(I’m being all self-referential and shit).
I’m still not a fan of new year’s resolutions, but I am still a fan of taking stock and making goals. I’ve also discovered that making a pact with myself to do something concrete (don’t eat junk food) is much more successful than some vague idea (lose weight). I also have the attention span of a coked up hummingbird, so I need to keep things simple and smallish.
(You say setting the bar low, I say realistic and achievable).
So, this is what I’m hoping to accomplish in the New Year:
Limit screen time after 9:30pm
I am breaking this one to write this very blog post. FAIL. But that’s why I went ahead and put that old hedge-word chestnut “limit.” WINNING?
I have this horrible tendency to zone out in front of my laptop, or my iPad, or the TV when I know I’m tired but it’s just too early to go to bed. And then I go down a google hole or I get engrossed in something stupid. And, all of a sudden, Kristian is asking me why it’s 11pm and I haven’t gone to bed yet. Whoops.
I put an app on my iPhone that reminds you to go to bed. I don’t need to go to sleep at 9:30pm, I just need to put the screens away (they can mess with your circadian rhythm and make it harder to fall asleep). Bonus points if I do something productive, like pack a lunch or lay out my clothes for the next day. Or floss. But, really, I’m totally fine with reading the New Yorker in bed.
Reply to all of my blog comments
I feel like an asshole, because I got stupid busy this year and basically stopped replying to people. I resurrected the WordPress app on my iPhone. Hopefully, that makes this one fairly easy to stick with.
Run a sub-30 minute 5k
This one could be tough. I think my fastest 5k was 31 or 32 minutes? I’m kinda slow. And by “kinda,” I mean “very.” But I’m going to focus on running fast instead of far, at least for the beginning part of this year. I will also have more options after I start my new job for when I can go running.
So, those are my goals for this year. Which means it’s my cue to put the laptop away and take a nice, hot shower and read the New Yorker.
Do you have any goals or resolutions for this year? If you leave a comment and let me know what they are, I promise I will reply to you!
