To ask what your new year’s resolutions are for 2019?

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2018 has been a really tough year for me for various different reasons, so I’m looking forward to leaving it all behind and starting a shiny new year. My resolutions to hopefully improve my life for 2019 are:

1. Finish TOMM bootcamp and start following the method for 45 mins on a Monday to Friday basis (having weekends off - woop!) I’m beyond sick of getting so behind on housework that I have to panic-clean whenever guests come round. Having to live in a constantly dirty and dusty house has also affected my mental health this year.

2. Stop drinking four days a week (Monday to Thursday wherever possible). I think this is the single-most important thing I can do to improve my health and boost my productivity at work.

3. Start living a far more frugal lifestyle. I’ve racked up an enormous credit card bill this month and the vast majority of it has gone on crap I didn’t need, eating out and takeaways. I’d like to be far more mindful of what I’m spending, stop wasting money on stuff I don’t need and maybe even save up for a holiday.

What are your new year’s resolutions?

Read 50 books - will be 45 this year so a bit less mindless mumsnetting should make 50 possible

Do yoga at least once a week

Do park run at least once a month

Run a 10k

Go for at least one bike ride with the local women’s cycling club I’ve been following on FB all year

I should probably include some work related ones like ‘increase my network’ but can’t think of any I really care about.

Start my business once and for all so I can...

Leave my current profession

Stop eating cereal

Get up really early

Go to bed at 11 at latest and stay there

To continue my 5 day a week gym habit.

To learn Spanish once and for all!

To get into gardening

1. Carry on being alcohol free. I gave up drinking more than a year ago and have seen benefits I'd like to keep (NB I wasn't alcohol dependent so this is less of an achievement than it may seem!)

1. Boost my savings back up. They took a bit of a hammering over Nov/Dec.

1. Eat better. This is the biggie. So I'm going for a concrete plan of always eating breakfast and 10 fruit and veg a day.

1. Reduce time spent on facebook - I have deleted the app and intend to not look at it at all in January.
2. Eat 5 portions of fruit and veg a day and gradually lose the baby weight (ds4 is 8 weeks old)
3. Drink more water.
4. Read more.
5. Spend quality time with each dc each weekend.
6. Build up some savings and clear cc.
7. Continue developing routines to keep the house organised and tidy ready for returning to work in September. It looks like a lot but they are all small changes which will have a massive impact on my health and happiness.

To actually go to sleep at night, I've been in bed for 6 hours and haven't been to sleep yet.

There are some great ones here. It’s got me really looking forward to January 1st!

Read 75 books
Run 2000 miles (and along the way a sub 1.40 half marathon)
Eat my 5 a day (I achieve this so infrequently it’s appalling)
Less beer!
Use my free time better; I spend hours on here/instagram a day
Be a bit more careful with money, no more coffees/cans of pop every time I leave the house.
Drink less Diet Coke (maybe weekends only?)

Stop drinking coffee at home (I’ve ended up drinking vats of it in the last year to combat sleep deprivation and it just makes me feel worse!) DD2 is mostly sleeping through the night
now so I’m only going to have a coffee on the rare occasions I’m out for lunch/meeting a friend etc.

Lose the 2 stone I’m accumulated since having the DC.

Start some freelance work to ease me back into the working world.

Have one thing each month to look forward to - I’ve booked a comedy gig and a night out with an old friend in January and for February I’ve reserved a table in a fancy shmancy restaurant I’ve been dying to try. Going to sit down tonight and plan more outings for the other months. I’m excited!

Punch people who annoy me.

I've never done it but i think it would be very cathartic. No explanations, just biff.

thigh I imagine it would be very satisfying indeed!

In truth the same as always:

Lose weight
Stop smoking
Declutter
Stop procrastinating

Pernickity just imagine

"my children are perfect" biff
"can I go ahead of you in the queue?" Biff
"oh i thought your older sister was your younger sister" biff

I would walk away smiling.

Start yoga.
See the Foofighters live (still haven't got tickets)
Eat less meat.
Move on from current friendship problem.that has been dragging me down for a while.

DH and I were discussing new year resolutions last night and how everyone always has a variation of the same eat better/lose weight/less phone time/less caffeine/save money/drink less.

Those kind of things are quite difficult to do in an abstract way as they focus on a feeling that you’ve missed out (e.g. that chocolate biscuit and coffee you’d fancied).

What we’ve decided to do instead is focus on small fun positive changes which should in theory be achievable and will also improve our family’s quality of life generally. So:

1. Do something “active” as a family every weekend - could be a bike ride or swimming or walk in nearby national trust gardens.

1. Use national trust membership at least once a month - we are generally good during the summer but tend to slack off a bit during winter months.

3.Cook two new recipes a month. Can be anything from an easy peasy soup recipe to a really complicated dish

1. Watch one film together every week (this is just DH and I) rather than crash out in front of mindless tv whilst simultaneously dealing with work emails/online shopping/scrolling through twitter.

Finally, on a slightly different note, I switched the kitchen radio from its permanent radio 4 setting to radio 3 a couple of weeks ago and am really enjoying it! Nice to have breakfast without a background of doom and gloom news!

Clear small debt
Stop being pushed into doing things I don't want to do.

This year I resolved to do things - get out and about and meet people etc which was more fun.

So next year my resolution is to get well, get back into running and find some running buddies in South London to run with. Anyone interested? Ideally pick up a sub 2.15 half marathon on the way although that might now be pushing it.

To stop caring so much what others think of me and to learn to like myself more. Strongly linked to spending less time on Facebook!

To embrace my relationship with my DF who drives me up the wall, and not let him irritate me as much.

To have a low-stress year.

To floss my teeth more.

1. Read 70 books (managed 65 this year)

1. Volunteer more

1. Visit 3 new countries (it was 5 this year but I’ll hopefully have less time to travel because of the next resolution)

1. Take the next step in my academic career

I'm going to aim to read 40 books.
10,000 steps daily.
Cycle once a week, and try and go swimming regularly.

• Do a bullet journal properly
• Find a job I can enjoy
• Have proper major decluter of my house

I would probably benefit of adding loosing some weight to the list but I know it just won’t work.

Mine is to moan less! I have a 9 month old who doesn’t sleep very well (but definitely isn’t the worst) and I feel all I do is talk about how tired I am. I mean I AM so tired but this is just a permanent state now so need to stop banging on about it.

Start reading again.

And obviously lose weight - standard

Master both a headstand and handstand. Get BMI to 20ish rather than 20ish.