New Year Resolutions - Return to this thread December 2022

belfastgirl23

So my resolutions for this year were:

One offs
Get downstairs of my house painted ✅ 
Get a longstanding problem in the bathroom fixed ✅ 
Get checked out re menopause ✅ yup it’s happening!
Give blood ✅ only once but will do again
See an elderly relative (they live abroad so takes a bit of planning) ✅ 
Get new glasses ✅ 
Set up my workstation properly ❓ I have tried but still have a fritzy shoulder so not successful I’d say
Get finance advice re my pension ❌ but I did do some research and started paying more in
Take action on some training I’ve been wanting to do ✅ just submitted my first assignment
Make a will ❌ sigh, this is on the list AGAIN for next year
Apply for an increment at work ✅ successfully done and worth it financially!
Go for accreditation at work ❌ I’m ok with this as I started building the portfolio for it at least
Get a proper dental guard for tooth grinding ✅ got it and then melted it ❌ a costly mistake

Health
Track miles with a goal of 2200-2500 miles walked ✅ reckon I will make 2400
Do my exercise classes ❓ yes off and on
Meditate ✅ more on than off but want to get more consistent next year
Track food and maintain my weight 140-150lbs and weigh myself daily ✅ 
Stretching 6/7 days per week (see fritzy shoulder and tooth grinding) ❌ 
Bed between 1030-1115 ✅ pretty consistent on this
Keep up with small health tasks - dentist, eye tests, dealing with dry skin etc ✅ 

Work
Create and hold time and space for focused work - 90 mins pd most days ✅ 
Identify 3 key tasks daily and track small tasks using tally marks ✅ 
Achieve one big goal ✅ 
Prioritise ruthlessly ❓ ❌  tried but I am not good at this, especially the ruthless part

Finances - I managed to pay off our small second mortgage which wasn’t on the list but still giving myself a ✅ for it.

I promised myself to drop the drama which I did do at least some of the time and to be ok with good enough - which I think I was most of the time.

Sorry for the long list but I’m a planner! I think there will be a bunch of this stuff that will be repurposed and reappear in different forms for 2023 as well. Would love to hear how everyone else got on!

jackieblack

belfastgirl23 said:

So my resolutions for this year were:

One offs
Get downstairs of my house painted ✅ 
Get a longstanding problem in the bathroom fixed ✅ 
Get checked out re menopause ✅ yup it’s happening!
Give blood ✅ only once but will do again
See an elderly relative (they live abroad so takes a bit of planning) ✅ 
Get new glasses ✅ 
Set up my workstation properly ❓ I have tried but still have a fritzy shoulder so not successful I’d say
Get finance advice re my pension ❌ but I did do some research and started paying more in
Take action on some training I’ve been wanting to do ✅ just submitted my first assignment
Make a will ❌ sigh, this is on the list AGAIN for next year
Apply for an increment at work ✅ successfully done and worth it financially!
Go for accreditation at work ❌ I’m ok with this as I started building the portfolio for it at least
Get a proper dental guard for tooth grinding ✅ got it and then melted it ❌ a costly mistake

Health
Track miles with a goal of 2200-2500 miles walked ✅ reckon I will make 2400
Do my exercise classes ❓ yes off and on
Meditate ✅ more on than off but want to get more consistent next year
Track food and maintain my weight 140-150lbs and weigh myself daily ✅ 
Stretching 6/7 days per week (see fritzy shoulder and tooth grinding) ❌ 
Bed between 1030-1115 ✅ pretty consistent on this
Keep up with small health tasks - dentist, eye tests, dealing with dry skin etc ✅ 

Work
Create and hold time and space for focused work - 90 mins pd most days ✅ 
Identify 3 key tasks daily and track small tasks using tally marks ✅ 
Achieve one big goal ✅ 
Prioritise ruthlessly ❓ ❌  tried but I am not good at this, especially the ruthless part

Finances - I managed to pay off our small second mortgage which wasn’t on the list but still giving myself a ✅ for it.

I promised myself to drop the drama which I did do at least some of the time and to be ok with good enough - which I think I was most of the time.

Sorry for the long list but I’m a planner! I think there will be a bunch of this stuff that will be repurposed and reappear in different forms for 2023 as well. Would love to hear how everyone else got on!

Well done on all your achievements - that was a huge list but three times as many ✅ than ❌

I did smile at ‘drop the drama’ 😁 - that’s something I’ve been susceptible to in the past and I can see that my daughter has inherited. I just don’t engage with it anymore - life’s too short!  (And frankly, I don’t have the energy). 

Also the ‘good enough’ thing… I’m naturally a perfectionist but, as I’ve got older, have realised that this has caused such much unnecessary stress and that ‘good enough’, generally, is perfectly fine 🙂

I’ve been thinking about my challenges for 2023 and look forward to the new thread 🙂 (would you post a link on this thread once you’ve set it up please? I struggled to find this one last year 😳🤦🏻‍♀️)

belfastgirl23

Good point @jackieblack here is the new thread link - New Year Resolutions 2023 looking forward to seeing what you have planned!

jackieblack

belfastgirl23 said:

Good point @jackieblack here is the new thread link - New Year Resolutions 2023 looking forward to seeing what you have planned!

Thanks! 🥂
(See, I hadn’t spotted it, although you had already set it up when I posted earlier 😳🤦🏻‍♀️)