[{PHOTON}Mazz1020]

hey i was just thinkin the year is comming to an end i realised that i have to come up with a new goal for teh comming year. The only one i can think of is get my a** of my computer but i don't think i can follow through with that one. Any one have any ideas for me?

[Dakar]

If I resolve to do something, I don't need the year to change for me to start.

[Rolling Bones]

Bury the bodies in my backyard deeper.

[Albert Pujols]

gain atleast 20 pounds. I've gained 4 so far.. yay

[{PHOTON}Mazz1020]

why do you want to gain??



but i need some ideas for me

[vexborg]

To stop smoking!

I'm actually going to have my last smoke tonight - it's way to expensive here in the UK, and I'm starting to develop a cough in the mornings

[besson3c]

I just was at the Bodyworlds 2 exhibit in Toronto, and saw some smoker's lungs. Apparently, smoking 20 cigarettes a day for a year is the equivalent of dumping in a coffee cup full of tar into your lungs. Nasty.

[EnemyTerritoryish]

Are stupid.

[sek929]

It seems shallow to me that people need to wait for an arbitrary day to begin making their lives better.

[RAILhead]

Save for retirement.

[Fred_Cokebottle]

Hang all my clothes after use (i.e. if I plan to wear them again).

[EnemyTerritoryish]

Originally Posted by sek929

It seem shallow to me that people need to wait for an arbitrary day to begin making their lives better.

Indeed.

[jcadam]

drink less.

[Volks]

Originally Posted by RAILhead

Save for retirement.

F!#@ retirement!

I'll take the money now!

[starman]

To not make silly resolutions.

[turtle777]

Post less.



Mwahahahahahahaa.

-t

[demibob]

eat drink and sleep more

[torsoboy]

Originally Posted by sek929

It seems shallow to me that people need to wait for an arbitrary day to begin making their lives better.

Shallow? How in the world could it be shallow? Maybe your word is wrong?

For most goals it is recommended that you sets goal dates to go over how well you are doing and what you need to do to catch up to your goal if you are behind... new years day provides a very good start date, and it also provides many people a chance "start over" so to speak. I think any day that people make goals to improve themselves is a good day.

[sek929]

If it was such a big deal then why wait until January first, why not just start now?

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by demibob

eat drink and sleep more

drink and sleep - but at what ration ?

-t

[Rolling Bones]

Lock the door to my bedroom when Im masturbating. My girlfriend keeps sneaking into the house and catching me.

What are you doing?

Ahh...jus...just, ahh fekk!

[{PHOTON}Mazz1020]

Originally Posted by sek929

It seems shallow to me that people need to wait for an arbitrary day to begin making their lives better.

yea who decided that?

[nredman]

drink less soda pop

[{PHOTON}Mazz1020]

Originally Posted by nredman

drink less soda pop

That impossible for me, i live off MT. Dew and Dr. Pepper

[Cadaver]

Lose weight,
Eat better,
Exercise,
and spend less money on prostitutes.

Oh, and one of the above isn't real.

[{PHOTON}Mazz1020]

Originally Posted by Cadaver

Lose weight,
Eat better,
Exercise,
and spend less money on prostitutes.

Oh, and one of the above isn't real.

The eat better one?

[euchomai]

Originally Posted by {PHOTON}Mazz1020

yea who decided that?

I think it is just an easy way to do it. New Year = New Decisions for life. It does make sense in a very simplistic way.

[{PHOTON}Mazz1020]

then what about the people that celebrate the new year a differet day? should they make resolutions for january 1 or on their respected new years ?

[demibob]

if they want

[Ratm]

^^^ If they want a happy life then I'd say no. We do this to torture ourselves. The only reason I can think of.

[demibob]

Originally Posted by Ratm

^^^ If they want a happy life then I'd say no. We do this to torture ourselves. The only reason I can think of.

or to improve themself

[Ghoser777]

Buy a condo.

[wdlove]

To serve Jesus Christ, follow him.

To do and be the best for my brothers and sisters.

[BlueSky]

Originally Posted by sek929

It seems shallow to me that people need to wait for an arbitrary day to begin making their lives better.

