My New Years Resolutions!

[Whiskers]

I haven't seen a New Years Resolution thread. If there is, mods please move this to it.

I heard a bit on one of the morning shows where a psychologist reckons the best thing to do is to only make a short list so that you can focus on them and stand a better chance of succeeding, whereas if you make a big list it all becomes too hard and you tend not to achieve any.

I need to tighten up my investing/trading behaviour, so my first New Years Resolution is DO NOT get rushed into a stock trade without doing my usual analysis... no matter how good or bad it looks.

On the personal side my number one resolution will be to eat more healthily. I had a cast iron guts in my younger days, ate anything and could hardly pass the pinch test. Having to really work hard to keep the weight off these days, BUT more importantly I am going to focus on achieving strong mental health into a very old age. I think the chinese have some herbs and things.

 

[Smurf1976]

Mine's nice and simple. I won't state the context otherwise it might identify me to some, but my resolution is to get a certain person's name right next time I say it to a large audience.

Let's just say my track record isn't good. Thankfully he has a sense of humour.

 

[nioka]

My New Year resolution. Not to make any New Year Resolutions.

 

[noirua]

My New Year resolution. Not to make any New Year Resolutions.

That's exactly what I was going to say. All great minds...

 

[Doris]

NYR make you springclean yourself by looking at what you can polish up or throw out. A good time to take stock really.

If you find your cup is half full you can plan to fill it!

Failing to plan is planning to fail. But you MUST wanna doit!

And you've got to be positive.
List what will make you feel better not what you don't want!

PIESS is the go:

Physical... more sleep, more exercise, more vegies
Intellectual... aim before you fire. (buying on impulse is ready, fire, aim)
Emotional... step back and view from afar before reacting.
Social... more intimate time with people you love. Listen more than you speak.
Spiritual... more time to find space between the thoughts for instinct to develop.

 

[chops_a_must]

Drum more after a long hiatus, and to lose a bit of weight. I get the feeling the two are related a bit... I don't want to/ need to lose much, but these niggling injuries over the last few months have been rather annoying.

 

[2020hindsight]

If you find your cup is half full you can plan to fill it!

Failing to plan is planning to fail. But you MUST wanna doit!

And you've got to be positive.
List what will make you feel better not what you don't want!

wow
Doris , I'm inspired lol.

ok - I'll make a "2-Jan resolution"
I'm gonna give up coffee (again)
did it a couple of years ago - for a year. Then took it up again , and probably have 6-8 cups a bludy day at work.

Best way to get around it I reckon is some chinese jasmine tea - just fill a cup and keep refilling it all day - the same half dozen leaves can last a day easy.

test 1 ... I wanna do it
test 2 ... it would make me feel better

test 3 ... I'm positive it will make me feel better !
consider it done

maybe I'll take your idea of only filling the cup half full as well (or should I fill it up - sorry I think I missed that point)

 

[Doris]

wow
Doris , I'm inspired lol.

ok - I'll make a "2-Jan resolution"
I'm gonna give up coffee (again)
did it a couple of years ago - for a year. Then took it up again , and probably have 6-8 cups a bludy day at work.

Best way to get around it I reckon is some chinese jasmine tea - just fill a cup and keep refilling it all day - the same half dozen leaves can last a day easy.

test 1 ... I wanna do it
test 2 ... it would make me feel better

test 3 ... I'm positive it will make me feel better !
consider it done

maybe I'll take your idea of only filling the cup half full as well (or should I fill it up - sorry I think I missed that point)

lol

Half a cup of coffee 6-8 times a day = 3-4 cups.
Recommended max is 3.5... So no worries!
You can have your coffee and drink it too!

Then make a pot of peppermint tea and chill it. Iced tea. It invigorates!

People who see their cup as being half empty CAN be focussing on what they want to fill it and set goals, not just being negative about what they don't have.

People who see their cup as half full can be complacent and not really be grateful for what they have.

So...

Start the day with your cup half full.
Then think about the half empty part.

Hmmm... Sounds a plan!

 

[2020hindsight]

People who see their cup as being half empty CAN be focussing on what they want to fill it and set goals, not just being negative about what they don't have.

People who see their cup as half full can be complacent and not really be grateful for what they have.

ok lol - concerning half full / half empty etc ....

well, Where I work, they just front-and-centre you for using cups twice as big as you needed.

 

[Doris]

ok lol - concerning half full / half empty etc ....

well, Where I work, they just front-and-centre you for using cups twice as big as you needed.

lol...

Sounds like my 6yo grand son... "I only had ONE slice!"

... but it was half the cake!

 

[moXJO]

Drink more beer and eat more junk. Next years resolution might be 'get diabetes'.It will be a hard road but I think I can make it

 

[2020hindsight]

I recall Vonnegut saying (in about the last year of his life) something like - "I'm gonna sue those cigarette companies - they promised me if I smoked 2 packets a day all my life that I'd die before this!"
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Harbor/8642/vonnegut.html

VONNEGUT ON SMOKING CIGARETTES: (and other addictions)
"Let us be perfectly frank. For practically everybody, the end of the world can't come soon enough. [Cigarettes are] a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide."
* * *
"In spite of chain-smoking Pall Malls since I was 14, I think my wind is still good enough for me to go chasing after happiness, something I've never really tried." ...

