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    What is your new resoultion for 2014

    This is a usual question and yet it is interesting to know about each other's aspirations and dreams for life cannot go without dreams. Yest dreams are many and our realities restrict us to fulfill only some of them and of course I have a resolution to experience something different, unusual through books, through my interactions with some people or through travels of exotic places. I am planning to travel enormously and the lands I have in mind are not cities that depict a kind of uniformity and monotony and I want to visit villages, mountains and planes where old civilizations are still alive and people live in a different eon.

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    My resolution was going to be to meet one of my boyfriends, but they're all fictional so I would just be setting myself up for failure.
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    Faith, You need to realize how awesome you are! You need to start saying, "I'm fabulous until you fake it!"

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    To realise how awesome I am. (it's challenging)

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    My resolution is to not obsess over my weight and appearance. Kind of the opposite of the "get back in the gym" resolution most people typically have. I was hospitalized for bulimia recently. Bulimia is a nice bit of icing for my rotten cake of ill health which consists also of epilepsy, type 2 diabetes and chronic social anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder and a speech impediment, though the last one has been remedied by a herculean effort using acting and singing to overcome a stutter and tourettes.

    I also resolve to move somewhere by the end of the year, be it the prairies or back east I don't care.
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    I don't really like resolutions cause I never keep them. I am just going to continue on the path I am and keep scheduling every step. My son made a resolution though, he is gonna work on his math, he hates math so I think it's a really good resolution for a seven year old.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy88 View Post
    My resolution is to not obsess over my weight and appearance. Kind of the opposite of the "get back in the gym" resolution most people typically have. I was hospitalized for bulimia recently. Bulimia is a nice bit of icing for my rotten cake of ill health which consists also of epilepsy, type 2 diabetes and chronic social anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder and a speech impediment, though the last one has been remedied by a herculean effort using acting and singing to overcome a stutter and tourettes.

    I also resolve to move somewhere by the end of the year, be it the prairies or back east I don't care.
    Jeez, that is a lot to be faced with. I read recently that reframing anxiety as excitement can sometimes be helpful.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Helga View Post
    I don't really like resolutions cause I never keep them. I am just going to continue on the path I am and keep scheduling every step. My son made a resolution though, he is gonna work on his math, he hates math so I think it's a really good resolution for a seven year old.
    Good luck to your son! Such a little charmer. I dislike math, too. There is a beauty to it, I know, but the understanding of it has always eluded me, so I (nowadays) cordially dislike it.

    I agree wholeheartedly with the whole no resolution bit.
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    I want to

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    my resolution is not to have one. It is the best I can think of right now.
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    I have several this year:

    - Learn to drive
    - Get a new job
    - Stop swearing (already broken this one)
    - Drink less (highly unlikely I will achieve this)
    - Lose the Christmas weight
    - Find a boyfriend

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckthorn View Post
    I have several this year:

    - Learn to drive
    - Get a new job
    - Stop swearing (already broken this one)
    - Drink less (highly unlikely I will achieve this)
    - Lose the Christmas weight
    - Find a boyfriend
    so many. which do you think is the easiest?
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Quote Originally Posted by cacian View Post
    so many. which do you think is the easiest?
    I think learning to drive (my mother already paid for the 1st few lessons), getting a new job (I have declared that I have until March 26th to achieve this or I will quit and open a vegan shop) and losing the Christmas weight (I lost 14lb in the 5 weeks before Christmas so I can certainly lose the 18lb I gained over Christmas)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckthorn View Post
    I think learning to drive (my mother already paid for the 1st few lessons), getting a new job (I have declared that I have until March 26th to achieve this or I will quit and open a vegan shop) and losing the Christmas weight (I lost 14lb in the 5 weeks before Christmas so I can certainly lose the 18lb I gained over Christmas)
    what is a casual olympian if I may ask?
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Quote Originally Posted by cacian View Post
    what is a casual olympian if I may ask?
    Of course :-) . During the 2008 Olympics, Thomas Deakin released a range of T-shirts with "Casual Olympian" on (I think its meant to mean someone who does a lot of exercise for fun - I have 2 of these T-Shirts). I do large amounts of swimming (for example on Monday before work I swam 4 kilometres and this morning before work I did 3.5) so I used it as my title/description

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