New Year~~2008

[Nichole]

:wave:HELLO! :wave:

Since 2008 is creeping up on us, I thought it would be a good idea to share new year's resolutions!!!! So..........I will start!!!!!

1.) More prayer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :crosseo:
2.) Read the Bible daily--complete in one year.
3.) Continue exercise and lose 40 pounds by August (I would to love to drop 60 by then, but trying to be attainable--is 5 pounds a month reasonable?!)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:P
4.) FIND A JOB (and hope I love it and that they are military friendly, etc., etc.)! ^_^

[fuerein]

I don't really do New Years resolutions (I personally never have seen the big deal with New Year's Day myself, it's just a date change ;) ). But I am currently trying to, or about to start, a list similar to your four.

1 and 2, same here.
3 for me is more like eat better and eat less (living alone and eating right is a hard, whenever I'm with others I eat alot less just because you don't have a big pot of food staring just at you and you actually have to split the food).
4, well, I want a new job. What kind of job? I wish I knew.

[Orthosdoxa]

I want to lose 50 lbs by September. I started trying in October, and lost 11 pounds pretty quickly, but since then I've been regaining and relosing the same 2 or 3. I need to find an elliptical at Goodwill or something. It's hard to get out to exercise, with these two babies.

[Natalia.V]

1. Be baptised and chrismated into the Orthodox church.
2. Read my Bible everyday; finish it in one year.
3. Be more Christ-like.
4. Find a new job.
5. Get my driver's license.

[-Kyriaki-]

1. To do well in my course, if I get in
2. To try not to get too sick this year :P
3. To get baptised, though that's not really up to me ;)
4. To finish one of my big cross stitch pieces

[gzt]

1. Battle cosmic evil.
2. Seek justice.
3. Maybe finish my review of Russian literature.

[AJB4]

In no order:

1) To do more songwriting
2) To attend a Divine Liturgy (small steps yeah? :P)
3) Live performance of my compositions may be on the cards
4) To improve my physical appearance and people-skills at the same time.
5) To continue teaching myself guitar
6) To get a job
7) To do well at school and have a great final year of high school.
8) Studying music at university thereafter.
9) Singing lessons at high school.
10) Continue my drum lessons at high school.
11) To go to the BALL with someone this year. :P
12) To improve my spiritual awareness yada yada yada (LOL, just kidding - this IS important, I know). :D

[Dorothea]

Just save up money to try and buy a house late spring. Exercise a bit more. :)

[Saint Melania]

I need to lose 30 lbs. When I was sick earlier in the year, I did lose 10 lbs., but gained them back again when I got sick again, and didn't lose my appetite that time. :(

I would be happy with 25 lbs. lost. ^_^

[Khaleas]

* More church, actually some prayer... ahem... I stink.
* Regular exercise, want to lose 20 lbs (which is what I've gained since I moved to the US)
* Better eating habits, esp smaller portions
* Read more, less time online
* Finish my big piece of embroidery
* Learn to use my new sewing/embroidery machine well
* Make a set of Deacon's vestments
* Declutter and deep clean the house (and keep it that way)
* Try to be kinder to people

[Tsarina]

To increase my prayer and to keep a better watch over myself in order to guard my senses. :)

[SeekingTheLight]

1. To read the entire Bible in a year. (I've never actually done this) (Shame, shame, shame).

2. To get my novel trilogy completely edited and polished. (I despise editing)!

3. To practice playing my autoharp everyday. (I go in spurts, and you can tell when I haven't been practicing).

And (of course) I really hope that my husband and I can convert by the end of next year...that would be wonderful!!

4.

[Mikeb85]

1. Find a new church (There's an Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox, and Coptic Church within a reasonable distance from me)

2. Convert to Orthodox Christianity

3. Try to live a better life/stay out of trouble

4. Try to get my career back on track

5. Get back into the gym, exercise more

[Philothei]

oh well... hmm new year's resolutions...

I would just call them the New Year's plans.... always with God's help ...

