#62

(Continue to) read more books written by women than men. Done it for the past two years, after a lifetime of the complete opposite.

Do some kind of volunteering (never done any before. Found a site where you can select from different options, so I’ve just put myself forward for some food bank parcel packing one morning a week. Just waiting to see if they’ll accept me)

Try and be a bit more vegan (for environmental reasons mainly. Have already cut back, and am already veggie, so I don’t have a particular goal in mind, but find full-on vegan too hard at the moment).

And I guess I should do some kind of exercise, seeing as I WFH all the time and need more excuses to go outside. Maybe I need to create some kind of spreadsheet to log my exercise in an attempt to actually do some…

#63

Move to the country
Eat a lot of peaches

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#64

Make more threads

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#65

Keep reading books, but don’t worry about how many because I have some monstrously long ones I want to read. Read at least one Octavia Butler book because I somehow haven’t yet.

Try leave the house at least once a week.

Do everything I can to get R his EHCP and autism diagnosis so I can get him into a school where he is supported properly and hopefully not miserable.

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#66

Get up to 90kg bench press and 25kg dumbbells

#67

Spend less time on my phone so I can make time for more edifying activities like reading and watching films. Continue with my exercise regime which started a month or so ago and currently involves running at least 5k every other day. Eat less meat and unhealthy foods (maybe saving these til the weekend). Have more ‘dry days’. Maybe also time to have another break from smoking weed which would probably help achieve several of the above. Continue setting aside time to make music which along with the exercise is a good habit I’ve picked back up during lockdown.

More of a stop start continue list really. Feels good to recognise things I’m doing which I’m actually pleased about IMO.

#68

Worrying about number of books read is me too, find myself always checking how long a book is and worrying that it’ll take too long to read or I could have read two books in the time this one took.

My big resolution is to try to rest and enjoy stuff more. As above I say I love to read but I’ll be very self-flagellating if I haven’t read a certain number of books a year etc, which is silly. Want to just enjoy stuff without needing it to be about productivity.

However I love setting goals! This year they’re more like remembering to plant things in Feb to enjoy over summer, or to be brave enough to try knitting a garment instead of endless patches.

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#69

For reading could do for something more like a time-based goal, like you’ll try to read on at least X days a week, or for Y minutes a day (depending on what is realistic and enjoyable for you)

I think that is actually what I said last year though I can’t remember what exactly it was. And then of course I went and set a number goal on a goodreads challenge anyway, which I made wuite easily but only with rhe help of a bunch of graphic novels read in a sitting or two.

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#70

Do one (1) press up

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#71

Given how this years gone I’m going to resolve to be resilient and just, you know, survive with all the good stuff intact.

Also I want to get a song played on the radio. Even just once.

#72

Gotta do loads of physio, like actually do the exercises they give rather than just periodically pay them money to beat me up. I want to have a relatively pain-free daily existence by the end of 2021

#73

I’ll do it for free :muscle: :fist_right:

:wink:

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#74

Got to save some money now.

Done the following ten point plan:

  • Set up card payment round-ups on my online banking.
  • Turned Plum back on.
  • Set up a monthly standing order for a batch of premium bonds.
  • Worked out exactly what I need to save per week to get £3k off the mortgage ISA and set up a standing order.
  • Been through my direct debits and cancelled any I can.
  • Closed my betting accounts.
  • Going to do a weekly big shop and stop wasting money on junk food for lunch.
  • No booze.
  • Cleared the garage so I can rent it out.
  • Dug out the old whisky jar for shrapnel.

Worked out that 41% of my wages go on shite, which is disgusting really. Going to aim to bank half that. Need to make sure I’ve got something to fall back on worst case scenario (illness, unemployment, etc).

#75

Get the kids apocalypse wasteland ready.
Making shanks, foraging for mechanical parts, gladiator skills (should any of us be imprisoned and forced to fight for our lives in the abandoned Poole Speedway stadium), Amazon drone evading, arts and crafts.

#76

I’d really like to learn how to sing in 2021 but no idea how to go about it or if that’s even a thing

#77

You can take vocal lessons like you can learn any other instrument.

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#78

I reckon you can get better at singing with lessons but probably can’t go from not being able to sing to being able to sing. If that makes sense.

#79

Hmm can I sing though? Who knows!

#80

read more
Euripides

#81

this is not quite true

I mean, if you can’t hear pitch properly that’s one thing that lessons wont help much with but if it’s a case of not being able to reach or sustain notes because of poorly trained breathing or diaphragm control - or having always sung from the throat/nasal cavity rather than the diaphragm then lessons absolutely can go from ‘not being able to sing to being able to sing’