Do you set new year's resolutions? - Blu-ray Forum

Mike16 · 12-29-2018, 02:42 PM

Statistics show that 9 out of 10 goal-setters end up breaking them, so I wonder, does anyone here actually bother making them anymore?

sk33tr · 12-29-2018, 03:11 PM

nope

what's the point? if you're not gonna do them at any other time, or you need some "resolution" to say you're gonna do something, then it's not gonna get done, anyway.

sure you can resolve to lose weight, eat healthier, etc. but why would you want to wait until a new year to do that? go ahead and do it! start right now! don't wait!

Monterey Jack · 12-29-2018, 04:30 PM

I would like to resolve to start dating next year, but I know that 2020 will roll around, and it won't have happened.

The only New Year's Resolution I ever kept to was to avoid watching movie trailers forever, and that was six years ago.

Mike16 · 12-29-2018, 04:42 PM

Well to each their own. I try to set goals for myself... it's worked for me in the past, back in '14 I set a goal at the beginning of the year to lose 50 pounds, by December of that year I had lost almost 100. Then in January 2016 I told myself I wanted to get out of debt (I had almost $30k of debt at the time), in early 2017 just a hair past when I wanted to resolve my debt, I was paid off the outstanding balance on my last credit card statement. I don't think I would've had the motivation to pay off $30,000 in a year otherwise.

Really I have no actual goals for 2019, but I'd love to improve my run times and get out of my dead end job -it's a good paying job, with unlimited over time but I've been stuck at entry level with no raises, every attempt to move up has been shot down for one reason or another.

Moviefan1203 · 12-29-2018, 05:03 PM

Of course. Always good to set goals for myself.

Cremildo · 12-29-2018, 05:16 PM

No.

bipbop13 · 12-29-2018, 05:56 PM

I'm setting a goal for myself, but I needed to do it anyway. Just happens that we're near the new year, so be it. Going to start back on the recumbant bike. 20 mins for 2 weeks, then adding 10 minutes for 2 weeks each until I'm up to 60 mins a day. I have to do this 7 days a week. This is self-imposed. I know if I take a day off, it will be 3 days, then a week....etc, etc. So I imagine after almost 10 months ( or over 300 hours ) of biking, I'll be getting into some sort of better shape. I'll be adjusting the tension of the bike on some sort of scale as well. No time like the present. Single and 51. Need to do it just for me though.

Captain Flint · 12-29-2018, 07:53 PM

Nope.

Al_The_Strange · 12-29-2018, 08:05 PM

Yes indeed, I have goals.

Lose weight, what a shocker. It's not that I've been waiting around for New Year's though--I have been running and lifting weights 3-5 times a week pretty regularly. What I want to do now is cut down on my eating/snacking, especially once all the holiday candy and cookies go away. I somehow gained a lot of weight since moving, so my goal is to get back down to the 200lbs range.
Read more. My goal: 50 books this year. Read 31 in '18, but I feel like I can do better. My bookshelves are quite loaded and I really want to get through the backlog--it feels much more prevalent than my movie backlog. It's also something that will help with the next thing...
Write more. Fiction writing is my hobby, but I haven't been able to make a story (short or long) that can be sell-able for some reason or another. My goal is to do something every day, and produce some kind of finished product by the year's end.
Sketch more. I have the tools, I'd like to do it more, learn it more, and maybe be able to draw something that looks good.

Other goals I have are the same as what I have at any other time: watch my unwatched movies, play the unplayed games, clean up the messes I have in my closets and computer files, and so on.

Scarriere · 12-29-2018, 08:31 PM

One thing I’d like to be much better at and should make a resolution for, is to be better at money management . I can be impulsive and frivolous and need to cut that back.

Scarface32 · 12-29-2018, 10:03 PM

I made a resolution 5 years ago to never make another resolution, it’s been working out great so far. Never broke the resolution.

HD Canuck · 12-30-2018, 11:50 PM

Yes and no for me.

Losing weight - sure, but I don't want to be one of these idiots that flood the gyms in early January. I prefer doing something different every day so that will be my goal, go out for more walks, or if there is snow on the ground go snow shoeing or x-country skiing. I also do downhill skiing so that will keep me occupied. I've been biking a lot more in the second half of 2018 too. I quit guzzling Coca-Cola too, I hardly drink it anymore. Just keep a small bottle in the fridge for mixing drinks if any guests are over. Gonna have to get some activity in as I'm going to be spending a bunch of time in front of the computer completing my Web Dev work practicum in the first quarter of 2019. Which leads me to my next resolution...

