I do my New Year’s Resolutions at the start of April. When the financial year begins. This is when the party truly kicks off!
It also gives me 3 extra months to think of my resolutions. I have still left it to the last minute, though, obviously.
Here are this year’s resolutions/some of last year’s rolled over.
2020 Resolution #1: Run 240 miles. I thought this might have been feasible at the start of lockdown last year. I was running a mile or so every day during my lunch break and was on for the best year of running ever! Each year I’ve tried to increase this number of miles, and each year I have failed. This is partly because I am not built to be a runner. I know people may say this but my body doesn’t physically want me to run. My left foot goes numb after about 15-20 minutes of running and I just really can’t do any more. This is getting dropped as a resolution. It just isn’t helpful to me.
2020 Resolution #2: Paint all my Blood Bowl models. This was unrealistic because the running joke in the Blood Bowl community is that no-one ever achieves this. I managed to paint 1 team and have made up a number of others ready for painting. Our house is currently in a state of disarray due to redecorating that has prevented me from doing any more recently but I will keep this as a resolution as I’ve been learning to paint a bit better, aided by advice from some friends and I’d like to be able to do it better and more. It’s quite a nice relaxing, creative, mindful thing to do.
2020 Resolution #3: Learn to juggle for 5 minutes. I’ve not timed myself but I can juggle quite well now. Blog and proof on this coming soon.
2020 Resolution #4: Practice singing for 1 hour a week. I was doing well and was having online lessons weekly until around last September/October time when I was diagnosed with acid reflux which has been giving me a lot of throat pains making it difficult to sing. I did manage to be part of this recording before that happened, though.
There are my new resolutions. There’s 5 which is a world record.
2021 Resolution #1: Complete painting 2 more Blood Bowl teams. In preparation for being allowed to play in real life again. 2 seems like a realistic number in a year.
2021 Resolution #2: Relax more. I don’t relax enough. I’m always trying to be busy and productive. My wife tells me this all the time and she is right.
2021 Resolution #3: Get well enough to start singing again. I was really enjoying singing when I was doing it. I have definitely improved since taking lessons and practicing, and I want to get back into it again. I will try to put aside some time to test out my voice/throat soon.
2021 Resolution #4: Read 20 books. This can tie in with Resolution 2. When I was commuting I was reading maybe a book a week on average. This calendar year I have only read 1 so far (but I blame George RR Martin for writing ridiculously long books).
2021 Resolution #5: Write in this blog at least once a month. I enjoy writing. Partly for the exercise itself, partly for the memories, partly to get things out of my brain, partly to share stuff I love. It has fallen by the wayside a bit. I’ve been wanting to write up about the first year of being a parent during a panedmic. This is currently 3 months late. Part of the issue is that when I’ve had the time and inclination to write a blog, I’ve written one for my company (I’ve done 7 this year). This helps me longer term in promoting my business and being able to direct clients to blogs rather than explaining the same thing in emails to different clients, but it doesn’t let me get my me stuff out.