New Year's Resolutions Check In

[ysabetwordsmith]

We 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 reached the second Friday in January, also known as Quitter's Day because so many people give up their New Year's resolutions then.

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. Apps work too. Consider the pros and cons of getting your friends to help.  Here on Dreamwidth we have do_it and awesomeers that may prove helpful for social support of goals.

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?

Top-8 New Year's Resolutions for 2023 - WVNS

How To Set - And Keep - Your New Year's Resolutions

The 10 Best Tips to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions in 2023

Tips to keep those New Year's Resolutions going in 2023


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.


My Resolutions

Here are my goals for 2023. See last week's post for my earlier accomplishments.

Completed (5)

* Hang 2023 calendars. [MET 1/4/23]

* Put sugar savers into sugar packages. [MET 1/8/23]

* Launch at least one new poetic series. [MET 1/5/23 A Poesy of Obscure Sorrows]

* Launch birdfeeding community. [MET 1/1/23]

* Finish spending holiday money by the end of January. [MET Family fund done 1/3/23, my personal fund done 1/10/23.]


Begun (15) (most of these cannot be finished quickly, but 1 has been moved to the Completed list)

* 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. [1/1/23, 1/4/23, 1/5/23, 1/6/23, 1/7/23, 1/8/23, 1/10/23, 1/11/23, 1/12/23, 1/13/22]

* Fill in desk calendar with repeating posts and other memoranda by the end of January. [Begun 1/1/23]

* Write at least 400 poems. [Begun 1/3/23]

* Continue holding one Poetry Fishbowl per month. [Begun 1/3/23 Short Forms, ]

* Participate in the snowflake_challenge. [Begun 1/1/23]

* Continue posting in twitter_refugees to help newcomers to Dreamwidth. Make at least one post per month in 2023. [Begun 1/1/23 A New Year's Friendzy 1/2/23 Improving Communities on Dreamwidth, ]

* Run the Rose & Bay Awards for 2022. [Begun 1/1/23]

* Keep track of my crowdfunding activity as the year goes on. [Begun 1/1/23]

* Keep track of things I would like to receive as gifts. [Begun 1/1/23]

* Read at least four cookbooks, marking recipes of interest. [Begun 1/11/23 The Way Home: A Celebration of Sea Islands Food and Family with over 100 Recipes, ]

* Make at least one new recipe per month. [ * Banana Bread Brownies 1/6/23, * Spicy Butterscotch Sauce 1/11/23]
* Quite good, ** Made 2+ times

* Bullet journal family activities, aiming for at least one a week. [Begun 1/1/23]

* Bullet journal vegetable days. [Begun 1/1/23]

* Bullet journal watering plants weekly. [Begun 1/1/23]

* Do more archiving of web links to combat linkrot. I primarily use the Wayback Machine and Archive.fo, but there are other options. [Begun 1/1/23]

Comments

[filkerdave]

Many years ago, I resolved not to make any more New Year's resolutions. I've stuck to it fairly well.

[readera]

One of my main 2023 goals was to make a habit of walking my dog everyday. I've only missed 1 day so far!

[arlie]

> 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.<

When I read this, I immediately started thinking about the nature of the comparison group, and the likelihood that the numbers given were simply made up out of whole cloth. I "trust" facebook to do whatever they believe to be profitable, without regard for any form of ethics. And very few advertisements even try to give usefully accurate information.

Obviously this is apropos of nothing, and I don't even do new year's resolutions. But I couldn't resist commenting on the ways that some things that look like supporting evidence may work in reverse, given a sufficiently bad reputation.

[ETA: congrats on your progress with your resolutions.]

[goatgodschild]

For me, I don't set New Year's resolutions until March. By then, the shape of the year will have formed, and it's one of the most beautiful times of the year, it feels like everything's new! In January and February, you just want to hunker down as much as you can, and that makes it feel even worse.

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[0152062874]

My only goal is to pass my licensing exams and start earning enough money to move out of my dad's place. I recently stopped taking my ADHD meds. Keeping them is a financial issue for me and I don't really like how my body feels on them. However most of my classes have been entirely auditory learning, which doesn't work for me.

I was used to getting a lot of tutoring and help with school while growing up, so I got this label early on about "one of the smart ones" and never got diagnosed until a few months ago. I hardly feel like I live up to that label anymore, which ends up causing a whole private emotional thing that psyches me out sometimes.

But I'm studying early, avoiding modern social media formats that monetize attention, and am dedicating a lot of time to school to make up for it. The new test prep program that I'm using outside of school actually breaks down the information in a way that makes sense to me, so it's an encouraging thing.

Still going strong

[fuzzyred]

Congrats on your progress so far!

I have managed to keep up my repeating goals and have not missed a day yet for anything. I haven't made as much progress on the bigger goals frex starting a second knitting project, working on my quilt, starting a puzzle, etc, but I'm still very happy with the progress I have made.

I've been doing pretty well with answering comments as well, though I do still have a couple I need to get back to.

[adriensawriter11]

What if u dont have facebook, would u just use another social media site?