It wasn't exactly a New Years resolution, just an overall goal to lose weight. I lost 100lbs over 2 years, then last year I gained 20lbs back. :(
But I've lost 10 of those again this year so far. My goal is to get to a healthy weight.
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Thanks for that - and in fact, said endeavours are doing better today than yesterday, (progress was made), so it seems like making a public thread like this motivates me a little.
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Not in a mental state to think about resolutions. So maybe feeling better is a resolution.
Thanks for the train with a nice short story :)
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I did not have a real new year resolution. more like I want to finish up something I started last year, but it is taking ages to organize anything with all the restrictions Once that's done I'll set another goal. If you want to change something just do it regardless of the date. Making a bunch of resolutions is less likely to succeed than making changes one at a time.
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BUMP!
I do not make New Year's resolutions.. whenever I feel that I should start doing something, I start doing it from the current day, or the following day at the latest, and usually, I'm motivated enough not to stop. But I'm feeling fingers crossed for your resolutions Sallachim!
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"A house in order is a mind in order"
I can clearly say that when i sort out stuff and give away i am always more happy and free as lower ammount of stuff are in my flat.
So yes, a "spring cleaning" helps with that goal too.
I never make New Year resolutions. If i want to change something i don't need a date X. I do it.
- I changed the last months that i do 20 daily pushups. Thats not much but i am a very lazy guy in the direction of sport, + a big thing to really do it daily, and with 40y+ i must say my body change in a way i don't like it :o( .... so thats my small part against it.
- I try to sort, a part of, stuff from my past out (in my mind, as owned stuff, as files on my PC -so on all fronts-) because i am someone that are partly with one leg in the past and that isn't healthy because you are never fully open to/for the future.
- I try to cook each second day. I dislike to cook for myself but like to cook for more people, so that is a big "daily" fight since i am solo (+ corona that prevent that much friends/family come around...).
Besides that is this year much more positive as the last one, not because all are changed to perfect/very good, mostly "only" because i changed the way how i react on the bad stuff.
I accept what i can't change, try to let it go if i don't see a real chance to have positive feelings from it or expect a bad mood (that work with a lot of situations -but of course i am not at the point that it work with all).
I am because of that more relaxed, more straight forward to the point i want to reach. As easy example, big problems with a state office, handled with them direct (direct at the day when a letter reached me), then phone called with a government department, confronted the state office with the stuff that gov dep. told me, then contacted a lawyer and presented the case. In the end i said "not worth the months of trouble, to have then MAYBE a success and a bit money more (for a unsure ammount of months)".
So i handled something really bad in 2 days (and i were like a dragon that spit fire... so far from friendly and relaxed) and not, as in the last few years, push it away for weeks and think all the time about it, let it push me down all the time and then solve it without to make a clear cut (against the fight) like this time. So normaly a bad thing for months, got handled this time in 2 days. With much lesser frustration, bad mood, health problems and so on.
Of course is that only one example but one that is very actual and present the change very well.
It shows that i handle it much more healthy as before.
And that is very important for me, because a state office (and the workers there) don't care if my health are bad, if i have pain and problems for weeks or months because of such stuff and i am the only one that can prevent that i get tortured from the situation and how i react on it.
Oh and i kicked all milk products because my body react now too on Laktose/lactose -_-
That reduce my pain, my running to the bathroom and all such stuff extreme to the positive. I can sleep much longer as 1h in one go and that is like heaven because i have much more energy for stuff at the next day :o)
I am far from healthy but i take now no medicine and are on a better level as before with weekly, strong, immunsystem supression injections.
I have changed my life from suicide thoughts and very active depressions 10 years+ ago to the level now with a lot of work on myself and the most worthy advices that i can give are ...
- Small steps are better as none
- Don't set complete unrealistic goals or you demotivate yourself (make shorter/reachable goals and raise it later when you reached the first , smaller, one)
- Don't try to change other ones around you, you can only change how you react on them, the rest don't lay in your hand (at least mostly) [i speak here about reallife stuff, the online stuff is different -and mostly don't important-]
- Take daily a timeframe X without PC, mobile phone, TV, tablet and so on. That you have the chance to see yourself and your life without distraction, that you have the chance to turn the brain off and refresh. If you drink a tea, read a book, sit at the window and look in the air or what people do. It isn't important what you do exactly, as long as it feels good/correct for you (and don't involve your brain in the way that you think about problems, how to solve something, what you do as next and such stuff -it's difficult to close such thoughts complete out....-).
The text got much bigger as i wanted......
I hope it is helpful
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Bump for the most entertaining train I've seen in awhile!
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Here it is. March 21st - the 80th day of this year, and according to astronomy we have officially a Spring since yesterday. Some of you might have started a spring cleaning, some of you will start it soon, and some don't care. But there's a saying I've heard, and it goes something like this: "A house in order is a mind in order".
Unfortunately I can't help you with setting your house in order, but maybe I can help with your mind?
With New Year, many people make resolutions and with nobody to watch over us, we usually start forgetting them very fast, or something more important comes up. And when next December comes suddenly, we start feeling bad over doing nothing we wanted to have done. Why not deal with this problem now?
So... tell me about your New Year's resolutions, how things are going with them, and if you simply forgot about them, conciously gave up on them, or were forced to abandon them. And somewhat similarly to BLAEO (backlog fighting initiative), you might get inspired to try again. One more attempt at almost lost cause? And when the event ends in 7 days, maybe you'll have changed something? Or maybe you're on top of your game, and want to brag how much control over your life you have? Go on and share the news as well!
Oh, and here's some giveaways
You can get busy living, or you can get busy dying. It's always a choice.
Edit: moved my own resolutions to a comment, to not scare you all with a wall of text :P
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