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New Year's Resolution

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to be able to do this

Also gl for the everyone and their resolution especially the people trying to quit fapping because that is impossible imo
 
I've been working out since September and I've had some good results, but I want to start working on my arms a lot more. I gotta cut out a lot of the sugar and fat and shit too, but that'll be easier because I've already got a routine worked out so I just have to keep working and up my weight, etc. I should probably do more cardio workouts too, but I'm mostly just interested in bigger arms.

I also want to do better in school. My GPA is good (above 3.5) but my portfolio could be a lot better. I need to stop procrastinating and being lazy and getting distracted. This semester I had a lot eating into me; a breakup, hurricane Sandy, and the convoluted bullshit commute that followed. I had a lot of trouble and could've done a lot better. I think I can get through this year if I keep working hard, get inspired, and stop pissing away my time.

I also didn't treat some people the way that I should have. I should have been more patient and understanding and mature. I also act like a little bitch way too often and pussy out of a lot of shit that I shouldn't. I need to grow up and I hope that this year I can grow a pair and speak up and do what I need to do to move forward. I realize that's a really vague statement to make but I hope whoever takes the time to read this will understand.

Hope everyone else has a great New Year.
 
oh yah i forgot the other thing, i gotta go survive in the wilderness for a month (wilderness being the mountains behind my house) with no food going in. gonna do it, though probably in the easier months like april or may when the bears are just waking up from their hibernation and are too tired to catch me. though there's always the wolves to watch out for. idaho is a rough place.
 
I WONDER WHERE YOU'LL BE BRINGING IN THE NEW YEAR
AS MIDNIGHT CLOCKS ARE SINGING, GOOD CHANCE I'LL BE SLOBBERING SOMEWHERE
I'LL PROBABLY PASS OUT, WASTED, AND SLEEP IN 'TIL THE SMOKE CLEARS
VAGUE MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT FLASH IN TUNE TO MORNING SUNLIGHT
I'LL WAKE UP KNOWING YOU'LL NEVER BE THERE

I'VE GOT ONE HUNDRED RESOLUTIONS
BUT I'VE GOT NO SOLUTIONS
AND I'VE GOT ONE SONG I WRITE A HUNDRED TIMES
AND ONLY A DOZEN OR SO RHYMES

THIS YEAR I'LL TRY NOT TO DRINK SO MUCH
THIS YEAR I'LL TRY TO STAND UP STRAIGHT
THIS YEAR, LET'S LIVE LIKE WE'VE NEVER LIVED BEFORE
THIS IS OUR YEAR FOR SURE
 
mine is to simply give up my search for "love" because i don't think i'm gonna find anything for a while!! i'm just gonna try and have fun and break hearts from now on. maybe i'll be happier.
 
Lavos Spawn said:
oh yah i forgot the other thing, i gotta go survive in the wilderness for a month (wilderness being the mountains behind my house) with no food going in. gonna do it, though probably in the easier months like april or may when the bears are just waking up from their hibernation and are too tired to catch me. though there's always the wolves to watch out for. idaho is a rough place.
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are you a spartan?
 
Would like to start running more. Right now I'm running about 2 miles every other day but I'd like to gradually push that up until I can do 5 mile runs .

Also would like to start reading more books just for my own enjoyment. Have been trying to reread the Harry Potter series this winter break but I can't put my mind to it and am constantly being distracted by my phone and such.
 
2012 was one of the worst year's of my life but 2013 is going to be a doozy.

The biggest goal is to finish and publish Valkyrie.
I'm also going to be doing some viral marketing for another project soon.
I'm writing a trilogy of novels (the easiest way to get published). When I finish that, I'm going to be working on a movie script.
I'm trying to win a government grant for a video game art project.
Last but not least I still need to lose more weight.
 
Anyone wanting to get in better shape should join me and others in #lifting on IRC.

I don't really have a resolution per se, but I do hope to do well in college (3.5+ GPA) and manage to have a social life at the same time. AND get enough sleep, time to do the impossible.
 
cookie said:
$5 says you won't actually post them
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you, sir, must now send me $5. it will probably coast more to send it to me, but i'll be eagerly awaiting its arrival. sign it and maybe i'll hang it or keep it as a memorabilia or something.

anyways, yes, new years resolutions. i warn you it may get just a tad bit too soft/mushy for your taste, but read on dear reader. who am i to stop you after all?