Finding a better career related job - Been slowly building up my digital marketing skills in volunteer positions, but realized I needed a credential. Decided to take a fast track Web Dev program in 2017 that had a digital marketing segment as part of it. Will be completing my certificate by working on my work practicum in the first quarter of 2019. I can nicely get it down as I'm on seasonal layoff from my labourer job. But this year I want to kiss the labourer jobs good bye and focus on my digital marketing career. And also...

Getting into a relationship. Sick and tired of being a bachelor.

Here's hoping 2019 will be a better year. Big one for me as it's also my big 4-0.

BizCat · 12-30-2018, 11:53 PM

I set goals for myself, but not necessarily new years resolutions.

civiclx · 12-31-2018, 03:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

I would like to resolve to start dating next year, but I know that 2020 will roll around, and it won't have happened.

The only New Year's Resolution I ever kept to was to avoid watching movie trailers forever, and that was six years ago.

Damn MJ, you need to hang out with Batman. He's in the same boat as yours but seems to be full of confidence. Maybe some of those good vibes would rub off. lol I'm in the same boat myself. I'm kind of at the point that I don't give a shit right now but it's not like in the too cool for school way. I've just gone numb a bit

Thinking positive may not make everything feel better but being mopey and thinking negative sure as shit isn't going to do you any favors so chin up

tiger_qc · 12-31-2018, 03:08 PM

Not since 2016 because I achieve pretty much all I wanted to. My 2016 resolution was to quit smoking, quit drugs, drastically cut fast food and stop drinking Coke. (took December 31st 2015 drunk AF, never expected to go throught with it) I successfully achieved all that and I'm not quitting drinking, talking s**t or over buying stuff which are my biggest remaining flaws.

RustinCohle · 12-31-2018, 03:13 PM

Stop banking my PTO (it's accrued so I'm always getting more) and actually go on vacations.

Oh, and drink absolutely nothing but water for all of 2019. I've already cut down my pop consumption over the years. Back during high school I would drink five or six cans a day. Then I cut it down to one a day, and now I really only drink maybe three or four cans a month. Going to try and cut it out completely though, beer too, and juice. Just nothing but water for 365 days.

Blu-Benny · 12-31-2018, 03:15 PM

between my work schedule giving me a little more time.....and my wife committing to taking better care of herself, I fully believe i'll stick to some sort of resolution this year.

my wife is a type 2 diabetic and she's been talking w/my cousin about the plan my cousin started on where she lost close to 30 pounds. my wife wants to drop a similar amount of weight. to keep her motivated, i'm going to do my best to take better care of myself as well. I wouldn't mind losing 10-15 pounds. I've been feeling "soggy" lately.

Mike16 · 12-31-2018, 06:49 PM

My biggest resolution for 2019 is to improve my run times, I'm currently at a 8 min mile, my best time ever was 4:25 when I was in high school, I'd love to get that back. Otherwise, I promised my fiancee I'd work a lot less than I did in 2018. So even though I'm planning to ruin that with scheduled OT this weekend it won't be a regular thing

RustinCohle · 12-31-2018, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike16

My biggest resolution for 2019 is to improve my run times, I'm currently at a 8 min mile, my best time ever was 4:25 when I was in high school, I'd love to get that back. Otherwise, I promised my fiancee I'd work a lot less than I did in 2018. So even though I'm planning to ruin that with scheduled OT this weekend it won't be a regular thing

I wish I could still run. Every time I run I get really bad pain in my lower back. Maybe it's poor posture or something, but I've switched to a bike.

I sound 60 but I'm not even 30 yet.

THE_FORCE · 12-25-2019, 10:37 PM

I don’t normally do the resolution thing, but next year I’m going to try to be a better person and like myself more.

As I age, I feel myself turning into Victor Meldrew or Doc Martin. I don’t want to be that moaning old git, but so often I find myself doing it and I don’t like the cynical person I have become.

Maybe it’s the male menopause. :/

12-29-2018, 02:42 PM	#1
Mike16 Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Jun 2012 Location:Upstate New York; SE Kentucky Blu-ray collection:108 DVD collection:12	Do you set new year's resolutions? Statistics show that 9 out of 10 goal-setters end up breaking them, so I wonder, does anyone here actually bother making them anymore?

