New Year's Resolutions

thomasross20

I envy those of you doing something else for extra cash, e.g. teaching, gigging etc. I'd like to have that bit extra myself!

Here's a genuine one: 
Get to bed at a reasonable hour and get more sleep. 
I'm always up way too late, usually programming drums... and my eyes look black and blue!

TTony

TimmyO said:

3. The big one - become self-employed/get my business off the ground - I was made suddenly unemployed Aug/Sep last year. I decided to try and get my own thing off the ground. The only work I've had since was a couple of months freelance out in Singapore (for a previous employer), but I want to do consultancy and turn it in to a business rather than just contract/freelance as a one man operation. At 45 it's a new direction but one I am committed to trying to make it work. Luckily Mrs yo is also behind it, as I've earned precisely nowt for the last few months! Eek. 

@timmyo - if you need anyone to bounce thoughts, plans, ideas (and worries) off, I went through a similar work-change c15yrs ago, and have both developed (not very successfully) independent businesses, worked through other similar small and new businesses, and done contract work.

I'm surviving.

Snap

SImple one for me: work less, live more. Getting there.

iain.reverb

1. Lose some weight and get generally a bit fitter.2 stone tops (off to look at a gym this afternoon)
  2. Sell this house and buy a new house.
  3. Open another salon with my partner.
  4. Sell the Golf and get a new larger car.
  5. Make a start new business idea I've had for a while
  6. Maybe get a new Labrador to join our current one

Gassage

Fall in love with playing cricket again and stop over indlugence in things I shouldn't indulge in at the age of 52.

stickyfiddle

Make more time for stuff I enjoy doing. I'm not saying "find" time because that never actually happens as a passive thing when work is putting pressure on. I've had a ridiculous year work-wise which has got me brownie points and very little else.

So, more creative stuff. Music, photography and possibly drawing/sketching/design stuff. 

TimmyO

TTony said:

TimmyO said:

3. The big one - become self-employed/get my business off the ground - I was made suddenly unemployed Aug/Sep last year. I decided to try and get my own thing off the ground. The only work I've had since was a couple of months freelance out in Singapore (for a previous employer), but I want to do consultancy and turn it in to a business rather than just contract/freelance as a one man operation. At 45 it's a new direction but one I am committed to trying to make it work. Luckily Mrs yo is also behind it, as I've earned precisely nowt for the last few months! Eek. 

@timmyo - if you need anyone to bounce thoughts, plans, ideas (and worries) off, I went through a similar work-change c15yrs ago, and have both developed (not very successfully) independent businesses, worked through other similar small and new businesses, and done contract work.

I'm surviving.

 @TTony ; That'd be good - I'm prob going to be in town for a few days in the first half of Jan so let me know when you're in? 

d8m

Snap said:

SImple one for me: work less, live more. Getting there.

Yes!

snakemanStoo

snakemanStoo said:

Reach my 40th birthday. 

It's only just into the year so I'm setting the bar very low

Done it.

100% of my resolutions completed.

Go me.

fretmeister

I'd like to be able to run 10K by the end of the year.

That would be great.

BRISTOL86

To make a genuine leap forward in my guitar playing by practicing more and messing about less. 

Have set myself one 'simple' target - to be good enough to play John Mayer's "Neon" (well!) by the end of the year. Probably sounds simple to a lot of people but the big stretches, combined with percussive techniques and muting and all the other stuff means it's well out of my current ability. 

littlethoughts

 fretmeister said:

I'd like to be able to run 10K by the end of the year.

That would be great.

If you are giving yourself a whole year that should be easy - barely 30 metres a day.

Chalky

Stop replying to WTB ads.  Life is simply too short.

Sporky

Several of my abandoned former friends have clearly made their new year resolutions be to get in touch with people they couldn't be arsed getting in touch with for years.

I wouldn't mind, but it's all whiny bullhonky. "There have been some significant changes in my life - can't wait to tell you about them!". Which means, obviously in one case, "My wife got sick of me always trying to stick it in her after a backrub".

I have been misappropriating one of Drew's lines, and telling these people that I now identify as a zeppelin armada, so unless they're in the helium-supply business I'm not overly interested.