A distance longing fulfilled:
to begin with, i resolve to finally, FINALLY get that car that has been haunting me for all these years by this time next year. I have been good at saving money, but i could be so much better at it. With this car things will never be the same again, no seriously. its hard to explain how obtaining this car will change things, but trust me, NOTHING will be the same ever again.


Boyz II Men: A child growing up
Alright in order to avoid an extremely long paragraph that would dive into my personality and reveal more about me than i would like to reveal at this moment, i'll just summarize things. Lets just say that i am someone who chooses to play around too much when it comes to love/women despite my beliefs on the subject.

I'm not sure where to begin, but this seems like a good place; I am someone that believes that as human beings, one of the greatest things one can experience in life is love. To truly love someone and have love in return, to have complete love, i think its one of the very few magics in life. each and everyone should experience love at least once in their life. My best friend is someone that is opposite of me in many ways, and one of those is that he never wants to fall in love. He is a "playboy" if you will, he just wants to have fun. It breaks my heart to hear him say such things, but what bothers me even more is that over the time we've been best buds, and i mean, like, greatest bromace ever by the way. anyways, over that period of time he has begun to influence me in the one way i told myself i wouldn't allow him to. alright now i am just getting a bit too far ahead.

There is a video that i came across in November. a few things you should know before watching this video.
1: i am a billy Joel fan, so yeah
2: what touched me was the video itself, not necessarily the song. i already loved the song before seeing this particular video.

Anyways, as i said above, i am someone that just plays around too much. in fact all i do is just play around. When i saw this video (don't worry i'll link to it soon) it really got to me and started me on this path of self reflection that has really led to some self questioning and eventually to this new year resolution. The video is a slide of pictures of women, and in accompaniment with such a song as the one in the video, i just started thinking about my history with love and relationships. i started to see faces of women that i potentially could have experienced something special with. I pretty much started to see what it is i gave up on when i decided to take the path that i am currently on. what could have been? what did i miss out on? hell, in the last what? 8 years? if you were to ask me to give you a name of a woman i can say i have truly loved and it cant be someone in my family, the best answer i could give you would be "Mariah Carey". That is such a shitty and poor answer that i almost cant even handle it. The worst part is that i am someone that believes so much in love, and yet i try my best NOT to seek it. Ok before i go any further here is the video. its only like 3 minutes so i hope you watch it before you come back to finish reading this.

so yes, i just am disgusted with myself sometimes. There are those nights (uncommon by the way) where i just lay in bed and wish that i had someone special to call my own. oh those lonely nights, but after that i just go back to just wanting to have fun. its almost as if those evenings come and go in the blink of an eye. i close my eyes with a heavy heart, open them again only to see my best friend in front of me and we are both just going out looking to have a good time, nothing more. None of us want anything serious and we both know it. Maybe despite being so opposite, that's why we get along so well and are almost inseparable. Just last week we were talking about moving out to California together in a couple of years or something, but sometimes i wonder exactly what he will turn me into x amount of years from now. Actually sometimes i think he wants something serious with a girl instead of his usual "play her, fuck her then dump her" routine (WHICH I GREATLY DISAPPROVE OF BY THE WAY AND HAVE TOLD HIM EACH AND EVERY TIME THIS HAPPENS). i swear i can see it in his eyes sometimes that he does want something, well, more. I think maybe over the years i too have begun to influence him, but what does that say? i am turning him into me and he is turning me into him when it comes to women and love? that's just as bad because in the end i am becoming something i never was and do not wish to be.

I think another thing that bothers me is the face i put up with my internet friends, or rather, my out of state friends. I am just not the person some of the people i've met may picture me to be. i mean, dont get me wrong, outside of this area (women/love) i am exactly the person i present myself to be. i am nice, kind hearted, patient, etc. God, now it just sounds like i am bragging. anyways, yeah, i am who i present myself to be except for that one area.

Ok i have gone on too long. Taking all of the above into consideration, i resolve that by this time next year i will be in a relationship with someone, and hopefully she will turn into someone very special for me. i would love to be somewhere on new years eve of 2013 celebrating and ringing in 2014 with her in my arms and me just reflecting back on this moment and realizing that i managed to achieve this one thing. Then i'll probably kiss her in that moment and she wont even know why. But tonight i am single and will go out and enjoy new years eve as a single guy living my pathetic, miserable, awesome, actually its pretty awesome lol i cant complain life. So here is to this year that has come and gone smogon. And here is to 2013 and to new years resolutions, friends, family and to love. If you already have a special someone then make sure to kiss him or her ok :).
 