"I wish one and all long and happy lives, no matter what may become of them afterwards. Use sunscreen! Don’t smoke cigarettes. Cigars, however, are good for you.... Firearms are also good for you.... Gunpowder has zero fat and zero cholesterol. That goes for dumdums, too."

If you've ever read Vonnegut's work, then you know he didn't just smoke cigarettes; he practically ate them. And he remained hooked, or so he said in writings up to his death.

But, as life would have it, Vonnegut died under kind of the same sort of ironic circumstances that often befell many of his fictional characters. You see, it was a brain injury suffered in a fall that finally did him in at the age of 84, not cigarettes.

And so it goes.

I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.

But I'll tell you one thing: I once had a high that not even crack cocaine could match. That was when I got my first driver's license! Look out, world, here comes Kurt Vonnegut.

On June 17, 2004, the Weekly had the privilege of publishing one of Vonnegut's shorter pieces, a column he called, fittingly enough, “Cold Turkey,” which is all about addictions — only those of another, more sinister sort. The kind of addictions that kill lots of people, not just those, as Vonnegut says, with a habit that calls for “a fool on one end and a fire at the other.”
— Kevin Uhrich

Cold Turkey By Kurt Vonnegut
Bush and company are only doing what comes naturally; stealing what they can until we kick our addiction to fossil fuels

And my car back then, a Studebaker, as I recall, was powered, as are almost all means of transportation and other machinery today, and electric power plants and furnaces, by the most abused and addictive and destructive drugs of all: fossil fuels.

When you got here, even when I got here, the industrialized world was already hopelessly hooked on fossil fuels and very soon now there won't be any more of those. Cold turkey.

Can I tell you the truth? I mean this isn't like TV news, is it?

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.

 

[Whiskers]

PIESS is the go:

Physical... more sleep, more exercise, more vegies
Intellectual... aim before you fire. (buying on impulse is ready, fire, aim)
Emotional... step back and view from afar before reacting.
Social... more intimate time with people you love. Listen more than you speak.
Spiritual... more time to find space between the thoughts for instinct to develop.

I like that Doris. Quite intelligent stuff!

Problem though... trying to remember it reminds me of one of my favourite indulgances... pies. Chicks chicken pies to be exact

There is a pie manufacturer in Bundaberg (QLD) called Chicks Pies. They make the very best creamy chicken pies and still have a street corner vendor on Saturday mornings. No chunky bits or strange things in them, just beautiful smooth creamy chicken flavour in fresh hot pastry.

 

[2020hindsight]

I like that Doris. Quite intelligent stuff!

Problem though... trying to remember it reminds me of one of my favourite indulgances... pies. Chicks chicken pies to be exact

There is a pie manufacturer in Bundaberg (QLD) called Chicks Pies. They make the very best creamy chicken pies and still have a street corner vendor on Saturday mornings. No chunky bits or strange things in them, just beautiful smooth creamy chicken flavour in fresh hot pastry.

you've obviously gotta give em up whiskers !!
signed ......
the fun police

 

[Smurf1976]

I recall Vonnegut saying (in about the last year of his life) something like - "I'm gonna sue those cigarette companies - they promised me if I smoked 2 packets a day all my life that I'd die before this!"
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Harbor/8642/vonnegut.html

That bit about fossil fools is so very, very true. Relates to the first one too - a fire at one end and a fool at the other.

And if you try and break the addiction at Christmas then you get, quite literally, a cold turkey. :

Not to worry, one of Smurf's real New Year's resolutions is to get rid of some oil. I was thinking more of the fat type than the crude type though but walking more will get rid of the former and save some of the latter.

And my other resolution I'd better not detail since it's political. This one's got noting to do with energy by the way.

 

[explod]

Gave up the fags years ago, to old for the s.x thingo and cant' give up my evening slog of whiskey.

Will just have to try and stop appearing to ramp up the gold price.

Matter of fact looks like its firming tonight. Back to 842

Darnit, didn't last long

 

[Smurf1976]

Gave up the fags years ago, to old for the s.x thingo and cant' give up my evening slog of whiskey.

But you look so young...

 

[son of baglimit]

not laugh or say "told ya so" to those who didnt take notice of the sky falling in this year.

enjoy the bargains to be had - late this year.

take enjoyment from earning 7% in one of those boring online accounts till it all blows over.

watch the price of leather rise as BULLS become scarse.

watch the price of BEAR skin coats fall due to oversupply.

keep thinking of more corny statements.

 

[Julia]

Physical... more sleep, more exercise, more vegies
Intellectual... aim before you fire. (buying on impulse is ready, fire, aim)
Emotional... step back and view from afar before reacting.
Social... more intimate time with people you love. Listen more than you speak.
Spiritual... more time to find space between the thoughts for instinct to develop.

Thanks, Doris. Really thoughtful ideas there.

 

[2020hindsight]

Intellectual... aim before you fire. (buying on impulse is ready, fire, aim)

funny thing Doris - I never thought of this problem as being an Intellectual matter ... I just thought it was "secret women's business"