couldn't do 150 continuous at the beginning of the year.). I also want to lose some additional weight, but figure that if I get the swimming in, the weight will take care of itself.
Oh yeah, I want to become rich too.