I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions as such, but every year when I write my Retrospective post, I write down what I think are manageable goals for the following year. I think exercise and healthier eating are on them every year, and I feel like I’m sort of just kidding myself with how seriously I tend to take that one, which is probably the most important one that’s always on my list. My weight has at least been hovering around the same place for nearly the whole last year and since I am still under the weight I was at my heaviest by a decent amount and have managed to keep myself diabetes-free for 3 years I’ll take it as, if not a win, a Pyrrhic victory of sorts, anyway. <\/p>\n
That’s not to say there isn’t vast room for improvement in that area. There is. It’s on my mind all the time, actually. I am rather better about eating healthier most of the time, but have been much worse about exercise since I had my gall bladder out, for a couple of reasons that I’m not going to go into now. But I am trying to find ways to get better about both all the time. They are both such a struggle though, and they consume far too much of my mental guilt space. <\/p>\n
I finished my blog book for 2019 today and sent it to print. Only 6 days into the new year! I have the formatting down to a science and am the speediest cutter-and-paster on the planet. One of my (oft-repeated) goals for 2019 was to be more regular about posting here and I finally managed to do it. My 2018 blog book was only 114 pages, and 2017’s was only longer by a couple more. But for 2019, it is 156 pages; a substantial jump (despite the fact that I had only 1 post in November). <\/p>\n
I thought I’d look back and see what my track record has been for my manageable goals. I’ve been writing retrospective posts at the end of every year since 2007. My first list of manageable goals, which was for 2008, was<\/p>\n
I only managed to fulfill one of those completely but it wasn’t until many, many years later in 2015 that it actually happened (visiting Prague). The other two have proven elusive.<\/p>\n
These have been my goals every year since and my success rate, minus the ones that repeat every year about walking more, losing weight, eating healthier, etc.:<\/p>\n
I know this is of little interest to anyone but myself, but I find it kind of motivating and a good way to encourage some of the “bigger” things that I want to accomplish during the year, without managing to scare myself off with the term “resolution”. And I also think it’s just fine to put something on the list again for the next year if I didn’t manage to make it happen during the year that passed.<\/p>\n
Now to get serious again about those elusive weight loss, exercise and eating healthier goals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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