New Year's Resolutions Check In
Jan. 15th, 2022 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithWe made it through the second week of January. This is enough to get a better grasp of progress with New Year's resolutions. It's also into the period of rapid die-off. We have passed the second Friday in January and January 12, times when various studies say most people give up on their resolutions.
Feel free to copy the idea of a New Year's resolution check-in to your blog or other venue, to encourage yourself and your friends. Many people find that social support helps maintain resolutions. This is one area where online activity works as well as or better than facetime activity. Consider the pros and cons of getting your friends to help.
According to an email from Facebook, the survey found that those who shared their New Year's resolution on Facebook were 36 percent more likely to stick to it. Additionally, 52 percent of those surveyed agreed that sharing their resolutions with others is helpful when it comes to accomplishing them. In my experience, saying (or posting) things out loud definitely makes them feel more real. Plus, if other people know about a goal you're trying to achieve, it may motivate you to keep working at it so you can provide future updates on your progress.
Your Resolutions
How are your resolutions going?
Last week's post includes some ideas for troubleshooting.
4 Strategies For Staying Accountable To Your New Year’s Resolutions
10 Secrets of People Who Keep Their New Year’s Resolutions
New Year's resolutions for BFFs, because doing it together will keep you accountable
The scientific method for making your New Year’s resolutions stick (for life)
Experts Offer Tips to Help You Stick to Your New Year's Goals in 2022
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/experts-offer-tips-to-help-you-stick-to-your-new-years-goals-in-2022
Have you had challenges keeping up with your resolutions? If so, how did you solve them? What are your favorite ways to maintaining your motivation and momentum?
Check your goals for their positive-negative framing. Studies show that positive framing works better. The subconscious, like the universe, doesn't understand "no" very well. It grasps "do" a lot better.
If you haven't already done so, write some times in your calendar to revisit your goals.
My Resolutions
Here are my goals for 2022. See last week's post for my earlier accomplishments.
Completed total (4)
Completed in the past week (2):
* Clean the window prisms. [MET 1/5/22]
* Rehang misplaced window prisms. [MET 1/10/22]
* Make a post about my previous writings on death. [MET 1/2/22]
* When posting for Moment of Silence, include "carry on the work" suggestions based on each person's activities. [MET 1/9/22, 1/14/22]
Begun (14) (most of these cannot be finished quickly)
* Actually look at this list of goals, at least twice a month, before the end of the year in hopes of meeting more of them and not trying to cram in December. [1/3/22, 1/5/22, 1/7/22, 1/10/22 ]
* Continue holding one Poetry Fishbowl per month. [Short Forms 1/4/22]
* Participate in at least six bingo fests. [Begun 12/23/21 with Story Sparks Fest for January]
* Participate in the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
snowflake_challenge. [Begun 1/1/22]
* Run the Rose & Bay Awards for 2022. [Begun 1/1/22]
* Finish spending holiday money by the end of January. [Mine done 1/9/22]
* Keep track of my crowdfunding activity as the year goes on. [Begun 1/9/22]
* Keep track of things I would like to receive as gifts. [Begun 1/9/22]
* Read at least four cookbooks, marking recipes of interest. [Taste of Home 5 Ingredient Comfort Food 1/8/22]
* Make at least one new recipe per month. [ * mango coconut smoothie 1/7/22, ]
* Quite good, ** Made 2+ times
* Try at least one new cooking ingredient. [Ordered Itty Bitters and Blood Orange Syrup 1/9/22]
* Bullet journal family activities, aiming for at least one a week. [Begun 1/1/22]
* Bullet journal vegetable days. [Begun 1/1/22]
* Bullet journal watering plants weekly. [Begun 1/1/22]
Feel free to copy the idea of a New Year's resolution check-in to your blog or other venue, to encourage yourself and your friends. Many people find that social support helps maintain resolutions. This is one area where online activity works as well as or better than facetime activity. Consider the pros and cons of getting your friends to help.
According to an email from Facebook, the survey found that those who shared their New Year's resolution on Facebook were 36 percent more likely to stick to it. Additionally, 52 percent of those surveyed agreed that sharing their resolutions with others is helpful when it comes to accomplishing them. In my experience, saying (or posting) things out loud definitely makes them feel more real. Plus, if other people know about a goal you're trying to achieve, it may motivate you to keep working at it so you can provide future updates on your progress.
Your Resolutions
How are your resolutions going?
Last week's post includes some ideas for troubleshooting.
4 Strategies For Staying Accountable To Your New Year’s Resolutions
10 Secrets of People Who Keep Their New Year’s Resolutions
New Year's resolutions for BFFs, because doing it together will keep you accountable
The scientific method for making your New Year’s resolutions stick (for life)
Experts Offer Tips to Help You Stick to Your New Year's Goals in 2022
https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/experts-offer-tips-to-help-you-stick-to-your-new-years-goals-in-2022
Have you had challenges keeping up with your resolutions? If so, how did you solve them? What are your favorite ways to maintaining your motivation and momentum?
