New Week's Resolution - Week 3

nossmf
nossmf Posts: 11,527 Member
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Welcome to the first week of the rest of your life! Now seems like a perfect time to select a New Week's Resolution.

What is a New Week's Resolution? It's exactly the same as a New Year's Resolution, with two important distinctions: it only lasts for one week, and you can start one any time you want, rather than just once per year.

So what's wrong with New Year's Resolutions? According to some quick Google research, just one thing: they DON'T WORK!
  • 23% of people quit within the first week
  • 43% quit by the end of January
  • 80% quit by mid-February
  • 92% fail to make it a full year
Why such high rates of failure? Probably because most resolutions fail to follow these simple steps from the SMART method:
  • Specific - "exercise more" is vague; "hit the gym twice this week" is specific
  • Measurable - did I go twice? Yes or no?
  • Achievable - "drink a gallon of water per day" may not be realistic; drink 8oz is
  • Relevant - if it doesn't matter to YOU, why bother?
  • Time-bound - keep your goal for this week something quick you can reach THIS week
With these thoughts in mind, what is ONE thing you want to do this week? Some examples may include:
  • Hit the gym two times this week
  • Cook a meal from scratch three times this week
  • Go to bed no later than 10pm every night
  • Limit myself to one alcoholic beverage this week
  • Finish two pages of my family photo album
...and so on. While this is very similar in nature to the famous "Just Give Me 10 Days" series, that challenge focuses primarily on weight loss and diet control, whereas this challenge is of a broader nature, including interpersonal relationships, home improvements, health and fitness and more. Just pick something specific you wish to focus upon, set a number goal you can reach (or not), and make status updates to document your progress. This will be a judgment-free zone: if you do not reach your goal, take the time to figure out why not (too big a goal, life happened, etc), and forgive yourself, because you can always try again next week.

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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,527 Member
    Getting setup for next week. My plan is to continue what I started in previous weeks, and add one more focus item every week as I go. Eventually older items will drop off the list, not because I no longer want to do them, but hopefully they will have become so ingrained a part of my daily routine that I no longer need to record them to make sure they get done.

    Past focus items:
    Floss every night before bed
    Clean litter box every night before bed

    New focus item:
    Get at least six hours of sleep every night - I'm guilty of getting less sleep than ideal during the work week, some nights as low as 4-5 hours of sleep! While getting eight hours of sleep each night would be ideal, my early-morning wakeup times would mean going to bed by 8pm each night to do that, which I'm not ready to do on a regular basis. But bed by 10pm to get 6 hours, that I already do on occasion. Maybe adding this to my New Week's Resolution list will help make it an all-the-time thing.
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 1,651 Member
    edited November 3
    Wk1 Sleep on time, wk2 up on time. Wk3 adding 20 min movement to morning routine before shower.
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 1,651 Member
    edited November 4
    Check
    Hope you're feeling better soonest @nossmf
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,237 Member
    Continuing art/etsy work 30 min + on weekdays, but going to work on courses 30 min this week instead of 1 hour.

    I'm going to take 30 min. Per day, this week, to study up on local politics and govt. I was sad to realize I knew absolutely nothing about most the people that I had the opportunity to vote for..
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 1,651 Member
    edited November 5


    Nods, similar here.
    Overwhelmed with political onslaught on a few things and dearth of the rest. I will be glad when the onslaugt recedes... exposure is something i limit due to the overwhelming negative polar opposites - and hope we can get past it and back to a collaborative centrist approach... a person can hope...

    Check today.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,527 Member
    Floss - check!
    Litter - check!
    6 hrs - check! (though should probably add an asterisk, as it would've been 5h 45m if I hadn't slept through my alarm this morning...)
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,527 Member
    Tuesday night...

    Floss - check!
    Litter - check!
    6 hrs - check!
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 1,651 Member
    Check
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,527 Member
    Wednesday night...

    Floss - check!
    Litter - check!
    6 hrs - check!
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 1,651 Member
    Ck ck ck
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,237 Member
    ✔️✔️✔️ for this week! 8 hours of art, linkedin courses, and brushed up on my local govt as painful as that was!🤣
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 1,651 Member
    Chks
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,527 Member
    Thursday night...

    Floss - check!
    Litter - check!
    6 hrs - check!
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,527 Member
    Friday night...

    Floss - check!
    Litter - check!
    6 hrs - check!
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 1,651 Member
    Ck
  • Adventurista
    Adventurista Posts: 1,651 Member
    Chk
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,527 Member
    Saturday night...

    Floss - check!
    Litter - check!
    6 hrs - check!
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,527 Member
    Sunday night...

    Floss - check!
    Litter - check!
    6 hrs - check!

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