1. finish a medical procedure that I have been posponing now for some time....
2. loose 25 pounds (even 20 would be great :))
3. Sew my skirts and daughter's jumpers...
4. Read at least one book per month...including several books from the Bible...
5. Try to find a publisher for my book
6. Pray more ... spending time on line less....
7. Find a spiritual fahter closer to me
8. Doing good things for people and nag less...
9. Spend less and save more....
10. Appriciate more and get mad less....
11. Be more enthusiastic and less judgmental...
12. Let go and let God...
13. Let go of anger and smile more....:)


God bless,
Philothei

[Akathist]

1. I have joined a 12 week weight loss challenge here: http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/groups_individual.asp?gid=15820 (http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/groups_individual.asp?gid=15820) I want to complete three challenges this year.

That site is free and offers a great way to track calories and nutrients in their food logs as well as tons of exercise and nutrition advice.

This is the first time I have joined a challenge there but I think it might motivate me to stick with something for more then a couple weeks.

I have set very realistic goals because I get too frustrated when I set goals too high and I give up.

2. So, my 2008 goal is to lost 10% of my current weight, then 10% of that weight then 10% of that weight.

3. But more then weight loss, I want to exercise and increase my general fitness. I want to be able to walk on the treadmill for 60 minutes 5 days a week at 3 miles an hour (outside of warm up and cool down). And, I want to have moved to the "Intermediate" work out level in the strength training work out I have had approved by my Chiropractor.

4. The other goal is to start competing in the shooting sports. I want to get in the top 50% as a score. (But I hope this goal is too low and I will need to adjust it.)

5. I want to make one or more friends that I can hang out with and go shopping or have lunch, etc.

6. I want to improve on my work performance especially in my paperwork, getting things done faster and being more organized.

7. Read at least three books related to my faith this year not counting the Lent and Advent devotionals which I want to finish reading in 2008. (I start to read them but forget after a bit and don't finish them.)

8. And lastly, to organize and declutter my home. I want all of my closets cleaned out and my garage organized and no more storage boxes in the room where my treadmill is.

[Nichole]

Oh...........I need to add onto mine! To try really hard to obey fasting days in 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dorothea]

A few other things....

Continue to grow in Christ and be dedicated to my family and my church. To finish reading the OT!

[Andrew21091]

My resolutions:

1. To grow in Christ.
2. Get through the rest of the school year with good grades.
3. Read the Bible more.
4. Learn to say my evening prayers in Slavonic.
5. Read more.

[Khaleas]

And a little refresher for the new year... :P

[Monica, child of God]

1) Commit to the Jordanville prayer book instead of hopping around all the prayerbooks and horologions I have collected.

2) Commit to the Old Calendar if I am indeed switching parishes. It is tempting to keep one foot in the New Calendar but in the end that is probably not going to work.

3) Lose 35 pounds by my birthday in April. I am doing Diet-to-Go. It is pretty good so far but I need to stop snacking on holiday chocolate :p

4) Exercise 3 days per week

5) Be better about keeping up with family and friends.

But the most important things that I want to happen I have little control over; I can only pray.

1) See my son baptized

2) Get him into a better situation for his learning disabilities.

M.

[Khaleas]

1) Commit to the Jordanville prayer book instead of hopping around all the prayerbooks and horologions I have collected.

2) Commit to the Old Calendar if I am indeed switching parishes. It is tempting to keep one foot in the New Calendar but in the end that is probably not going to work.

3) Lose 35 pounds by my birthday in April. I am doing Diet-to-Go. It is pretty good so far but I need to stop snacking on holiday chocolate :p

4) Exercise 3 days per week

5) Be better about keeping up with family and friends.

But the most important things that I want to happen I have little control over; I can only pray.

1) See my son baptized

2) Get him into a better situation for his learning disabilities.

M.
Monica, how do you like Diet to Go? I'm thinking about it... I was debating about NutriSystem but everyone says it looks like dogfood and I'm really visual about things so I don't think I'd eat it.
Although, I guess I should just make the effort of trying to cook too LOL...

[Protoevangel]

Get serious about prayer (morning, meals, evening).
Get serious about reading the Bible again (The Explanation of the New Testament by Blessed Theophylact are on order).
Get serious about spiritual reading (lives of the Saints, etc).

