Any new years resolutions?

Tammyjane33
Tammyjane33 Online Community Member Posts: 755 Pioneering
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I have a few, I'm not one to usually do new year resolutions but I want next year 2022 to be different and better for me and everyone. 
I want to learn to love myself more and put what I need /want into practice.
I want to find myself and what makes me happy instead of just concentrating on everything and everyone else around me and letting myself suffer. So love to you all and please stay safe. ❤️🙏

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  • oldngrumpy
    oldngrumpy Scope Member Posts: 237 Empowering
    Yoga and stretch everyday
  • bg844
    bg844 Online Community Member Posts: 3,928 Championing
    I've got one.
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,458 Championing
    Nope, never have and never will.
  • Tammyjane33
    Tammyjane33 Online Community Member Posts: 755 Pioneering
    No worries, I've never been a one to make new year resolutions up until this year.
    Everyones different. Hope everyone has an amazing  healthy and happy new year 
  • Ookpik
    Ookpik Online Community Member Posts: 110 Empowering
    My resolution is ."Not To Lie" oops,l just lied right there.
  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,892 Online Community Programme Lead
    My daughter and I have been discussing resolutions a lot lately and earlier today she showed me two articles about why setting New Year's resolutions (even if you don't end up keeping to them) is thought to be beneficial. 

    To poorly summarise: setting resolutions gives you an opportunity to reflect on where you are now and steps you need to take to achieve any goals, which is a great thing for anyone to do. They provide a sense of hope and optimism and the act of making them and taking efforts to achieve them will likely have a positive impact, too.
    I haven't fact-checked the claims and they weren't peer-reviewed papers, but I can see the logic behind the suggestions and it gave us both some food for thought.
    Username_removed said:
    Could someone find me an article somewhere - anywhere - about someone who made a meaningful New Years resolution and achieved it. 
    I suppose that might depend on what you class as 'meaningful'! ;)
  • MarkM88
    MarkM88 Online Community Member Posts: 3,119 Connected
    edited January 2022
    I may not always set a full blown resolution but I try to do something different that I want to do on a regular basis. 

    Last year I’d set myself the goal of keeping a journal as I’d wanted to do so for a long time, I wanted to be able to reflect and have the opportunity to go back and it was a good way to manage my mental health. 

    Did I stick to it? Yes I actually did, I wrote a few sentences  each day, I also had a monthly recap, and also recorded any further goals for the future. This helped me enormously and I now have a record for the last 12 months. 

    Did I find it helpfioful? Absolutely I did, I needed somewhere to get things onto paper and a chance to review day to day and look back. Last year was the best year I had in terms of mental health and managing symptoms. 

    Recommend it? I do, but it was a commitment having to do this each day and then also doing the monthly recap. So it’s dependant on each person. 

    There are absolutely people that would have set resolutions and met them of course there are, but I doubt an article was written on each person to share with others. 

    YouGov research also suggests some people do set them and stick to them, although a small amount - https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2020/12/30/new-years-resolutions-2020-and-2021
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    My new years resolution when my father died was to stop smoking I went cold turkey and stopped  without the cutting down that was 13years ago and I haven't smoked since 
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    My nyr is to not come on the forum as much and not to reply to any posts other than general discussions 

    There are others with more knowledge and no point putting my two pennies in 

    This will be now one of few posts I respond to 

    I want to find a new challenge for myself maybe writing or study 

    Happy new year to you all and stag safe 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    New year resolution have been round for years you either do it or you don't its no big thing bit of fun if anything does it matter Mike why people do it 
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,213 Championing
    I think your New Year's resolution is rather a shame @janer1967 - I also know there are people with far more experience than I on the forum, yet I post as there're not always about, or posting to someone else in the meanwhile. The number of times I've posted at just about the same time as Poppy I know have been numerous, or Mike, who often adds extra info too, & there are others..... However, imagine being a newcomer to the forum, & if a couple or more people are saying something similar, then does that not give more credence as to what is being said?
    Also you have years of experience with HR, so again a shame not to use it. If you are hoping to spend more time doing something different, I understand, & that's fine, but, as someone who has helped contribute positively on the forum, I hope the reasons you've given above are not why.
    Wishing you, & everyone here a Happy New Year. :)
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    Mike your comment is a direct comment saying that it's not a motivation makeing new year resolutions  it doesn't realy matter why people make them they do for whatever reason 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    I wasn't targeting you it was because of what your comment said 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    As you know Mike things can be read differently the way you put your comment makes it look like it is wrong but now you have explained it that is more understandable when I said people do it for a laugh I wasn't referring to everyone  my friends new year resolution was to stand on her head for ten mins lol 

    I made my resolution because my father died from cancer caused by smoking I probably stuck to it because death scares me lol 


  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    @janer1967 sorry to hear that but sometimes we have to hang back a bit but you are realy good with work issues I always leave it to to you now I do enough of it off the forum lol I know we have had our ups and downs but I have alot of respect for you 

    Happy new year to you and your son 

    Take care 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    I think we all have goals for ourself I have reached my final goal to have a house with a sea view and have silver furnishings with glass and crushed dimond tables and fire place etc I am where I want be in life I am happy and I am settled even though I look after my mum 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    Thank you Mike 😊 from the age of 18 I have always had it in my head what I wanted and always said my life goals will end when I am where I want to be in my life and I am now anything else in my life will be a bonus 
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