Anybody up for New Year Resolutions?
let it grow!
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: USA
Posts: 15,540
Anybody up for New Year Resolutions?
they don't have to be big ...
i made one, so i will go first.
i will buy an acordian folder (if santa doesn't bring me one - i DID hint, ha!) and i will organize my recipes. i have them thrown all over in a drawer, and it takes forever to find one.
so that's my new year's resolution.
NEXT!
i made one, so i will go first.
i will buy an acordian folder (if santa doesn't bring me one - i DID hint, ha!) and i will organize my recipes. i have them thrown all over in a drawer, and it takes forever to find one.
so that's my new year's resolution.
NEXT!
bona fido dog-lover
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: SF Bay area, CA
Posts: 99,760
My resolution is to be kinder to myself. I'm horrible about beating myself up for anything, small or large, and of not being able to forgive myself for things I've done in the past.
The one thing I've never been able to forgive myself for is giving up my little dog thirty years ago. I made the mistake of looking back after I brought him to the shelter and have never been able to forget his look of despair and fear. I now have two dogs I love more than anything and take good care of. But I want God to erase that memory that makes me hate myself. AFter thirty years I can't forget it or forgive myself for giving him up.
Please God I will try to be kinder to myself if you will just PLEASE get that image out of my head.
I was a young nervous new mother and couldn't handle having a dog. But I still beat myself up over it. I love my dogs and spoil them rotten but cannot get that picture out of my head.
The one thing I've never been able to forgive myself for is giving up my little dog thirty years ago. I made the mistake of looking back after I brought him to the shelter and have never been able to forget his look of despair and fear. I now have two dogs I love more than anything and take good care of. But I want God to erase that memory that makes me hate myself. AFter thirty years I can't forget it or forgive myself for giving him up.
Please God I will try to be kinder to myself if you will just PLEASE get that image out of my head.
I was a young nervous new mother and couldn't handle having a dog. But I still beat myself up over it. I love my dogs and spoil them rotten but cannot get that picture out of my head.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Upstate New York
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Oh, alright....one big & one small. The big one is the same as Least's. Be kinder to myself, because I've wasted years of my life on regret and remorse. It's one of the main reasons I've relapsed so often. Time to start appreciating what we have today, before it's gone.
The small one - similar to k's - go through all the tons of photos & old papers and get rid of the stuff that's of no use.
Actually, I could take my resolutions from the past 20 yrs. and recycle them: Lose 20 lbs., stop drinking, contact old friends I keep avoiding, get out of debt, yada, yada, yada. Thanks k!
The small one - similar to k's - go through all the tons of photos & old papers and get rid of the stuff that's of no use.
Actually, I could take my resolutions from the past 20 yrs. and recycle them: Lose 20 lbs., stop drinking, contact old friends I keep avoiding, get out of debt, yada, yada, yada. Thanks k!
Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Hicktown, PA
Posts: 1,479
My New Year's Resolution is to embrace life - to fully come out of the tiny, insular, self-absorbed world that drinking kept me in for so long and live to my full potential!
And organize my garage! *LOL* I think I have a better chance with the bigger one!
Thanks K!
And organize my garage! *LOL* I think I have a better chance with the bigger one!
Thanks K!
letting God take the wheel...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Home is where the heart is-Colorado and Oregon
Posts: 100
my resolution besides staying sober is to let go of the past also..I cant beat myself up and perseverate on the same things all the time...the past is in the past I cant change it..i cant handle the sickening feeling I get when I dwell either..please God help me to move on
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 211,380
Originally Posted by Jomey 
D - Can you find sheet music for Barry Manilow songs and play them on the accordian for me???? If so, I will def. send K the $10 to start the fund! LOL
and thanks for the nice gesture K!
I could play Weird Al polkas then
that'd be somethin'
:bounce
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where the light is
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 2,763
Over the past year, I stumbled upon the secret to a happy life!
Be good to other people - quit focusing on my needs alone.
Live in the moment - let go of the guilt from the past and fear of the future.
I still struggle with fear of the future (getting better) and will keep working on acceptance and faith that everything will be okay.
Be good to other people - quit focusing on my needs alone.
Live in the moment - let go of the guilt from the past and fear of the future.
I still struggle with fear of the future (getting better
) and will keep working on acceptance and faith that everything will be okay.
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I'm just a little unwell
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: USA
Posts: 2,219
What a great thread! I love reading what everyone has posted. Keep 'em coming!
I need to start being good to myself again, but I need to figure myself out before I can do that. I've lost so much of who I am and what I was in the last year... it's discouraging. There are pieces of me that I miss and really want to get back.
I'm not sure how all that translates into a resolution... so I'll just say I'm going to work on healing myself, and maybe the smaller things will fall into place as I do that.
(And I REALLY need to get back in my gym habit! I DO miss that one very much.)
I need to start being good to myself again, but I need to figure myself out before I can do that. I've lost so much of who I am and what I was in the last year... it's discouraging. There are pieces of me that I miss and really want to get back.
I'm not sure how all that translates into a resolution... so I'll just say I'm going to work on healing myself, and maybe the smaller things will fall into place as I do that.
(And I REALLY need to get back in my gym habit! I DO miss that one very much.)
Helping Others, Helps Me
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: North Dakota
Posts: 481
I know this is really cliche, but I really want to lose 50lbs and start to get my muscles back again. This is important to me because I feel great when I am done exercising, have more energy, and plain and simple want to live longer.
Second one is to improve my self confidence. With two months sober, I already find myself checking myself out in the mirror telling myself how great I am, and I have not done this in years, especially since my alcoholism hit full blower. My ex was very good at reminding me how much of a piece of sh*t and a loser I was when I would slip. I don't let her do that anymore....
Second one is to improve my self confidence. With two months sober, I already find myself checking myself out in the mirror telling myself how great I am, and I have not done this in years, especially since my alcoholism hit full blower. My ex was very good at reminding me how much of a piece of sh*t and a loser I was when I would slip. I don't let her do that anymore....
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 43
My resolutions are: 1. Simple, stay sober, go to meetings, reach out! 2. Print out all my pictures and get back to scrapbooking again! 3. Find a community church that I can take my girls to. (this one was last years that I didn't complete, probably because I was always hungover on Sundays).
Helping Others, Helps Me
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: North Dakota
Posts: 481
Yeah, some of the things we did as practicing alcoholics make me chuckle now. We were pretty smart and tricky people when it came to our drinking and drugging....
It feels good to use that intelligence towards something positive
It feels good to use that intelligence towards something positive
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