Your new year resolutions

[mrsrabbit33]

Ok it's a bit early but I just wondered. I'm a bugger for making New Year's resolutions. I've only stuck to one from last year. However I still live in hope because I genuinely still feel like there's something special and new about a brand new year and it's the perfect time to think about making positive changes.

So far mine are:

Dry January. Never managed it yet but my habits around booze have got a bit out of hand this year so I really want to give it a good go.

More exercise. Self explanatory. I doubt I'll be joining the gym but certainly more walking and home workouts.

Learn to cook. I've never been any good and I've never enjoyed it but I want to try and want to get dc involved too.

Declutter the house. A job I keep putting off and putting off but after Christmas we will have even more shit accumulating so I need a really big sort out.

New year's is a time for changes, but IME it's been more useful to see it as a time to get rid of things, not take things on. So - taking your examples above - from NYD I'd do dry January and declutter, then in Feb/March I'd look to start exercising and learning to cook. I also see my birthday as my own personal new year - it's in summer btw - and do a life audit/make more resolutions then.

Honestly - choose ONE thing and that way you might stick to it.
Do the booze - it sounds as if you should crack that one and it’ll give you lots of time free so you could end up doing loads of other things… I didn’t drink for 6 months and wrote a book which got published 6 months after that, and got a new job I didn’t know I wanted:needed! And got qualified to coach a sport…
Soooooo much energy.

This is actually a great way of looking at it. I think in the past I've set myself up to fail by trying to change too much at once but a month of sorting out and removing things seems so much more achievable.