New Year Resolution Posting - Make next year the biggest year of your life
 

Now I don’t want to be overly optimistic here, but please people try to think big. Most people blow their new years resolution within the first couple of months anyway, so you may as well fail at something where people can say “well, they bit off more than they could chew trying that.”

None of this ‘I’m going to lose weight,’ or ‘I’m going to stop smoking/ drinking/ being lazy.’ If you really wanted those things you should just do them, not be procrastinating the last few weeks of the year away not even with a hollow promise, but with the promise, of a hollow promise.

Come on people make it big and extreme. Something that even if you fail trying will still be something that you can tell your grandkids about. The kind of thing that has us all reading and going ‘Oooooo’ at the wonder of it all.

Ok here is mine to start the ball rolling:-

This year my new year’s resolution is to start my own cult.

What do you reckon? Do want a piece of this action?

;)

hehehe yeahhh
hmmm i'd like to strive for something big...
I'd like to try and live in Europe starting in the spring..
let's see if I'll actually do it this time.

My resolutions are the same as always: To watch more TV and to drink more.

I'm really gonna try this time!

You're my hero!
I really dont't have any resolutions. Not to fuck up too bad I guess.

Make enough as freelance illustrator to quit my job

I have a few of them:
Travel internationally at least once a month (provided I'm not in training)
Improve my guitar playing
Actually be able to pick girls up (ok, I'm holding my breath there)
Get in better shape
Pick up an artistic hobby

Yeah, it's a lot, but I'm practically unemployed!

To actually pass my courses.

haha, a bigger goal than I would have thought.

Get laid.

Or get fit and do well in school for a change.

Either way would be nice

Same as last year -- get in shape.

Be a hermit
Whine more
Complain more
Drink more coffee
Become more cynical, jaded and bitter
Roll my eyes so often, as a scientific experiment, to see if they really will get stuck in the back of my head.
Plan world domination
Find someone who will tolerate me for more than 10 minutes at a stretch.

I never make New Year's resolutions-I don't like to make promises I can't keep. But if I was to make any it would be:
Quit smoking
Find a 'normal' job

I resolve to the be the best serial killer in the history of the world... ever.

Of course, this means you will never know of my success. To be the best means to not be caught and not discovered. You will just have to wonder if I am coming for you.

I've had enough. I'm going home. The year to die.....

Charlatan I'll p.m you my address....

Well, if you ever need any pointers.... ;)

Something big, eh?

Very well. This year I will learn and master the art of time control.

Of course, I have no idea how to start....maybe I should buy a watch?

To own the oldest biggest still habital castle in scotland and keep a harem of kilted men (who arent that kind of "gay" good looking like thats always posted in the full monty forum) in my fully furnished dungeon :thumbsup:

I only have one resolution.. to drink more.

Hey! You are *so* copying me!

I'm going to reclaim my ancestoral land from the sheep farmers and build affordable and environmentally sustainable/low impact housing for all.

Just you wait and see.

jwoody, you can be in my harem if you do that in scotland :icare:

Reminds me of someone else...

Northumberland first, then Scotland.

Then.... the WORLD!!!!!

Well, you know, the world can wait until 2007. I don't want to burn myself out.

but jwoody!! just think....as part of a harem of kilted men, you'd have lots of help in reclaiming your ancestoral land!!!!

After the dust settles.... Scotland can be all yours.

We'll put an end to a thousand years of non-cooperation and move forward into a whole new era. :D

Hmmm...my resolution is to transfer schools successfully (no hitches) and to travel.

Some pretty hardcore resolutions going on there.

Harems and dungeons, serial killers, dying, reclaiming ancestral territory, moving to Europe, quit work and become a freelance illustrator, mastering time control, plan world domination while being a hermit.

I think you can all be pretty proud of yourselves with those.

Come on the rest, let's see what you are made of. See if you can top any of those.

Oh God, I'm becoming a thread cheerleader. - Not a resolution, I can assure you.

I intend to make a 4.0 my spring semester, lose 50 pounds, and have sex at least 150 times in the next 365 days. :thumbsup:

To travel more than I did this year... I'm not sure that we'll be able to do the same total mileage (which I haven't figured out how to get but I'm sure I can figure it out,) and total destinations.

