New Year's Resolutions Check In

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We've passed the third week of January. This includes more of the dropoff days: January 17, January 19, and the third Friday.

It's good for people to make their own plans, with help if wanted or needed. Variations of "How is that working for you?" are used to gauge progress. Here's an example from Brief Action Planning with a flow chart. This concept applies to most problem-solving situations, and it's something that anyone can learn to use.

The above approach is a shorthand version of the engineer problem-solving method. It requires following several steps such as defining a problem, brainstorming solutions, testing a solution, evaluating results, and making changes if necessary.


Your Resolutions

Have you missed some of your New Year's resolutions? Are you struggling to maintain ongoing goals? That happens to most people. Consider what you can do about it. Basically, you have several options:

* Keep going as you are, hoping to level-grind through the slump.

* Attempt to adjust your current New Year's resolution(s) for better results.

* Abandon the ineffective New Year's resolution(s), and set some other new goal(s) instead.

* Abandon your New Year's resolution(s) without making any other new goal(s), and focus on something else altogether.

5 Ways To Get Failed New Year's Resolutions Back on Track

Ditch Your Resolutions Day is Here -- Life Time Experts Share Tips to Ensure Your Goals Stick

It’s Not You -- It’s Your Goals: Knowing When to Quit

Don’t ditch your resolutions – make them work for you

How to Refresh Your Failed New Year’s Resolutions

Masterlist of Alternatives

What to Do If You've Already Failed at Your New Year's Resolution

What to do when resolutions start to collapse

What to Do When You’ve Totally Failed Your New Year’s Resolutions


Failure

Failing New Year's resolutions -- or any goal -- tends to make people feel bad about themselves. All emotions are valid, but sometimes your emotions lie to you. Practice self-compassion and self-care. Know emotional first aid for friends who are having a hard time with this.

4 Ways to Embrace Failure

10 Healthy Ways to Cope With Failure

12 Reasons Why New Year's Resolutions Fail -- Starchaser Healing Arts

How New Year's Resolutions Can Impact Your Mental Health

How to Analyze Your Failures

Impact of failed New Year’s Resolution on mental health and how to set realistic goals

New Year’s Resolutions are bad for Your Mental Health: Why You Shouldn’t Beat Yourself up About This Year

Everything Is Awful and I'm Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up

The Problem with New Year's Resolutions -- UCSD Guardian


Mistakes

If you're not making any mistakes, you're not learning, you're coasting. Screw up with enthusiasm! Find exciting new mistakes to make! Because that's how we learn.

Accept mistakes -- Follow Your Heart

5 Reasons Why You Need To Start Learning From Mistakes

40 Invaluable Lessons You Can Learn From Your Mistakes

How to Learn From Mistakes: 8 Steps to Follow

How to Bounce Back from Your Mistakes

How to Learn to Laugh at Your Mistakes

5+ Ways to Develop a Growth Mindset Using Grit & Resilience -- Positive Psychology


Letting Go

It's okay to let go of goals that aren't working out for you. There's no obligation to stick with something that's more trouble than it's worth.

Should You Keep Or Drop Your Goal? Here’s How To Know If A Goal Is Worth Pursuing

When It's OK to Quit Your New Year's Resolutions

Why I Don't Feel Bad About Already Breaking My New Year's Resolution

3 Ways to Learn to Let Go of Things -- wikiHow

40 Ways to Let Go and Feel Less Pain -- TinyBuddha


New Goals

Consider trying a different goal. Smaller goals may work better. Screw January, set a new goal for February! It's shorter and easier anyway.

Fun New Year's Resolutions

Monthly Resolutions

One-Week Resolutions

One-Day Resolutions

Seasonal New Year's Resolutions

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My Goals

Here are my goals for 2026.

Completed: 3

* Participate in threeforthememories for January. [MET 1/16/26 on my blog and in the community]

* Finish at least two catalog orders for spring plants by the end of February. Orders sent in March or later do not count. [MET 1/7/26 American Meadows order, 1/16/26 American Meadows order arrived, 1/18/26 OPN Seed order, ]

* Get 3 more latches with snaps and install at least 2 of them. [MET 1/16/26 bought 3 latches with snaps, 1/21/26 installed 2 latches with snaps]


Begun: 3
(most of these cannot be finished quickly)

* Put more bee plants in the prairie garden. [Begun 1/18/26 with OPN Seed order]

* Work on proto-landrace sunflowers (to be called 'Summer of Love'). [Begun 1/16/26 bought sunflower 'Evening Sun Mixed Colors' seeds, ]

* Visit a Pagan store at least 3 times. [Begun 1/16/26 Half Moon, ]