12-29-2018, 08:05 PM	#9
Al_The_Strange Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Apr 2009 Location:Out there...past them trees... Home Theater Gallery:126 4K collection:1125 Blu-ray collection:4949 DVD collection:530 Digital collection:1013 Blu-ray reviews: 132 Trading Score:32	Yes indeed, I have goals. Lose weight, what a shocker. It's not that I've been waiting around for New Year's though--I have been running and lifting weights 3-5 times a week pretty regularly. What I want to do now is cut down on my eating/snacking, especially once all the holiday candy and cookies go away. I somehow gained a lot of weight since moving, so my goal is to get back down to the 200lbs range. Read more. My goal: 50 books this year. Read 31 in '18, but I feel like I can do better. My bookshelves are quite loaded and I really want to get through the backlog--it feels much more prevalent than my movie backlog. It's also something that will help with the next thing... Write more. Fiction writing is my hobby, but I haven't been able to make a story (short or long) that can be sell-able for some reason or another. My goal is to do something every day, and produce some kind of finished product by the year's end. Sketch more. I have the tools, I'd like to do it more, learn it more, and maybe be able to draw something that looks good. Other goals I have are the same as what I have at any other time: watch my unwatched movies, play the unplayed games, clean up the messes I have in my closets and computer files, and so on. Last edited by Al_The_Strange; 12-29-2018 at 08:10 PM.

12-29-2018, 03:11 PM	#2
sk33tr Banned Top contributor Member since:Jun 2011 Location:Alabama Home Theater Gallery:21 Blu-ray collection:234 DVD collection:9 MA collection:109 Digital collection:3 Trading Score:8	nope what's the point? if you're not gonna do them at any other time, or you need some "resolution" to say you're gonna do something, then it's not gonna get done, anyway. sure you can resolve to lose weight, eat healthier, etc. but why would you want to wait until a new year to do that? go ahead and do it! start right now! don't wait!

12-29-2018, 04:30 PM	#3
Monterey Jack Blu-ray Grand Duke Member since:Oct 2011 Trading Score:709	I would like to resolve to start dating next year, but I know that 2020 will roll around, and it won't have happened. The only New Year's Resolution I ever kept to was to avoid watching movie trailers forever, and that was six years ago.

12-29-2018, 04:42 PM	#4
Mike16 Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Jun 2012 Location:Upstate New York; SE Kentucky Blu-ray collection:108 DVD collection:12	Well to each their own. I try to set goals for myself... it's worked for me in the past, back in '14 I set a goal at the beginning of the year to lose 50 pounds, by December of that year I had lost almost 100. Then in January 2016 I told myself I wanted to get out of debt (I had almost $30k of debt at the time), in early 2017 just a hair past when I wanted to resolve my debt, I was paid off the outstanding balance on my last credit card statement. I don't think I would've had the motivation to pay off $30,000 in a year otherwise. Really I have no actual goals for 2019, but I'd love to improve my run times and get out of my dead end job -it's a good paying job, with unlimited over time but I've been stuck at entry level with no raises, every attempt to move up has been shot down for one reason or another.

12-29-2018, 05:03 PM	#5
Moviefan1203 Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Oct 2008 Location:Pennsylvania, USA Blu-ray reviews: 6 Trading Score:45	Of course. Always good to set goals for myself.

12-29-2018, 05:16 PM	#6
Cremildo Blu-ray Archduke Member since:Jul 2011 Location:Brazil 4K collection:165 Blu-ray collection:1050 Trading Score:51	No.

12-29-2018, 05:56 PM	#7
bipbop13 Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:Oct 2014 Location:Maine 4K collection:13 Blu-ray collection:3498 DVD collection:2490 Blu-ray reviews: 11 Trading Score:27	I'm setting a goal for myself, but I needed to do it anyway. Just happens that we're near the new year, so be it. Going to start back on the recumbant bike. 20 mins for 2 weeks, then adding 10 minutes for 2 weeks each until I'm up to 60 mins a day. I have to do this 7 days a week. This is self-imposed. I know if I take a day off, it will be 3 days, then a week....etc, etc. So I imagine after almost 10 months ( or over 300 hours ) of biking, I'll be getting into some sort of better shape. I'll be adjusting the tension of the bike on some sort of scale as well. No time like the present. Single and 51. Need to do it just for me though.

12-29-2018, 07:53 PM	#8
Captain Flint Blu-ray Knight Top contributor Member since:Apr 2015 4K collection:197 Blu-ray collection:710 DVD collection:51 Trading Score:1	Nope.

12-29-2018, 08:31 PM	#10
Scarriere Blu-ray Champion Top contributor Member since:Sep 2008 Location:The Diamond Capital of North America™ Home Theater Gallery:60 4K collection:153 Blu-ray collection:734 DVD collection:21 Trading Score:1	One thing I’d like to be much better at and should make a resolution for, is to be better at money management . I can be impulsive and frivolous and need to cut that back.

12-29-2018, 10:03 PM	#11
Scarface32 Blu-ray Baron Member since:Oct 2012 Location:New York 4K collection:24 Blu-ray collection:1170 DVD collection:341 Blu-ray reviews:4 Trading Score:3	I made a resolution 5 years ago to never make another resolution, it’s been working out great so far. Never broke the resolution.

