Discussion 43

[lluvia]

Welcome to another discussion round! It is a pretty straightforward game where I give you a question that you'll answer in a new comment for two random cards. Since this is a discussion, don't be shy! Feel free to comment on other player's threads too~

It's a new year, so I'm sure this week's discussion will come as no surprise...

"Are you the kind who makes new year resolutions? How good are you at following through with them? Feel free to share some of your resolutions for this year if you have them!"
(Example: I set resolutions for myself almost every year, but I am always completely awful at getting anything done, sob. If I ever manage to fulfill one or two it's usually only accidentally, or because *something else* pushed me to do that. Otherwise... lol nope. :'| insert you-tried star here.)

Have fun everybody! You've got until January 26th, 2014 to comment!

Comments

[beccastareyes]

I try to set writing goals, but that's about it. It's easier to set smaller projects than yearly stuff.

[eat]

ahaha i make the generic ones (like exercise more........................) that i have no intention of actually keeping. if i manage to do any of them then that's just a happy coincidence. BUT OTHERWISE I DON'T... ACTIVELY TRY TO IMPROVE MYSELF oops

[samichan]

I don't even spend time on resolutions anymore. I always end up disappointing myself with them, so rather would just try my best to not disappoint myself in the year! xD

[harmonium]

I'm not really the person that makes new years resolutions because I never keep them. :'D I used to but then after never doing them it's just like \o_o/ WHATEVER

[ankari]

I'm great at thinking up stuff to do but not so good at doing it. So this year I decided not to make them new year resolutions but to make resolutions period, and try to follow through with those instead. I think I've been doing well enough so far! It's hard but it's also rewarding in the short term, because I'm so bad at doing that in general that every little thing I accomplish is like WHOA I MANAGED TO DO THIS TWO DAYS IN A ROW!! '-'

[instrumentality]

I don't make New Years resolutions, because I know I'm not likely to keep them. I don't think you should use the New Year as an 'excuse' to do stuff... especially if you know you have to do it anyway. XD

[anesidorian]

Hahaha I'm so bad at new year's resolutions... sometimes I make them, but I never keep them. I have pretty much given up using "new year's resolutions" as a motivator to get things done 8(

[saya]

My resolutions for this year? Worry less, live day by day and if there is possibility for traveling? Go for it =)

For now I'm actually doing the first two things almost ok =), for the traveling thing, if it happens... I shall see if I'll size the oportunity

[chianna]

I didn't have any because I know I never keep myself to it ^^;;

[inarticulate]

Stareyes mentioned writing goals, so I am reminded that those count. But yes! That's the only type of goal I set for myself, and I don't really count it as a New Year's Resolution so much as part of my continued goal to practice and improve my writing and eventually finish something original that I feel comfortable putting out there in public.

As far as what I consider more traditional types of New Year's Resolutions, I… don't do them because not only do I not meet them, they discourage me because I inevitably can't live up to them. I tend to set very high goals for myself because setting lower goals feels like admitting to failure, but setting high goals means I will fail anyway, so… Yeah. It's easier to just not set them and work on goals more slowly without that punch of I Am Going To Do This This Year behind them.

I'll also add a pairings goal I have, though: I want to find images for some of the decks that have been pending mastery on my collecting page for ages so that I can actually master them. I've been meaning to do this for ages and keep slacking off on it. Sob.

[melloi]

I don't make new year resolutions. I write short-term to-do-lists all the time and they'd be sort of the same to me.

[kaze]

i hate referring to it as a resolution, just because of the resolution mindset (make 'em but never go through with 'em), but i do make them, i suppose!

currently i'm just trying to make sure i draw something every day, and work on improving as an artist.

[euploeamulciber]

I make new year's resolutions. When I was younger, I thought I wouldn't be able to keep up with any real ones, so I promised to quit smoking (I've never smoked) and to decrease my usage of alcohol (I don't drink alcohol more than twice a year anyway). That way I succeeded every year, but as you might guess, I wasn't very satisfied. I've been making short term goals and... well, listing things I hope I'll get done?

My goals for this year are: losing more weight (~3kg per month, it's totally doable), completing series I've started watching but never finished, going back to school, not dying, improving my health and taking care of myself. I also plan to donate a lot of characters I want to collect and master some pairings (Yuki/Haruuuuu) soon-ish. Most of these are things I'd probably do anyway or have been trying to do (I've been losing weight actively for over a year so it's not just a new year thing orz;;) for a while. I'm feeling very motivated this year thanks to my health being better than ever! I feel like this year I'll actually be able to do these things. \o/

[empanadas]

I always suck at making resolutions because I'm too lazy/not motivated enough to make them come true. It's why I don't bother with them anymore.

[ets]

I don't do New Year's resolutions as it's one of the things I was made to do as a kid without really seeing the point as to why. XD; I do set goals with a fixed time range as and when I get in the mood to do so, but I feel somewhat uncomfortable when people declare that they'll do X for the new year on Facebook or IRL and then proceed to forget what they just said the very next week.

[jenybear]

To go to the gym more...it is free. Last time I made that my resolution, I went for roughly 6-7 months 3 times a week, did great but haha things changed and I stopped going. Now I wanna get back at it. Great stress reliever and maybe one day I can climb the stairs a few flights without feeling like I ran a marathon.

[dissever]

I used to be more motivated to fulfil them when I was younger, but I've sort of become jaded with the idea of long-term goal fulfilment. Nowadays I find it becoming increasingly more difficult to stay optimistic about the near future, let alone the distant one.

[danybel]

I always forget to make resultions actually, but whenever I do remember it ends up being "lose weight" and well it never works out LOL
But this year I'm trying to put more effort into everything in my life so hopefully this year it'll happen!

[portaling]

Lol no I am so terrible at resolutions. I kept one ever (write...more...) and that was about it. I've long since stopped making resolutions.

[beezebeora]

I don't have any resolutions ^^ I'm just doing everything as it comes.

[liberalism]

I haven't made resolutions since I was a kid when I first heard about them tbh... When I did make them, I forgot I made them;;; I think if I want to make a change in behaviour, what better time to start than now rather than the new year c:

[crystalweaver]

I... used to! But I pretty much never follow through on them, so I stopped. I do have goals, like eating better or procrastinating less, but I'm not good enough at sticking to them to make them resolutions...

[grimmjow]

I never set resolutions for myself. I just do what I feel like doing, and that's gotten me along pretty well so far. I have big expectations of myself, so anything less than is generally enough to get me by lol.

[admiral]

Haha these days I don't even bother. I used to set sort of long-range goals for myself around New Years, but those rarely panned out so...oops. I always tell myself stuff like I'm gonna write more!! and then never really do, lmao.

[sujini]

I used to make resolutions but never kept them so I stopped altogether XD