I'm going to quit smoking cigarettes
Exercise more often
Cut out junk food
Read more books
and I'm going to be more financially responsible and I also don't plan on getting blackout drunk for the entire year.

What are your resolutions?

What is the point in waiting for a new year to sort your life out? Just get on with it. New year resolutions are fucking stupid.

What is the point in waiting for a new year to sort your life out? Just get on with it. New year resolutions are fucking stupid.

You're fucking stupid. Next caller, please.

My only New Years Resolution:

Moar bacon sandwiches.

You're fucking stupid. Next caller, please.

Get over it, sweetheart.

They are stupid. Learn to deal with people not agreeing with you.

Every second thread in SG lately has been about "new years resolutions" we only needed one.

I'm going to quit smoking cigarettes
Exercise more often
Cut out junk food
Read more books
and I'm going to be more financially responsible and I also don't plan on getting blackout drunk for the entire year.

you will never achieve any of those if you keep them like that, that goes for everyone who sets resolutions.

resolutions are fucking bullshit, what people need is a detailed plan, written down on paper. Just "exercise more often" won't cut it.

"I will exercise every day between 6:30 am and 8:00 am and will have the body of a fucking greek god by the 1st of June 2009" is a whole different story.

Why am i exercising? What's in it for me? Because i want a super-fit body and i want hot chicks to instantly wet themselves when they see me.
By what time do i want that body? By 1st of June 2009.
How will i get that body? By exercising from 6:30 am to 8:00 am, every day.

The next step is making the schedule more specific. What days am i gonna do cardio on? am i gonna go to the gym or work out at home? gym weights or bodyweight? that sort of thing.

And you absolutely gotta COMMIT. Set an image to inspire you - motivation isn't enough. Visualise yourself fucking those hot chicks who wouldn't even look at you in your fat fucking slob shape you're in right now. Get all the details crystal clear, see your ripped abs moving as you fuck them, see your massive hands grabbing their tits, feel your stamina as you go on fucking them for hours at a time, feel their hands massaging your pecs, feel the difference between their fluffy light fragile little bodies and your strong, manly, sculpted physique. If that doesn't make you want to go pump some iron, i don't know what will.

Make the visualisation as powerful as you can, if you'd like to impress your friends with your strength, visualise totally owning them at armwrestling, mould the visualisation to your conditions. All you gotta do is dream, man! Dream and your motivation and self-confidence and sense of purpose will skyrocket. Don't just settle for a mere wish. A wish is nothing - it's saying "I'd love to have that, but i'm too lazy to go get it". It just flies away, it doesn't impress you enough.

same with everything else.

"Read more books" won't cut it. How much is "more"? 1 book? 10 books? If you Photoread, 100 books per year is pretty sub-standard.

Why do i want to read more books? What's in it for me? Because i wanna get smarter and improve my vocabulary. I don't wanna sound like a slow-brained moron when i'm trying to get a point across.
What books should i read and why? I should read some cookbooks so that i won't fucking starve when i move out of my parent's house and mommy won't be there to cook for me. I should read some books about management so that i can handle my own business. I should read literature to learn more words and express myself incredibly well.

Imagine going up to a girl you want to have some fun with, and you open your mouth and all that comes out is "uhmmmm, uhhhhhhhhh, you know, like, uhhhhh". That's fucking pathetic and you don't want any of that. Select some titles that you know might help you. Read collections of jokes, you know why chicks love guys who can tell them jokes? because their female friends are about as funny as leukemia, they just say something stupid and obvious and giggle at it like mules. Again, make the visualisation of your mental capacity as vivid and as inspiring as you can, see yourself owning all the wanna-be smartasses that stand in your way and impressing everyone with how smart you are. If you work to get smart, you deserve to be respected.

"I'm going to be more financially responsible" - close, but still a bit fuzzy. What's financial responsability to you? is it saving more of what you earn than you did before, or is it avoiding the blowing of all the cash on useless shit constantly?

Why do i want to be financially responsible? Because i want to manage money more efficiently and not need my parents to wipe my ass every time i want to buy something.
How will i do this? I will commit to save 10% of everything i earn and not use those savings for ANYTHING besides extremely serious situations (which doesn't include buying smokes, booze or drugs) by 1st of September 2009.

I don't think i need to tell you about the visualisation you should have here... let your fantasy run wild - house, car, clothes, technology... anything that gets you really really pumped up.

See, resolutions are shit, but goals are solid. It's essential you WRITE THEM DOWN AND READ THEM OFTEN so that they get fixed in your brain and you don't forget about them by the 5th of January. Always put deadlines on the motherfuckers, always ask yourself "What's in it for me if i do this?" and decide HOW you will do it.

Happy New Year to everybody and i hope you come up with a nice set of goals for yourselves. Remember that your results will be in direct proportion with your effort, so get cracking. What you give is what you get. ;)

If you think working to achieve goals is hard, wait till you see how hard it is to be overweight, stupid and broke.

"I will exercise every day between 6:30 am and 8:00 am and will have the body of a fucking greek god by the 1st of June 2009"

That's my birthday :D.

New Years resolutions are all the same shit. Cliched as hell. So I can't be bothered to make them.

New Years resolutions are all the same shit. Cliched as hell. So I can't be bothered to make them.

Because it is 'cliched' is the worst reason ever for not doing something.
New Years is supposed to be a time for new beginnings, time to change the bad things in your life.
Do you not celebrate Christmas or your birthday because it is cliche? :rolleyes:

Moar bacon sandwiches.

This. And Im going to drink more.

Mine is to stop drinking soft drink. Inspired by two friends. I mean afterall what benefits are there? Except for a sugar high, which is accompanied by a lathargic low.

H20 FTW

None because I always fail to accomplish them if I make a list of something. I'd rather let things happen by themselves when I want them to.

I need to get me a fucking G.E.D.


Also more sex, more drugs and more rock and roll.

If you're one of those people who needs to wait for a new year on the calendar to try to get your shit together, than don't even waste your time with New Years resolutions.