12-30-2018, 11:50 PM	#12
HD Canuck Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Sep 2011 Location:Calgary, AB, Canada 4K collection:121 Blu-ray collection:1484 DVD collection:219 Digital collection:1536 iTunes collection:395 Blu-ray reviews:1	Yes and no for me. Losing weight - sure, but I don't want to be one of these idiots that flood the gyms in early January. I prefer doing something different every day so that will be my goal, go out for more walks, or if there is snow on the ground go snow shoeing or x-country skiing. I also do downhill skiing so that will keep me occupied. I've been biking a lot more in the second half of 2018 too. I quit guzzling Coca-Cola too, I hardly drink it anymore. Just keep a small bottle in the fridge for mixing drinks if any guests are over. Gonna have to get some activity in as I'm going to be spending a bunch of time in front of the computer completing my Web Dev work practicum in the first quarter of 2019. Which leads me to my next resolution... Finding a better career related job - Been slowly building up my digital marketing skills in volunteer positions, but realized I needed a credential. Decided to take a fast track Web Dev program in 2017 that had a digital marketing segment as part of it. Will be completing my certificate by working on my work practicum in the first quarter of 2019. I can nicely get it down as I'm on seasonal layoff from my labourer job. But this year I want to kiss the labourer jobs good bye and focus on my digital marketing career. And also... Getting into a relationship. Sick and tired of being a bachelor. Here's hoping 2019 will be a better year. Big one for me as it's also my big 4-0.

12-30-2018, 11:53 PM	#13
BizCat Blu-ray Prince Member since:Mar 2016 Location:oHIo 4K collection:914 Blu-ray collection:3132 DVD collection:90 Trading Score:159	I set goals for myself, but not necessarily new years resolutions.

12-31-2018, 03:08 PM	#15
tiger_qc Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Mar 2008 Location:Quebec City, Canada Home Theater Gallery:69 4K collection:171 Blu-ray collection:1420 DVD collection:221 Digital collection:86 iTunes collection:73 Trading Score:84	Not since 2016 because I achieve pretty much all I wanted to. My 2016 resolution was to quit smoking, quit drugs, drastically cut fast food and stop drinking Coke. (took December 31st 2015 drunk AF, never expected to go throught with it) I successfully achieved all that and I'm not quitting drinking, talking s**t or over buying stuff which are my biggest remaining flaws.

12-31-2018, 03:13 PM	#16
RustinCohle Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Mar 2016 Trading Score:238	Stop banking my PTO (it's accrued so I'm always getting more) and actually go on vacations. Oh, and drink absolutely nothing but water for all of 2019. I've already cut down my pop consumption over the years. Back during high school I would drink five or six cans a day. Then I cut it down to one a day, and now I really only drink maybe three or four cans a month. Going to try and cut it out completely though, beer too, and juice. Just nothing but water for 365 days.

12-31-2018, 03:15 PM	#17
Blu-Benny Michael Bay's #1 Fan Top contributor Member since:Aug 2008 Location:Wisconsin Home Theater Gallery:39 Blu-ray collection:552 DVD collection:108 Trading Score:138	between my work schedule giving me a little more time.....and my wife committing to taking better care of herself, I fully believe i'll stick to some sort of resolution this year. my wife is a type 2 diabetic and she's been talking w/my cousin about the plan my cousin started on where she lost close to 30 pounds. my wife wants to drop a similar amount of weight. to keep her motivated, i'm going to do my best to take better care of myself as well. I wouldn't mind losing 10-15 pounds. I've been feeling "soggy" lately.

12-31-2018, 06:49 PM	#18
Mike16 Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Jun 2012 Location:Upstate New York; SE Kentucky Blu-ray collection:108 DVD collection:12	My biggest resolution for 2019 is to improve my run times, I'm currently at a 8 min mile, my best time ever was 4:25 when I was in high school, I'd love to get that back. Otherwise, I promised my fiancee I'd work a lot less than I did in 2018. So even though I'm planning to ruin that with scheduled OT this weekend it won't be a regular thing

12-25-2019, 10:37 PM	#20
THE_FORCE Power Member Top ranked HT gallery Member since:Jul 2009 Location:ʞ∩ ǝɥ┴ © Home Theater Gallery:60	I don’t normally do the resolution thing, but next year I’m going to try to be a better person and like myself more. As I age, I feel myself turning into Victor Meldrew or Doc Martin. I don’t want to be that moaning old git, but so often I find myself doing it and I don’t like the cynical person I have become. Maybe it’s the male menopause. :/

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