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New Years Resolutions?

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous Conjectures' started by Eebit, Dec 31, 2015.

  1. In the spirit of the New Year that is just around the corner now, I wanted to know... do you guys have any resolutions for 2016? Maybe a personal goal you're striving to meet, maybe something you've been dying to try? Post about it and discuss in here!
     
    #1 Eebit, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:04 AM
  2. I think I'm gonna take 2016 to try and live for myself rather than others. I've been meaning to do that for years, but maybe this will finally be the time to do that.
     
    #2 Gist, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:13 AM
  3. Write more music.

    SECRET GOAL (?????????????)
     
    #3 Kamantha, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:56 PM
  4. I'm going vegetarian once we hit midnight on this end. I would've already, but figured transitioning over the course of December and dwindling away from meat with a few final, glorious hurrahs would be easier on me from a mentality standpoint. I'd mentioned this once or twice already in the boards, but basically, I'm doing it for reasons to do with health and personal morals. 

    Bought myself a new scale, a yoga mat, some dumbbells, and a pedometer, set to drop the poundage and actually be set to a wise weight. Yes, I'm pursuing the "traditional" goal of weight loss in 2016, but by god if I don't make it when I feel this much spirit for the idea out of the gate. Maybe I'll even make a topic for it in Real Talk that I'll spontaneously update or something.

    The general goal for next year, otherwise, is to make as many advances in my career as possible, and, as an aside, to post here on ZEJ more often than just as a recurring face that takes off for several months before returning for brief stints. I think this month has been more telling about the general idea of what I'd like my presence to be here; more sustained and substantial, but not too overbearing. 

    Other than that, to continue the pursuit of knowledge more openly. Read more books, explore more new places, make 2016 a heck of a year.
     
    #4 Jonno, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:40 PM
  5. I'd like to expand my playwriting portfolio! Although directing has certainly captured my interest way more than I thought it would have, so I might try to see if I can something in that vein. Perhaps both? Who knows. :p
     
    #5 Silver, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:45 PM
  6. I forgot to add that I'm also looking to actually make some big progress on at least one of the twenty books that I've been planning for the past three years since Babuta's Kingdom but haven't really gotten to, and my endeavor to keep more on social media pursuits towards promotion, which includes actually getting to use ZEJ Live Tweets in conjunction with the good ol' battle-plan after putting it off so long.
     
    #6 Jonno, Jan 1, 2016 at 5:41 PM
  7. In the way of resolutions, I don't usually make any that I actually stick to over the span of a year. Generally I forget about whatever it was that I drunkenly? was musing on around the time of the turnover to the new year.

    However, I do want to endeavour to make a couple resolutions to stick to this year. Hopefully me posting in this thread gives me some sort of weird incentive to actually hold myself accountable? Or something.

    If nothing else, posting here might generate discussion :^)

    First of all, I want to make sure I take a chunk of time out of my day (more specifically, I've set a target of 1-2 hours) each day to do something that doesn't involve interfacing with an electronic. Over the past year, I've spent a boatload of time just doing mindless things on my laptop without any purpose. Site-hopping between the same 5-6 sites even when I know that nothing new or interesting has sprung up within the last 5 minutes. Watching streams of things that I don't really care all that much about. The idle mind-numbing activity of casual surfing is getting kind of unhealthy for me. I feel like if I dedicate a chunk of time that I'd otherwise be just browsing, there will be a number of other things that I can accomplish instead. Maybe get better at cooking? Go back to reading for fun instead of just cramming books at the last moment for school? actually read my school textbooks??????

    On that note, I also want to start re-adjusting my sleep schedule to go to sleep at a firm(er) 2am. My friends/housemates give me a lot of flack for how I go to bed at like 5am (!!!) each night, and although I love talking in #CoE or on Skype until all hours, it's taking a toll on me when I can't focus in class or I have to take a nap in the middle of the day to keep up with everyone else. My body clock is all sorts of off, and I can't blame it on a job I worked at the beginning of last summer anymore. It's time to make a change, and I'll start out with going to bed 30mins earlier each night.

    Next, I am working on improving my oral/dental hygiene. Over the Christmas holidays I realized just how much I was letting that fall to the wayside, which is somewhat shameful to 'fess up to. But I had been falling into a bad habit of lazily brushing my teeth, not flossing at all, and it was showing when I went to the dentist's the other week. The hygienist there gave me the stern "you can still change, but you have to start acting on it now" spiel about (particularly) gingivitis and gum health, but it served as a good wake up call for me.

    I also aspire to be better -- SO much better -- about posting in roleplays here. I really fell off hard in 2015 due to a wide array of reasons. There is such a diverse array of awesome, creative, and all-around cool stories to be told on ZEJ. I really believe in the creativity of the community we have assembled, and I want to get back into immersing myself in the experience. I flaked off over the last year and I need to make a big change -- allotting myself a time to just brainstorm and craft half-decent posts, and letting go and being okay with posting things that might not be "satisfactory" in my eyes in exchange for the continuation of a good story.
     
    #7 Eebit, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:07 AM
  8. Also...

    That's that shit I do like
     
    #8 Eebit, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:08 AM
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