[seashale76]

1) Be more diligent in my daily prayers
2) Catch up on my reading
3) Eat more healthily
4) I want to run a 5k this year
5) Got Rosetta Stone and am looking forward to learning the basics of various languages and seriously brushing up on my Spanish
6) Learn to crochet
7) Declutter my house and delude myself into thinking that we could make the cover of Metropolitan Home one day

[Monica, child of God]

I like Diet-To-Go. I have been doing the vegetarian plan and there are always a few dairy free options for fast days which was a concern. There have been a couple of selections that were not my favorite but over all, it's good. The only problem so far is that during the holidays, there is still lots of extra food around and it is hard not to nibble all day. Once I get disciplined and get the goodies out of the house, I hope to see the weight start coming off.

M.

[AxionEsti]

Cutting out sweets is a great start for a diet.

[Chocolatesa]

Lol, I've only made one, to use my treadmill at least half an hour per day, I probably should make others though lol.

[Nichole]

HEY............how is everyone's New Year's resolutions/wishes/hopes/dreams/aspirations/etc. going? So far so good here :clap: (except for finding a job.........:( )!!!!!!!!!!!! :P

[Khaleas]

Now with hubs gone I can eat a lot better... I got the panels up on the wall so I can finally set up my permanent icon corner. I've started cleaning a lot so that's moving along... and I'm starting this weekend with a good set of church... Vigil, Divine Liturgy, Vigil and Divine Liturgy again... Hopefully that will give me some traction again...
I've been working out at least 4 days a week... I need to up it to 5 at least.
I kinda cruise around and look at the walls for a few days after hubs leaves...
Haven't touched the sewing machine as I want to clean out the office properly before then.

[Nichole]

Now with hubs gone I can eat a lot better... I got the panels up on the wall so I can finally set up my permanent icon corner. I've started cleaning a lot so that's moving along... and I'm starting this weekend with a good set of church... Vigil, Divine Liturgy, Vigil and Divine Liturgy again... Hopefully that will give me some traction again...
I've been working out at least 4 days a week... I need to up it to 5 at least.
I kinda cruise around and look at the walls for a few days after hubs leaves...
Haven't touched the sewing machine as I want to clean out the office properly before then.
WOOT :clap: Good job Jen! How long is hubby gone for? Yes, it is hard with the work out issue. I have gotten into the routine of going Monday-Friday for 40 minutes to an hour a day. This way I can have weekends off. ^_^ If not Mon-Fri.......then throw a weekend day to make 5 days. I've also gotten into the bad habit of STAYING UP LATE and SLEEPING IN LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( Anyway..............good job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[StrawberryShortcake2]

My goals for Year 2008

1. Save money
2. Maintain a healthy weight
3. Read more often
4. Be the best person I can be

[Khaleas]

So how is it going for everyone?

:P

[Khaleas]

*More church, actually some prayer... ahem... I stink. - Good start, then I got a terrible cold, attempting to pray
* Regular exercise, want to lose 20 lbs (which is what I've gained since I moved to the US) - same as above (well, minus the pray part but that might help)
* Better eating habits, esp smaller portions - that I'm doing good at, probably because hubs is gone
* Read more, less time online - I'm reading but also hanging out online
* Finish my big piece of embroidery - I've set it up at least
* Learn to use my new sewing/embroidery machine well - not started
* Make a set of Deacon's vestments - see above
* Declutter and deep clean the house (and keep it that way) - making great headway
* Try to be kinder to people - we fall, we get up, we fall, we get up, someone beats us with a bat, we deserve it, we get up, we fall... :sigh: but I haven't been crabby going to the store or post office if I had to wait ridiculously long.

[rusmeister]

Resolutions usually wind up being just wish lists, promises that we aren't going to keep. Unless we identify what we really intend to commit to, and keep to with gritted teeth, no matter what, it's not likely to become reality.

[Khaleas]

Resolutions usually wind up being just wish lists, promises that we aren't going to keep. Unless we identify what we really intend to commit to, and keep to with gritted teeth, no matter what, it's not likely to become reality.
Man, you optimist... :P

Mine are more like the reminder list I write each day, just for the year... works well for my ADD each day, maybe it will work for the year too... plus there is a few days left of it too :D