Me too. I'm making it my New Year's Resolution to not be shallow anymore.

[Albert Pujols]

I'm already half past my goal of gaining 20 pounds and it's only the 2nd. This new years resolution thing is way too easy.

[Fred_Cokebottle]

Originally Posted by Albert Pujols

I'm already half past my goal of gaining 20 pounds and it's only the 2nd. This new years resolution thing is way too easy.

Rapid weight gain is asking for trouble dude.

BTW, I have sucessfully started to hang my reuseable clothes! Feels good.

[Albert Pujols]

Originally Posted by Fred_Cokebottle

Rapid weight gain is asking for trouble dude.

BTW, I have sucessfully started to hang my reuseable clothes! Feels good.

I started a couple weeks ago, I'm not trying to be a fatty..

btw.. aren't all clothes reuseable?

[aberdeenwriter]

Originally Posted by sek929

It seems shallow to me that people need to wait for an arbitrary day to begin making their lives better.

I agree. However, I've resigned myself to the idea that it's simply easier to keep track of any changes and remember when you started something or ended something if you do either in January.

Along the line of reasoning of why should one wait for a particular day to do a thing worth doing...

Why wait for Christmas to give gifts and show the people you care for that you do? Or why just one day to remember and to celebrate the life of Jesus?

Why wait for St. Valentine's day to express love for those you do? Or show patriotism on July 4th? Or giving thanks only on Thanksgiving Day? We might ask ourselves, "Have I been especially kind and thoughtful to minorities today or will I just wait until Martin Luther King Day?" (Careful, that's a loaded question! lol)

We just go along with those and other conventions because they are pretty harmless rituals and most folks love rituals of some kind or another. To go along with the New Years resolution ritual is to just accept a decision first made made by others millions of observances ago and if you can use that ritual to help you make a positive change in your life, then it's a good thing, right?

Anyway, for those interested in things they might want to change in the New Year here is a list that's said to have originally created by French Jesuits and eventually copied by hand by a teen-aged George Washington perhaps as a school assignment.

It's a neat list that gave me reason to think about trying to add a few of these to my persona. It feels almost like the little thrill I'd get thinking about getting my old car a new paint job!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=1248919

January 7, 2006

George Washington's Rules of Civility

110 Maxims Helped Shape and Guide America's First President

George Washington first copied out the Rules of Civility as a schoolboy exercise.


“Every action done in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those that are present.”
Rule #1


In the newly published Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace, editor Richard Brookhiser says the maxims are still applicable in our day and age.


“When a man does all he can, though it succeed not well, blame not him that did it.”
Rule # 44


Courtesy Library of Congress
A portion of Washington's manuscript for the Rules of Civility. Many historians point to Washington's extremely neat handwriting as evidence that, as a schoolboy, he had already developed a strong sense of self-discipline.

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
Rule # 110

Weekend Edition - Sunday, May 11, 2003 · As a young schoolboy in Virginia, George Washington took his first steps toward greatness by copying out by hand a list of 110 'Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation.' Based on a 16th-century set of precepts compiled for young gentlemen by Jesuit instructors, the Rules of Civility were one of the earliest and most powerful forces to shape America's first president, says historian Richard Brookhiser.

Most of the rules are concerned with details of etiquette, offering pointers on such issues as how to dress, walk, eat in public and address one's superiors. But in the introduction to the newly published Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace, Brookhiser warns against dismissing the maxims as "mere" etiquette. "The rules address moral issues, but they address them indirectly," Brookhiser writes. "They seek to form the inner man (or boy) by shaping the outer."

Brookhiser says the advice the rules offer, though often outlandish in detail, is still applicable in our day and age: "Maybe they can work on us in our century as the Jesuits intended them to work in theirs -- indirectly -- by putting us in a more ambitious frame of mind."

The Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation

(For ease of reading, punctuation and spelling have been modernized.)

1. Every action done in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those that are present.

2. When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body not usually discovered.

3. Show nothing to your friend that may affright him.

Go to the link for all 110 of the rules/tips/suggested resolutions.

[Athens]

easy solution, toss it out the window from the second or higher floor. Problem solved.