Check your goals for their positive-negative framing. Studies show that positive framing works better. The subconscious, like the universe, doesn't understand "no" very well. It grasps "do" a lot better.
If you haven't already done so, write some times in your calendar to revisit your goals.
My Resolutions
Here are my goals for 2022. See last week's post for my earlier accomplishments.
Completed total (4)
Completed in the past week (2):
* Clean the window prisms. [MET 1/5/22]
* Rehang misplaced window prisms. [MET 1/10/22]
* Make a post about my previous writings on death. [MET 1/2/22]
* When posting for Moment of Silence, include "carry on the work" suggestions based on each person's activities. [MET 1/9/22, 1/14/22]
Begun (14) (most of these cannot be finished quickly)
* Actually look at this list of goals, at least twice a month, before the end of the year in hopes of meeting more of them and not trying to cram in December. [1/3/22, 1/5/22, 1/7/22, 1/10/22 ]
* Continue holding one Poetry Fishbowl per month. [Short Forms 1/4/22]
* Participate in at least six bingo fests. [Begun 12/23/21 with Story Sparks Fest for January]
* Participate in the
snowflake_challenge. [Begun 1/1/22]* Run the Rose & Bay Awards for 2022. [Begun 1/1/22]
* Finish spending holiday money by the end of January. [Mine done 1/9/22]
* Keep track of my crowdfunding activity as the year goes on. [Begun 1/9/22]
* Keep track of things I would like to receive as gifts. [Begun 1/9/22]
* Read at least four cookbooks, marking recipes of interest. [Taste of Home 5 Ingredient Comfort Food 1/8/22]
* Make at least one new recipe per month. [ * mango coconut smoothie 1/7/22, ]
* Quite good, ** Made 2+ times
* Try at least one new cooking ingredient. [Ordered Itty Bitters and Blood Orange Syrup 1/9/22]
* Bullet journal family activities, aiming for at least one a week. [Begun 1/1/22]
* Bullet journal vegetable days. [Begun 1/1/22]
* Bullet journal watering plants weekly. [Begun 1/1/22]
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Date: 2022-01-15 11:31 pm (UTC)My goals have been a bit up and down so far this year. I was sick over the weekend and the beginning of this week, so I didn't feel like doing hardly anything, and a few of my repeat goals got missed. I'm feeling better now though, so I'm picking them up again and hoping to stick with them.
I found that last year, marking all the "repeatables" on a desktop calendar and giving myaelf srickers for accomplishing all tasks in a day worked pretty well. I also set rewards for 5, 15, and 30/31 stickers in a month, to encourage doing as much as possible. I was pleased with the success I saw so I chose to repeat that method this year.
I also made a chart so I could keep track of how many days I miss in a month for my repeated tasks, so I have a metric at the end of the year for how well I did. I figure this will also let me spot any patterns that might occur with regards to fading early or picking up steam late.
It's still too early for me to tell if I'm having problems with some of my on-going resolutions, because I basically lost a week to being sick. I am going to have to keep an eye out though, because I know there are a few that might give me trouble.
Thoughts
Date: 2022-01-15 11:37 pm (UTC)Alas!
>>I found that last year, marking all the "repeatables" on a desktop calendar and giving myaelf srickers for accomplishing all tasks in a day worked pretty well.<<
Writing things on a calendar works well for me. If I see them, I'm more likely to remember them. The bullet journal pages worked too.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2022-01-16 02:28 am (UTC)Yes, I find this works for me too. If I don't see them, I'm far more likely to forget them. I actually have three copies this year; the master list that I made as I was thinking of resolutions, the calendar that marks down everything I could nail a time frame to, and a second copy of the goal list, broken down into "daily," "weekly," "monthly," "yearly/miscellaneous" categories. The broken down copy helps in two ways. One, it organizes the goals so I can clearly see which ones need more attention and which ones need less; two, it allowed me to mark down whether I had recorded the goal anywhere without making the original unreadable. And it gave me a space to acknowledge the goals that don't easily fit on the calendar.
>>The bullet journal pages worked too.<<
I found the bullet journal pages were too much work for me. It added an extra step that took energy without really adding anything. But learning what doesn't work can be valuable too, so that was good. :)
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2022-01-17 09:24 pm (UTC)Re: Thoughts
Date: 2022-01-18 04:16 pm (UTC)That is good. That's honestly a little bit how I feel about my therapist; she does very client-led therapy (which is good) but sometimes it seems like not quite enough guidance or help from her. But at least it gets me thinking about things, so there has been some improvement. And she's given me a few good resources.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2022-01-20 10:26 pm (UTC)Re: Thoughts
Date: 2022-01-21 05:23 am (UTC)