Like to Post New Year Resolutions?

[digitS']

Happy New Year, Everyone!

Maybe I should resolve not to make resolutions ... too late for that! I have been on here too many times complaining about myself! "Last Year," I complained about having kept saved seed too long and about forgetting to save new seed. Those are just improving my record keeping - long and short term.

Short term, I can just use TEG as a note to myself! Hopefully, that won't be too tedious for others seeing me do that. Hopefully, it will fit with what other gardeners are saying about what they are doing, and need to do. Ya know, TEG has a very good search function! Just writing it down helps the memory and a couple keywords with your name and ... bingo! We are right back where we first had some idea at the beginning of the season!

A kind of vague resolution is not to slack up on performance. I'd rather do less and have less in the garden than be overwhelmed by tasks not done! I started to really look at things last year and try to see if I have started to cut too many corners. It won't be fun to look at the garden late in the season and be disappointed ... I'm planning on being kind to myself ... and avoid that .

Steve

 

[so lucky]

Well, following through on my projects would be a good resolution for me. I always get great ideas, and an initial burst of inspiration and energy, but it soon starts to bore me, and gets to be just one more unfinished chore. Then I think of some other great project, and let the unfinished ones pile up.
If I could keep my mind on the first project, it wouldn't have enough time to think of other projects.

 

[thistlebloom]

What So Lucky said. I am sometimes surprised to come upon a half finished project that I have put away "for later" and thought "Oh, what a great idea that was, I'll have to finish this up....sometime..." and tuck it back into it's hiding place.

My yard projects aren't as easily concealed and harder to explain to curious family members who don't have the same finished project vision that I do.

 

[ninnymary]

This coming Monday my husband and I are going to start The Fast Metabolism Diet. It's a pretty interesting book and the diet is for 4 weeks. The whole premise of the book is that we have to get our metabolism to be high in order to burn fat and not muscle. People usually can lose weight but not the fat. We'll see.

Mary

 

[seedcorn]

This coming Monday my husband and I are going to start The Fast Metabolism Diet. It's a pretty interesting book and the diet is for 4 weeks. The whole premise of the book is that we have to get our metabolism to be high in order to burn fat and not muscle. People usually can lose weight but not the fat. We'll see.

Mary

Keep in loop as I have some body fat that I wish wasn't.

 

[Smart Red]

I don't do resolutions for the new year. I haven't done since before I retired. Any day is just as good as another for starting something new. There is something about a New Year's resolution that makes it harder to keep than goals set throughout the year.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

My resolution is the same as last year's -

to make a New Year's resolution next year.

It's about the only resolution that I do end up accomplishing.

 

[Wishin']

There is something about a New Year's resolution that makes it harder to keep than goals set throughout the year.

Very true

 

[journey11]

I don't usually do resolutions, but am to the breaking point with the clutter in this house (especially kids' playroom), so thinning out the junk and getting organized is my big one for this year. I've got several organizing hacks from Pinterest that I have or am planning to employ. Some for DH's garage too.

Also, going to try to set myself and the kids to a much more rigid routine and make good sleep a priority. This past year since kid#2 became able to really get around has really aged me. Missed naps take years off of my life.

 

[Jared77]

Goals for 2015.....Clean the basement, build shelves in the basement, organize the basement.

Clean the garage, organize the garage (already built shelves but can't get to them very well).

Plant the asparagus bed I tilled, and mulched last fall. Want to re-till it & plant it this year because I know it needs time to produce. Tilling it again isn't critical but it would be nice.

As it is Im going to be down to the wire to get the new play structure up in time and the veggie garden planted this year with baby #3 due in May.

I'm not stressing about it, and yes the play structure is my top priority, then plantings. No wonder the garage and basement are a mess.