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Post by Sirenna on Dec 29, 2006 17:52:07 GMT -5
;D It's that time of year again. Auld Lang Sine, etc Well, that and lots of which ain't so bad if you plan your sidling up tactics well in advance. Champagne is never a bad thing either, come to think of it. But what do you resolve to do this coming year? What did you resolve to do this year and did doing it or not doing it make a difference to you in the last twelve months?
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Post by Techguy on Dec 30, 2006 0:24:49 GMT -5
Good topic Sirenna!
Last year about this time, with Mrs. T's urging, I resolved to make time for activities outside work, and to do more spontaneous things just for fun. I was, and still am, a bit of a workaholic so these were big life-altering resolutions to make. In 2006 I made some strides in this area, not always succeeding but still it was a start. The beginning of the year was tougher, getting used to planning more fun things and doing some on the spur of the moment, but it got easier in the latter half of 2006. I now resolve to continue and build upon this area of self-improvement.
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Post by mwendyr on Dec 30, 2006 6:03:50 GMT -5
This year I resolved to complete my qualification with a high grade. And I did that. So proud. It made a difference to my self confidence, because of that I was confident enough to join a hard demanding choir. Next year - I intend to rebuild my life, which took some pretty drastic turns this year and has only just started to look up. I'd like to get a good job, earn some money, move on and just try to be happier overall. Hopefully it's achieveable. I also resolve to learn to play that Clarinet that it's my cupboard, that keeps asking to be played. Good luck to all those with resolutions. Where I work alot of people are all doing the 'I plan to quit smoking' ones that don't always work. I know they don't because they all tried it the previous few years Thankfully I don't smoke.
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Post by Metella on Dec 30, 2006 12:45:29 GMT -5
mwendyr - hang in there; I had to start over with just a car and two dogs to my name at 37 & have in the last 3 years made a nice little niche for myself. It is not easy, but it most definately can be done. My biggest tip is to really think out what you want out of life (not fantasy - mansion etc) and then keep that vision in your mind as you slog forward and make compromises and pass on things you kinda want to do ...... it comes together pretty quickly when you have a definate concrete goal.
Good luck to all with resolutions. I don't make resolutions; but I do try to review my self after events that don't feel right & see what I could have done better.
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Post by madger on Dec 30, 2006 14:05:08 GMT -5
I resolve to not make any resolutions, I don't want to let myself down.
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Post by Sirenna on Dec 30, 2006 14:24:52 GMT -5
mwendyr: Congratulations on your exam! Metella's words are so true. Baby steps and you'll be amazed at how far you'll have gone towards creating your new life this time next year. Hey, "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". [Lao Tzu, way back when.]
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Post by doctorj on Dec 30, 2006 15:58:17 GMT -5
it's funny how the year's small tragedies start to add up around the holidays. or it seems that way. i don't know.
me, i'm planning to do something ridiculously cheesy for my new year's resolution, like lose the holidays pounds with slimfast.
(omg! have i been hollywoodified? must resolve to undo this.)
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Post by mwendyr on Dec 30, 2006 16:39:56 GMT -5
Metella & Sirenna - Thank you for your kind advice, which is most definitely being taken and thought about. I'm going to try and see it as the journey being important as opposed to the destination. But I know the goal/destination is definitely important as well. I don't want the world, just my little place in it. Thank you. doctorj - It didn't just seem that way around the holidays for me, but it is true that you think about the previous year around this time. Don't use slimfast, just eat less. Happy New Year Everyone!!!! Wendy Hugs PS. Thank you for the 'congratulations'. I worked very hard on those exams and assignments and I AM very proud of myself. It was the only good thing to come out of 2006, so I'm carrying that one up high!
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Post by doctorj on Dec 30, 2006 18:39:03 GMT -5
my apologies, wendy -- i didn't mean to imply that your tragedies were small or imagined! of course, i have no idea what you've been through. (i was actually thinking of my own year... which was not easy.) it's inspiring to hear that through your troubles, you've found something to hang on to.
i've never tried slimfast. being the heathnut, whole foods, yogafreak that i am. but i'm curious.
(did you know that the new fashion in LA is negative sizes? as in: "do you have anything smaller than zero? i wear a negative 2.")
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Post by Sirenna on Dec 30, 2006 18:47:39 GMT -5
I heard that - very weird and sad for them.
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Post by member727 on Dec 31, 2006 2:42:20 GMT -5
Me, I like... not so much big women, as naturally-shaped women. You know, not fat, but curvaceous (which is a great word in itself ). I'm also not that into younger women either. I'm wondering if it's a reaction against the media focus on young, skinny girls (ie, barely out of high school and still able to fit into the clothing one wore ten years ago). Then again, I'm just weird anyway ;D
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Post by SarahIvy on Dec 31, 2006 3:28:25 GMT -5
Congrats to all those who reached important goals this past year! Myself, I'm not so much one for BIG resolutions. I adhere to the Uberlist Principle Start with 100, add one per year...107 in 2007. The idea is not to set unattainable resolutions, but to make a list of a whole bunch of smaller goals, and of course pepper in a couple of the big ones. So my list may read something like: -maintain fingernails like a grownup lady -buy new shower curtain -be healthier, lose 30 pounds (that would be the Big Resolution) -sew kitchen valance I'm at about 50 so far on my list, and there are tons of productive, awesome, mini-goals on there. Things I can actually achieve and feel really good about, and it's fun to see how many I can check off at the end of the year i think it might be gay men who are responsible for the negative minus image of the catwalk and Hollywood?
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Post by member727 on Dec 31, 2006 3:30:15 GMT -5
Hmm, I dunno. I guess you could come up with all kinds of theories*, but I'm pretty sure that in a few years it'll start to swing back (hopefully). There were some nice healthy-looking models back in the 60s and 70s; it's kind of strange to think that even then they were considered unhealthily skinny (and now we (ie, Society)'re condemning ourselves as being too fat) *I started meandering on some of these, and icked myself out with freudian theorising...
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Post by mwendyr on Dec 31, 2006 4:54:24 GMT -5
doctorj - No need to apologise. I'm not offended. thank you though. I had never heard of that though. I'm slim, but (and here's the irony) I'm trying to put on weight as opposed to lose it. The problem for me is that most women are bombarded with ads and stereotypes of thin women and healthy diets and so putting on weight is actually harder than you would think. I don't like skinny. Not on me anyway. Wendy Hugs
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Post by Sirenna on Dec 31, 2006 10:42:40 GMT -5
buy a new shower curtain, LOL!
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