There's 194 countries and 437 cities with over 1 million people in them to go visit. While I don't think I can do the pokeman of getting them all, I'd like to see as many as I can. There's got to be a way I can do this as a lifestyle and not have to work at a day job. It would be great to do my job from where ever I am in the world via the internet connection. Maybe in my lifetime I'll be able to work that way too.

I am going to make one hundred million dollars on the stock market within 6 months, and buy my own island in the south Pacific. I will then find a way to completely control the international market for watercress! Muhahahaha.

I'm going to transform my garden into such a landscaping masterpiece that
it'll get on TV and be in all the gardening mags and members of the public
from all over the land will want tickets to come and view it.

That or quit smoking.

Major goals for 2006:
1) To understand myself better and know what I want. Basically to quit bullshitting myself.

2) To learn how to love ktspktsp better in the second year of our separation in a long-distance relationship.

3) To figure out whether I should continue in my PhD program.
--If I do continue, then to decide whether I can risk delaying my fieldwork for possibly two years for the sake of above relationship, and decide what to do with that time.
--If I don't continue, then to decide what the hell to do with the rest of my life.

Minor goals (that matter a lot for my daily sanity):
Keep going to weekly counseling, working out 3 times a week, tidying my apartment once a week, and cleaning my bathroom at least once a month. And to give meditation a serious try, in an attempt to avoid the severe bitterness that has enveloped my life lately.

Quit smoking. It sounds small, but very important in my little niche in the world. Keeping the body count low in the attempt, is also a resolution.

To be happier

that's it.

:)

sweetpea

1) Take the first steps towards running for poltical office
2) Learn brail
3) Cut ties with apathetic friends and co-workers
4) Continue to give my daughter the gift of knowledge and virtue, to the best of my abilities
5) Oh s**t! Spoiler: Quentin is the carver!!!

I will attempt to study and learn how to speak German
Find an IT job somewhere in the world that will pay $15-$25/hr
Travel to numerous European countries in an 120 day backpacking adventure

1... Make sure that the business really takes of and stop gettiing distracted online. :rolleyes:
2... Travel to at least 2 new countries.
3... Completely uncover the so called " family secrets" that i'm currently trying to solve. :crazy:
4...Learn to play a musical instrument.
5...Not get so drunk that i can't remember what i have done again! :confused:

I can only offer my part in this resolution, but with help, I resolve to have a child in the '06.

new years resolution:

to win over $25,000 in poker tournaments.

hmmmm...thinking big.

Buy my own house with a view of the sea and a big terrace
have my art studio in the same house that I live in
Earn enough through my art work to quit my current job
make at least 3 new good friends and go out more
be happy on my 26th birthday

To win the first big lottery in Oklahoma, then quit my job and raise my sheep. Might do some coding on the side for fun. Send my brother back to college and put enough away to send my sister to college wherever she wants to go....oh yeah, pay my pickup off and build a house. The rest I'll make up as I go along.

1) Save enough money to pay off a bill that's been hanging over my head for some time
2) Save enough money to go to Rochester (No. 1 has to happen first, but I'm trying to ferret away small amounts of cash for the trip). As it's around birthday time I expect to get some "birthday help" from parents/boyfriend, but we'll see.
3) Continue to improve my culinary skills by cooking more often and more adventurously, and also to work on my baking
4) To write the cookbook I want to--the subject would be how to change recipes for carnivores into recipes for vegetarians that carnivores want to eat too (this is a subject near and dear to my heart, as my SO is a vegetarian and I am not, and as most traditionally vegetarian recipes try and sneak in all these things you would not want to eat I tend towards modifying existing non-vegetarian recipes).

1) Get laid more than I did this year. Only need to get laid three times to exceed this years total, but it is an ambitious goal for me.
2) Work on my people skills.
3) Get a career, not just a job.

2 times in one year? You MAN WHORE!!! :lol:

still has me beat by 2... :lol:

Your extremely vague "spoiler" has already prepared you in running for political office. Where should I send my cash and what can you promise in return? :D

Sorry, I was watching nip/tuck and was caught off guard. Quentin was the obvious carver, so I figured that he would be the last person the writers would choose. They got me.

