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I have, incredibly, held firm to a resolution I made many years ago: never make another new year's resolution. It's better to have a CI approach IMO. Continuou

by anonu 4y ago

I have, incredibly, held firm to a resolution I made many years ago: never make another new year's resolution. It's better to have a CI approach IMO. Continuous Improvement. There's nothing special about January 1. If you want to do something start now.

brookst 4y ago
I’m with you, but some people prefer major releases that they can emotionally prepare for. I’ve also been told it helps avoid procrastination, like any deadline can.
- dymk 4y ago
  It just enables procrastination until the next Jan 1st
iinnPP 4y ago
That was my resolution until this year. It's a great one to have. I still started early, but it was influenced by the time of year. Still waiting for tomorrow to arrive.
dolores_tyrion 4y ago
for me it feels like i need some kind of closure, the CI you suggest for me is hard, when i take a new year resolution, it feels like kind of starting on a clean slate, f*k all the mistake i made and start fresh, and i was able to do some progress year by year (but very small), i was thinking of making a resolution every year on my birth day, but it feels like a lonely activity, but in new years resolution, i feel like its a communal thing, like ,yay :) lot of people taking resolution and i'm doing one as well, if i fail then i convince my self ,saying, meh i will add it to next year, but i add list of things in my resolution, and finish some, all it comes down to me for is , clean slate , forgive myself if i miss some goals, and i start fresh because its New Year and it means you can start fresh ;-)
vasco 4y ago
I'm the same, instead I always take around 2 weeks vacation at the end of the year and do a full year retrospective instead of creating goals (doesn't take 2 weeks but being off work helps).
stinos 4y ago
2nd. Waiting for one day a year and (usually even only) then make a resolution for the next year to me sounds like 'maybe could use more self-reflection and/or realistic view'. Self-reflection with the intent of figuring out the reason for needing that one day in the first place (maybe it wold be fun to just pick another day from now on?), but also to figure out whether one is not just being untrue to oneself. For example are you perhaps afraid of making resolutions and then just pick the day of which you know it's common for others to do so as well, making it less bad when you fail at the resolution, because the others more often that not (mind you this is just from purely anecdotal evidence of people around me) also fail? Wouldn't it be better and then just make no resolutions at all? Could be a win on the self-knowledge front? And then from that perhaps shift to making well thought-out resolutions for yourself, whenever is the most appropriate or perhaps even spread over longer periods of time (e.g. start with 'try to achive x' but then don't be too stubborn to halfway decide x sucks, or maybe y is better, or a modified version of x is better, etc.).

by anonu 4y ago

brookst 4y ago

I’m with you, but some people prefer major releases that they can emotionally prepare for. I’ve also been told it helps avoid procrastination, like any deadline can.

dymk 4y ago
It just enables procrastination until the next Jan 1st

iinnPP 4y ago

That was my resolution until this year. It's a great one to have. I still started early, but it was influenced by the time of year. Still waiting for tomorrow to arrive.

dolores_tyrion 4y ago

for me it feels like i need some kind of closure, the CI you suggest for me is hard, when i take a new year resolution, it feels like kind of starting on a clean slate, f*k all the mistake i made and start fresh, and i was able to do some progress year by year (but very small), i was thinking of making a resolution every year on my birth day, but it feels like a lonely activity, but in new years resolution, i feel like its a communal thing, like ,yay :) lot of people taking resolution and i'm doing one as well, if i fail then i convince my self ,saying, meh i will add it to next year, but i add list of things in my resolution, and finish some, all it comes down to me for is , clean slate , forgive myself if i miss some goals, and i start fresh because its New Year and it means you can start fresh ;-)

vasco 4y ago

I'm the same, instead I always take around 2 weeks vacation at the end of the year and do a full year retrospective instead of creating goals (doesn't take 2 weeks but being off work helps).

stinos 4y ago

2nd. Waiting for one day a year and (usually even only) then make a resolution for the next year to me sounds like 'maybe could use more self-reflection and/or realistic view'. Self-reflection with the intent of figuring out the reason for needing that one day in the first place (maybe it wold be fun to just pick another day from now on?), but also to figure out whether one is not just being untrue to oneself. For example are you perhaps afraid of making resolutions and then just pick the day of which you know it's common for others to do so as well, making it less bad when you fail at the resolution, because the others more often that not (mind you this is just from purely anecdotal evidence of people around me) also fail? Wouldn't it be better and then just make no resolutions at all? Could be a win on the self-knowledge front? And then from that perhaps shift to making well thought-out resolutions for yourself, whenever is the most appropriate or perhaps even spread over longer periods of time (e.g. start with 'try to achive x' but then don't be too stubborn to halfway decide x sucks, or maybe y is better, or a modified version of x is better, etc.).