Resolutions

[alarosalpn]

Anyone make a resolution this year?

My resolution is to lose physical and financial weight...no more excuses!
I believe the financial weight loss will be most benificial to my health...The stress and anxiety I get over $$ is pathetic...
Although,I did make a few some great strides this year...I put my mortgage on a weekly payment...This helps 2 fold for me...1)it's out of the bank the same day I get paid so there's no chance to use it...2)my house will be paid off a few years early...I think around 7 years early....The reason I did this earlier this year was because I was facing my 2nd loan modification in 2 years...(we've only owned for 4 years!)
My next step is to catch up on my 3 monthly bills...I'm in the process of that now...
After that I've written out a weekly budget...I cant save $$ so I pay weekly...
I am also gonna start putting $$ in an envelope every week to start an EF...I'm gonna try to keep this envelope but if I find I'm dipping into it I'll give it to my SIL...
I'm done being stressed...

So...what's your resolution?

[Momto5RN]

continue to work on paying down debt
make a commitment to making sure i put myself and my health before some other stuff
would like to get in a family vacation for a few days to beach or busch gardens - butthat may have to wait until i see what happens with tax time - if we owe that will probably not happen.

hopefully lose some wt - maybe 15 lbs would be good .

[Sassyclass]

I don't make resolutions but I do set personal goals all through the year. I think giving myself a whole year for a resolution makes it too easy to put it off and then not get done. Now making a goal for say this month or by the end of March works so much better for me. They are really the same thing but I give myself a shorter time frame to keep the motivation going.

Cat

[Syn D]

I have never made a resolution.... Years of seeing people get truly depressed when they fail was enough for me to not do them....

[madhen]

I did make five this year, and I put them in my blog. They are:

1. I will accomplish, each day, more things that make me proud, in thought and deed, than things that do not.

2. I will maintain my physical, mental, and emotional health, and I will do what I can to improve all three.

3. I will make more opportunities to demonstrate to my family that they are an important part of my life.

4. I will embrace order in my home and my workplace.

5. I will maintain my finances with my ultimate goal in mind: to retire in ten years without concern about whether I will be able to afford it.

[Jamielane]

I don't really have resolutions. Just A list of goals.

1. Build up a stockpile
2. Save money
3. Buy a newer car
4. Read 75 books
5. Finish Quilt for my bed
6. Pray and read my bible more
7. Get organized
8. declutter and donate items

Thats it for now. I am sure there will more as I think about it throughout the next couple of days.

[Libby]

Not a resolution but rather a lifestyle or mentality change: be more positive and help those that truly need it, not those that 'say' they want it.

Just try to be happier & healthier both mentally and physically.

[thesightofoneself]

lose weight and gain muscule

[frugalfranny]

I think giving myself a whole year for a resolution makes it too easy to put it off and then not get done.

Cat

Boy........I do agree with that!!

I don't make 'resolutions'......they sound so absolute and I have learned that 'life' can get in the way......

I make suggestions (to self) and incremental goals.....and all made with "some" flexibility allowed.

[piney]

I don't make resolutions any more failed to many times.I try setting goals sometimes fail at them but do better then when i was making resolutions.
1 goal is to study bible more
2 try sewin again
3 pay more on cc card bill
4 stock pile more
5 have as few spend days a month as i can
6 stick to my budget
7 not waste food or anything
8 stick to menue planning
9 learn to chroche
10 finish up some projects i have had started for a long time
11 save for christmas

[mopples]

I didn't really set any resolutions, moreso a continuation of personal goals I had already set:

* Continue to loose the cm. I have lost 10cm off my tummy since the start of September and want to loose another 10cm.
* Get on top of my personal debt.
* Get through the next 2.5 semesters of uni.

What I achieve this year will set me up for the following year and so on into my now 5 year plan.

[Momto5RN]

mine are goals too- i change them monthly when i need to but they are really just basic plans in reality - of what i hoep to acheieve - i dont get getting depressed if you dont make them by the end of the year if thats happening they are possibly setting goals/ resolutions they cant or arent ready to try to obtain .

[Luckybustert]

I don't make resolutions because I find I tend not to keep them. I do much better at having an ongoing list of goals that I reevaluate and update as needed. The Twenty Wishes challenge last year is an example....I had a list of 20 things I wanted to do and I accomplished several but not all of them. And even though I didn't accomplish all of them I feel like I was very successful in reaching some of my goals last year and am looking forward to reaching more of them this year.

[chevy_chick95]

mine are goals too- i change them monthly when i need to but they are really just basic plans in reality - of what i hoep to acheieve - i dont get getting depressed if you dont make them by the end of the year if thats happening they are possibly setting goals/ resolutions they cant or arent ready to try to obtain .

This is what I was going to say. I join a whole bunch of challenges here at FV. Set a few personal things I want to work on but if I fail.. I fail. There is no success without failure.

[wwe11]

1. pay off as much debt as possible.
2. learn to make homemade things.