New Year Resolutions: What and why?

[diebitter]

Overall: Change my lifestyle to a much healthier one. IM have 3 young children, a long mortgage left to pay, so I really need to stick around for a long time.

Lose weight: I've got way too heavy. While I am doing some exercise (I walk about an hour a day during weekdays), it's not enough, and I need to do some running/rowing too on top of it (I have a treadmill and rowing machine set up in my garage with DVD\TV to watch - sweet).

Sleep better: I have slightly chaotic sleep cycle at the moment, down to probably too much poker a little too late, so always seem to get less than I need. I'm cutting down to 6-8 tourneys a week, on 2 or 3 nights only, and normal bed-time the other nights. The poor sleep habit also means tired at work, so snacking ensues. Not good.

Better eating habits: No, I don't mean a diet, I mean get back to a no-snacking, 3 meals a day lifestyle. A couple of pieces of fruit on top, to fill out the day.



Play my winning games: I play all sorts, but I'm a general loser at ring games, I do okay (slight winner) at SNGs but don't like them too much, but I'm okay at big tourneys long-term. I'm cutting out ring and SNGs, and sticking only to tourneys from now on.

Less 2+2, more reading books: All my reading these days is 2+2, Film/DVD sites/magazines, and the TV guide. Not good. I need to start reading more. Can't remember the last book I read. I've pulled Stephen King's 'On Writing' and some P.G.Wodehouse Jeeves stories to start over Christmas.

Help my eldest son build a 'battlefield': He plays a dungeons and dragons type game called 'Warhammer', and we're going to make a proper battlefield for it, and interchangeable bits that alter the battlefield for different games (eg moveable trees, houses etc).

just that will suit me nicely.

[Wes Mantooth]

Diebitter, your resolutions seem solid, just some advice; I have seen many people start diets with basic plans like snack less and eat healthier, but many times these diets fail. Set up a more exact diet plan, keep track of what you are eating, number of calories, make daily and weekly plans, make lists of what is and is not alright to eat. Having a more detailed plan typically encourages people to follow the diet closer and increases the chances of success. Good luck.

[Tennenbaum]

1. Quit smoking - I quit last year and it was only some extreme stress in the fall that made me start up again. I am kicking myself. As for why, well smoking sucks. I feel like crap, it's too much $, and it smells bad. Plus you cant smoke anywhere anymore.

2. Motivation and Patience to stick with stuff. I never try new things, or stick w/ them when I try them. I really hate this about myself and I am commited to changing it. If I fail, I fail. At least I know I tried.

3. Being better to myself. I tend to let myself come last. I treat others better than I should sometimes (especially when they prove not worth it) and then I feel really crappy about myself because I let it happen. Along w/ that thinking...being better to myself health wise. I eat like crap and it's not going to be able to continue w/ the current state my digestive track is in.

4. Read more. I love reading. I love going home and wanting to pick up where I left off on a book. I dont know why I dont read more. Going to try and make it a point to read one book a month.

5. Do up my resume and find a new job. I am hoping to move to Austin, but even if I dont I really need to find a new job. I've exhausted my posibilities at this place and it's time to move on.

6. Have more fun w/ my friends. Go out more. It always does wonders for my mood when I surround myself w/ the people that I love and that love me. Why wouldnt I do this more?

That's it for me. These are things that I try to work on all the time but am really making an effort to change (not just in '07 but now as well.)

[dcasper70]

1. Quit smoking for good.
I quit a pack/day habit on NYE '99. Was perfect for a full year, then started an occasional smoke here or there. Got to being a 'social' smoker, buying a pack for the weekend.
I never smoke at home, work, and rarely in my car, just golfing, playing cards, and drinking.
I know I don't need to smoke, cause I can go weeks without. But I seem to keep buying them for random occasions...
Tired of this, and firstborn is coming fast.

2. Exercise more than my daily 30 minute after lunch walk. Even if it's just doing some additional 8-minute abs every morning. Whatever, just something...

3. Spend less work time on 2+2. I browse way too much.

[Moneyline]

#1) Make at least $250,000 this year. Which is another way of saying put in a lot more hours at the poker tables. I want to be able to have enough cash to either get a condo near the strip or make a movie... and not go into debt doing it. That's not financially possible as long as I keep playing 5 hrs/week.

#2) Exercise more. I was doing okay with this until about September when I basically stopped. I was running a couple miles about 5 days a week, but it got a little tough on my knees and I used that as an excuse to not exercise. This year I want to vary my cardiovascular exercise and add some weight training.

[ZenMusician]

1.) Put music back first in my life
2.) Re-furnish apartment
3.) Increase BB/100 by .5 overall
4.) Study Backgammon or similar game

The end of this year has sucked hard-core. I have
lost family members in different ways and am now
living alone for the first time in a very long time.

I need to keep busy, keep my mind sharp and focus
on the things that bring joy into my life instead of
punishing myself for bad situations/choices.

To quote the hooker in Forrest Gump "everyone gets
a second chance..."

-ZEN

[Barcalounger]

1) Stop smoking. Seems to be a pretty common one. I quit 3 years ago, then this year my startup company starting gaining steam and the stress put them back into my mouth. I'm only at about a pack a week, but even that's too much.
2) Have my first kid.
3) Make 5 figures playing poker. Every time I get close I have a lapse in concentration and I don't play for a month or two. That's happened the last 2 years and it's dumb.
4) Watch more films. I love film as an art form, but time constraints have limited my DVD watching this year.
5) Lose weight. I just made a "first one to lose 30 lbs gets $100 from the loser" bet with a few guys starting January 2nd. Maybe that'll light the proverbial fire under my proverbial behind.
6) Have one of my companies actually start making me some money.
7) Learn more about investing. Right now I just pick whatever Vanguard mutual fund sounds fairly good at the moment, I'd like to actually know more about the process. This goes hand in hand with #3 or #6, otherwise I don't really have that much $$ to play with.

[pryor15]

hmmm...

1. make at least 1 film that's better than any of my previous work (pretty much this is always my goal, though, so i don't know if it counts)

2. do a better job of self-promotion

3. make more $$ than i did this year. and, if possible, do that without having to find a job

4. get to a shooting draft on my feature screenplay and somehow find the funding to get it made

5. in general, do more writing.

[george w]

go to south america

[kitaristi0]

1. If not decide to switch over for good, at least try out a polyphasic sleep schedule for a month or more(I made a post about it a few weeks back).

Health stuff

2. Radically cut back on or completely leave out all the caffeine I drink right now.

3. Actually start going to the gym more regularly, rather than just saying that I'm going to go to the gym.

4. Increase the amount of fruit and vegetables in my diet. I guess move more towards a vegetarian diet, though I'm still going to eat meat whenever I feel like it. Just try to be a bit more health conscious about the food I eat.

5. Greatly reduce the amount of money I use buying junk food from vending machines.

Poker & Money

6. Become a winning midstakes (2/4 - 5/10) NL player.

7. Play a lot more hands then I currently do.

8. By the end of the year I want to have at least one project (be it a business, website, affiliate page, or whatever) that generates me more than $1/month in income.

9. Cut back on impulse buying, especially on things like DVDs. Try to consider whether I actually need to buy the thing I'm purchasing or whether I just feel like having it and don't really need it.


This is just a random scribble of things that are likely to be on my actual list, I haven't really thought about it in great depth yet.

I guess one more would be to listen to one new album per week. And to always do my best in school and stop taking my school for granted and actually act like I want to be there and that I deserve to be there.