Your New Year Resolution

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

.................not making resolutions this year, rather, approaching the year with an attitude of resolve.

Love this...I think I will nab that phrase for us too.

I saw this thread and it prompted me to think for the 1st time about NY resolutions.........and I would like to shake off that irrational feeling of fear that always seems to lurk (through all my adult life) in the background. It lurks when things are good (as now) and, obviously, lurks larger when things are bad (during horrendous years such as 2004/5 and 1st part of 2008).

It winds me up and I do try to 'talk' to it and tell it to go away but still it hides and makes me wired and more stressed than I should be. I guess it's because we have always had our own biz so all income comes (or not) from our own efforts. Every day is a blank page.
If anypne has any tips would be appreciated as I think it's something that is a negative in my outlook rather than a driver.

treliac

fc123 wrote: »

Love this...I think I will nab that phrase for us too.

I saw this thread and it prompted me to think for the 1st time about NY resolutions.........and I would like to shake off that irrational feeling of fear that always seems to lurk (through all my adult life) in the background. It lurks when things are good (as now) and, obviously, lurks larger when things are bad (during horrendous years such as 2004/5 and 1st part of 2008).

It winds me up and I do try to 'talk' to it and tell it to go away but still it hides and makes me wired and more stressed than I should be. I guess it's because we have always had our own biz so all income comes (or not) from our own efforts. Every day is a blank page.
If anypne has any tips would be appreciated as I think it's something that is a negative in my outlook rather than a driver.

Are you sure, fc, that the fear you feel is not the adrenaline that spurs you on to achievement?

fc123

treliac wrote: »

Are you sure, fc, that the fear you feel is not the adrenaline that spurs you on to achievement?

Maybe that's what is? Feels like fear though.......swimming gets rid of it for a few hours so I will swim more this 2012 Glass of red does too.;) In fact I feel fantastic after a hard swim (fast 50 langths) @ 6pm then a glass of cotes du rhone when I get home. But that is just masking it I guess. :eek:

I have had a very interesting couple of years whereby I have had more direct working contact with PAYE people than ever before and I was always a bit gel of their 'job security' and regular pay but now I am not as their jobs are just as fragile as mine...more so in some ways as we can react to a situation and choose to take action, but often, gthey can't. Thinking La Senza design employees for example.

OH doesn't worry about such things...he told me to write he wants to lose half a stone of fat and replace it with half a stone of muscle.:)

treliac

fc123 wrote: »

OH doesn't worry about such things...he told me to write he wants to lose half a stone of fat and replace it with half a stone of muscle.:)

:rotfl::rotfl:

It sounds as if you balance each other perfectly. Just carry on doing what you do so well and I'm sure things will be good for you.

If you have a good saleable product then I'm sure that working for self is the ideal.... at least you have more control over your own life.

Masomnia

Drink less

Not an alcoholic, honest! But I have started drinking and getting pretty drunk a lot on my own. Before last year I may have had the odd beer, but nothing like how it got could easily polish off a bottle of wine pretty regularly. So cutting down on the booze.

Oh, and getting a new job!

chucknorris

Masomnia wrote: »

Drink less

Not an alcoholic, honest! But I have started drinking and getting pretty drunk a lot on my own. Before last year I may have had the odd beer, but nothing like how it got could easily polish off a bottle of wine pretty regularly. So cutting down on the booze.

Oh, and getting a new job!

I'm in the same boat, I licked it last year as I eventually cut down to a 20 units a week (sometimes less), mainly because I wanted to run better times. But after an injury stopped my running for 3 months, I slipped back into bad habits.

Although I'm running again now I am struggling to cut down on the wine, but I'm going to try again and starting right now I'm taking the wine off our sainsbury's delivery tomorrow. Hopefully I won't weaken my resolve and nip down to the garage midweek and get a bottle of wine too often.

So I think my New Year resolutions are:

1. Train harder (whilst trying to avoid injury by over training)
2. Cut down on my drinking
3. Spend less time on this forum board

wotsthat

chucknorris wrote: »

So I think my New Year resolutions are:

1. Train harder (whilst trying to avoid injury by over training)
2. Cut down on my drinking
3. Spend less time on this forum board

Mine are the same. Number 3 is going to be the hardest - it's strangely addictive here.

wymondham

I also forgot, I need to learn the Saxophone. I got one two years ago and all I can play is 'killing me softly' ... must try harder!

robmatic

I'm going to get back to running 10kms and learn some Turkish.

kabayiri

I worry about setting myself a resolution which I will never meet, and despair about it.

I need to get back to a learning attitude again. It's difficult justifying spending on training though when you might need that money for a rainy day.