OK, so resolution is to live a healthier lifestyle. I fail every year, but if nothing else I realize more and more that it will be a permanent change for me once I do it and stick to it. Just need to stop being lazy/procrastinate and start exercising. Changing my diet is a must as well(too much pizza -.-). Other things I want to do are to finish what I started as far as getting my teeth fixed and either start a business(I have some ideas), go back to school, or get a better(higher paying) job. If I find I can handle a combination of those, then even better.
 
i want to meet more people, be more social and proactive for my future by joining clubs at school (also maybe/probably a fraternity), being more open to people i don't know, and putting myself out there even if it's not the easiest thing for me to do.

find out what i want to major in and actually dedicate time and effort to this field because i like it, as i have not expended more effort than necessary on learning and exploration since like second grade.

also, keep working out, get in better aerobic shape, beat some mexican's time in the mile.
 
i decided to make a real post, because i'm bored and it's cathartic and i posted in the other thread and thinking about all the things i screwed up and didn't do in 2012 gave me energy to at least fantasize about things i would do in 2013

when you're caught up in a work mentality, regardless if it's mentally of your own devising, it feels hard to differentiate things that might help you personally vs. things that you just need to do anyway. because the shit you need to do becomes your life. nevertheless, i want to try, because i'm dumb and mix the two up so often.

in terms of work, school, and planning for the future i resolve to:

  • raise my flagging grades and keep them up
  • try to have better relationships with my teachers, because i need 2014 recommendations from them.
  • stop fucking around in my volunteer organization before i actually get kicked out, if i'm not already
  • do right by the school organizations i'm in, and try to ingratiate myself among their members so i get re-elected
  • write all my supplemental and internship essays and do well
  • write work for the scholastic program and do well
  • do more SAT prep
  • get my written work published
in terms of being a fucking human being i resolve to

  • be nicer to my dad
  • do more thoughtful things for my friends, and organize stuff for them
  • get better at playing music and performing it
  • write creatively for myself and not for any fucking program
  • make some art for the first time in a long time
  • look healthy and hygienic instead of being a slob
  • try to have a better attitude about everything
  • try not to worry so much about everything
  • i don't want to say get a girlfriend, but try to be the kind of person that girls are interested in
  • have better experiences in general
  • do more things that i actually want to do instead of being a doormat
  • do me
  • try to have fun
happy new year! i'm actually also eating pistachios right now. insanity.
 
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I don't really set concrete resolutions for myself; I just generally know what I want to work on. With that in mind, and after just reading the posts in the other thread, I really liked this post. I think it's sensible that you identified what went well and what went badly in your year and where you can improve on them. It's great to learn from your mistakes!

I don't know what I want to do with myself this year because I have absolutely no clue where I will be in terms of my health. Get back to school in a meaningful way, preferably -- made almost zero progress in two years due to brain tumours. In terms of something definitely accomplishable, I just want to read more books. I read a lot of books anyway, but I've read much less the last few years due to decreased access to hard copies. I pretty much exclusively read ebooks and it's a little demotivating. I have a huge book queue, even, and I never feel like touching it. I think in that sense I need to be more adventurous; when I have physical access to books, I'm not remotely picky at all, but for some reason when I don't, I am far more selective. What I really want to go back to doing is reading to experience as much as possible, not just to push all my buttons in a calculated way.

I finished a book yesterday (Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi -- loved it) and now I've been inspired to read the author's other books, so I'm going to read The Icarus Girl right after posting. :)
 
Let's see got a lot of these...
1.) better grades- got decent grades first quarter but not exceptional
2.) fap less- if everybody removed chicks from their avatars this would be easier.
3.) get girlfriend- stereotypical, but I have been building up courage and getting closer with one girl and sort of just waiting for when it is a (lot) less awkward/good time.
4.) Run sub 5:15 mile- I can run a 5:45 but I have a year, right?
5.) quit competitive pokemonz- I am gaining nothing yet this will never happen.
6.) finish book I am reading (Winter of the World by Ken Follett) in January. I got it for Christmas and haven't gotten very far yet.
7.) do something illegal and get away with it- I am a veryfucked up kid.
8.) Be more social- I have friends but more is occasionally better.
9.) Do well on biology SAT2
10.) stay awake for 50 hours straight.
 
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