Fund raising doesn't start until 2008, but thanks for the confidence! I'll be running on the green card, but I'll probably make my decisions based on a combination of loose socialism and what I feel is the spirit of the constitution and the bill of rights. I'll do my best to give incentives to those who use alternative fuels and energy sources. Those using biodiesel, hydrogen, etc. will get a rebate from the city, and can apply for stickers to use the carpool lane. Then I'd start small tax hikes on local buisnesses that dump polution into the air, offering the buisnesses lower taxes if they can become more environmentally friendly. My btoher and I developed asthma because of the polution in San Jose, and I'd like to help those who haven't been effected to that degree yet. I'll try to cover as much of my city in solar shingles as possible. I'd like to get San Jose off the grid (except for wind and hydro). We already have plenty of hydrogen powered public busses, which I had a small part in. I'd also like to work out a better arangement with the teachers unions of the city. I've seen so many strikes lately. It might be necessary to put into place several measures that raise taxes in order to ensure that our teachers can actually feed themselves. Those are generally my larger plans, but it's only a very general explaination. I've got the whole thing planned out (been working on it for a while).

My new years resolutions?

1) Advance as far as possible in Tang Soo Do (see if I can go beyond green belt - which I should get in April or May)
2) Graduate from college in May
3) Get a job that pays well and I enjoy
4) Get and stay in shape - put on some muscle and quit being so scrawny.

Hopefully I can do all of those - but we'll see. If I can't do #2, I'm screwed - the rest are flexible ;)

1. Gain ten pounds and keep my weight at a minimum of 115.
2. Try to talk to people at work more and not hide in my office so much.

Gilda

I'll be more than willing to donate a few pounds towards this cause :p

I'm not the new year's resolution making type, but losing this ever-growing beergut and moving forward career-wise are two things very high up on the to-do list.

No more weed. I'm pretty sure I can pull this off as I just don't enjoy getting high anymore.

what happened to the "not the norm" big over the top resolutions the OP asked for?

I'm not one for New Year's resolutions at all - can't remember the last time I made one - but here's an honest thing I'd like to do in 2006 AND a somewhat ambitious resolution like the thread starter asked for ;):

I would like to cycle across the United States. (I just need to find a way to get the money required to do it!)

In preparing for that, I can accomplish a more typical resolution to actually make a habit of exercising (which I haven't done in at least 4 years).

Oh, and here's an ambitious plan, although it may not seem like it: I'd like to get straight A's for the rest of my classes this year (which will be 8). Trust me, with how lazy I am and how much I procrastinate, that's REALLY ambitious ;) But, if I can get rid of that, straight A's should be nice and easy :)

To those with the massive 'not the norm' resolutions, I salute you. :thumbsup:

To those of you who want to loose weight, quit smoking and cut back on your drinking, maybe you could throw in a resolution along the lines of reading the basic outline of the thread before posting. :hmm:

Or not. No pressure. Last years resolution was to start fewer arguments
:icare:

And to those of you thinking about posting here I say this...do it, do it, do it now!

1) Maintain avg score of above 95%
2) Gain muscle mass and be able to juggle studytime to acheive Adrian Brody's body. *sounds gay*
3) Win a DJ Skratch battle.

To play it as it lays and eat what's put before me, but keep my eyes on the stars.

I'm not one for New Year's Resolutions, so the following are things I'd like to sort of get round to doing this year but probably won't -

*Find out what the hell's wrong with me. Always feeling ill...I suspect I might have a stomach ulcer or something.

*Cut down on smoking. So, no cigarettes unless I'm with people or have just finished work, and also, to rapidly reduce the speed at which I smoke cigarettes when drinking. I mean, I'm a social smoker...but I socialise a lot so such a label is uh, misleading, to say the least. I go days without a cigarette and then smoke like half a pack or more in a night.

*Stop caring what other people think so much

*Get out of my comfort zone and meet more new people, instead of only hanging around the close friends and associates I've had for years.

*Kill the creator of the Crazy Frog ringtone and associated products.

1.- Eat right and exercise regularly.
2.- Get up at a set time everday.
3.- Be nicer to people.
4.- Manage my money better.
5.- Find a meaning in life.

I think that's something we can all strive towards this year. The noblest resolution so far I think. A great and selfless act that benefits mankind and the generations to come.