NYE OT: Out With the Old

[cowgirl836]

My resolution is to finish reading your resolution list without feeling terrible about myself.

Good luck with the 12 dates thing. Keeping your options open (preferably with DH) was the way to go. If he loves you, he shouldn't mind baby-sitting while you go on a few dates.

I figure then we save on babysitting costs too. Win-win

 

[ScottyP]

Here are my 2020 goals:

Health:
*eat smaller portions for meals
*drink more water - closer to the 8 glasses a day
*Fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays
*exercise 3 days a week (even if it is 5 minutes)
*Ride my bike to work at least 6 times (20 minute ride one way)

Home and Garden:
*Power wash the siding on the house (back of the house really grungy)
*replace the countertops (any recommendations appreciated on that in the Des Moines Area)
*get my garden box planted at a decent time (last year was planted late)

Family:
*Go on a small family vacation (even if just a weekend trip)
*Date night with the wife at least once a month
*keep phones away from the dinner table

Personal:
*10 minutes of meditation/prayer each day
*Read 3 books
*develop a better morning routine

We'll see how well I do

 

[Cyientist]

I'm going to focus on drinking less. It hadn't become a problem as far as relationships, job performance, or immediate health is concerned; but there probably would be long term health concerns if I kept up at my past rate. It also felt like I was probably only a few steps away from it starting to be a problem. This past year my night caps started getting stronger and I definitely wouldn't shy away from overindulging on the weekends.

I'm trying the dry January fad and seeing where it takes me. Hopefully it is a good reset and puts me back into that moderate to light drinking category the rest of the year. It just makes sense since drinking/buying alcohol doesn't get me closer to any of my financial, health, or betterment goals.

 

[cowgirl836]

2020 goals......a giant, ambitious list as always. Last year was a lot about trying to get some semblance of control over life and a lot of transitions. This year I have a lot of things I want to learn about so I think growth is the theme.

Health/Fitness

• Maintain or slight weight gain by EOY
• Do local race if cleared by PT and not feeling lazy trying to get this going
• Graduate PT (should happen this month I hope!) done!
  
• Continue doing workout program + challenges going as planned
• Add small health habits
  • Use standing desk 2.5 hours per week
  • Park further from work...and everywhere else too I suppose
  • Take lunchtime walk when weather permits
  • What else could I add? Get up 10 minutes earlier to do stretches? Meh
• Get to bed on time 60% of work nights. For real for real failing miserably
• Try to do 1 early am workout per week?
• Transfer health clinics. Dr is leaving and since I think they mismanaged my delivery anyway, good time to transfer

Home & Garden

• Get patio lifted
• Level section of landscaping
• Plan & plant section not impacted by potential future patio work
• Plan garden including new stuff like raspberries and maybe strawberries
• Get hooks and similar crap for garage to hang stuff up
• Slowly work through another round of decluttering everything. Holidays at home with pack rat parents has me itching to recycle and donate

Professional:

• Keep pushing for projects that are engaging and valuable
• Take courses on 3 subjects
• Keep using list to track daily projects and dedicate weekly time to clearing inbox
• Push for projects for team/recognition of their growth and contributions
• Lean into working with colleague who could use the help and gives you better access to exciting work that stretches your skills doing this
• Keep pushing on policy and cultural change doing this

Financial:

• Max accounts again, potentially up % contribution?
• Meet with a legit advisor to see if we should be doing anything else at this point

Personal:

• Read 12 books 1.5 done
• Go on 12 dates, preferably with DH 1 done, 1 planned for this weekend
• 6 fun family things with toddler do 5 sick days count? Including one episode of crying about mom wanting him to ride in his new sled??? Maybe swimming and brunch with daycare friends can count instead
• Have 10 events with friends
  • Related, take food and provide real help to friends having two babies at once time 1 down!
• Finish cross stitch for toddler continuing to make progress
• Use your fancy planner dammit purchased and used, very good choice helping with lots of little things at work that used to live on 100 sticky notes
• Look at new hobby like crochet?
• Vacation? Iffy on this
• Visit two new state parks
• Go to two new restaurants
• Try 12 new recipes (one down already!)
• Probably something else too but already a long list

One month in, everyone should update progress!

 

[BCClone]

Haven’t drank any pop. So I guess I failed.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

The only goal I had was the continue to lose weight. Weighed myself Tuesday and my weight was the same as the week before. Considering the amount of beer and food I had over Superbowl weekend I count that as a win.
Next I have to get back on the Bowflex.