1. I will control my personal spending which means no new camera equipment over $500 and no longer having to steal money from savings to pay off my credit card bill (after March… Weddings are expensive, especially when they are your sister’s)
- F : While camera equipment purchases were kept at a minimum credit card bills were not kept at a minimum.
- D+ : I accomplished this goal from 1/1/2007 – 4/2/2007, lost weight and felt great. Unfortunately I came down with a nasty cold, got out of the routine and never picked it up again. This same pattern is one I haven’t broken from in the past 5 years where my workout routine is thrown off by a bad cold and never picked up again.
- F : I purchased the study guide and it’s still in plastic. The root of this issue is the lack of desire to go back to school. I know to avoid the proverbial glass ceiling I need to get my MBA but honestly; I think it is nothing more then a bunch of letters and a waste of time and money.
- D : Although my finishing time of 2:28:52 was my worst time ever, the race was the most difficult and mathematically I improved tremendously against the field. If conditions were better I truly believe I would have broken the 2 hour mark.
- C : I am ashamed not to get an A on this resolution. Such an easy thing to do with such amazing benefits and I was unable to accomplish this goal on a regular basis. I did so poorly one month that I got a kidney infection.
- F- : Is an F-minus a real grade? I actually accomplished this goal prior to Thanksgiving and in celebrating the accomplishment gained every pound and then some between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.
- B : I gave up on flossing regularly and instead purchased one of those electric toothbrushes with the built in flosser so technically I’m flossing twice a day!
- B : Even with a new computer loaded with Microsoft Vista, the most useless operating system ever launched, giving me major issues with all of my photo software I was still able to keep up with loading my photos onto Kodak Gallery (nee Ofoto) within 2 weeks. I experienced a few delays in the summer or I would have given myself an A.
- F : No excuses, I did not scrapbook the entire year.
- A : Every morning without fail.
- F : I am a terrible, awful, horrible friend. I wish I had the time and energy at the end of the day to call friends. I am always concerned that a call is going to take 3 hours and I just don’t have that time.
- F : The more time I have in an airplane, the more I read. Without regular airplane time I need to find a way to get reading back into the schedule.
- D : The dogs hate being brushed and therefore I hate doing it. To make up for their lack of brushing they are getting groomed more frequently.
- A : At least I did something right!
7 comments:
It is possible to floss daily. I do it.
I used to floss twice a day actually. Once I went to the dentist for a cleaning and the hygienist asked me how many times a week I flossed, to which I replied "fourteen."
She then (somewhat surprised) said "you floss twice a day?"
And I said "No, I just wait until Sunday and then floss 14 times in a row."
Making a resolution? Grade: A+
Sticking to them? Grade A (you get better than 90%, at least!)
Admitting publically what you want to change in your life? Priceless.
My resolution this year? To talk (saying "No" and "hot" does not count)
I think your problem is that your resolutions are too quantifiable. Be more vague, and then you can take liberties with the grading. For example, instead of saying "I will make fun of other people's shoes no more than twice a week," I would say, "I will try to stop being such a bitch." At that point, whether I made it or not becomes pretty much a judgement call, so I give myself an A and everybody wins. Except the people with the ugly shoes.
Kira- I should have you talk to my co-workers and health coach! I truly believe vagueness is the key to accomplishing goals but they insist that these quantitative goals are necessary to achieve great things. As you can see with my 2008 list I have taken a tactic that I think you could too embrace; find goals that are both good for you and enjoyable (well, besides the lose weight thing).
Lousy Cook: I think I would do much better with the floss 14 times consecutively, much easier to remember once a week and then count to 14. I am trying to develop a much better evening routine to include items beyond brushing my teeth (like washing my face, flossing, using night cream, stretching my quads and calves). "They" say it takes 21 days to make a routine habit... we'll see.
Diane- I look forward to helping you with your resolution. I've been known to use words bigger then "No" and "Hot" (unless I'm at a singles bar and really drunk).
Hey - I don't remember "hot" or "no" from Filthy McNasty's.... but then I also don't remember how to get there.....
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