1. Be able to keep the computer off at least until it cools down completely before turning it on and wasting time again (exceptions would be using it for and only for productive work)
2. When my parents yell at me, instead of tuning them out or yelling back insisting that they’re wrong, I should at least consider what they’re trying to say. Furthermore, actually be able to consider any advice that people give me.
3. No more than one blog post per day unless I start writing for pay per post a few months later (they only want blogs that are at least 3 months old).
4. A full workout twice a week consisting of at least 30 minutes of cardio work and 6 different weight training machines.
5. Read at least two newpaper or magazine articles per day.
6. No more internal explosions caused by idiots who are not worth it anyway. For those of you who don’t know, I often explode internally but try not to act like it when idiots arouse me. After this happens, I’m unable to focus for hours and sometimes inexplicably act strangely.
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Sigh…where’s my motivation? I seem to enjoy things that don’t matter at all but are equally or more tedious than things that mattered. For example, I would rather blog nonsense than work on my college applications that are due like tomorrow. Most of my material is in submittable condition, but I would still like to make everything better.
With my normal New Year’s Resolutions, I make one comprimise after another and eventually end up the way I started. I really think spending too much time on the internet is directly linked to laziness. Since I got addicted to chess-live (do I have to mention that previous rant post again?), I’ve been getting addicted to various time wasters on the internet. Now that I’m not logging on there anymore, it’s getting a little bit better, but I’m still spending a couple hours a day on the internet. That’s really not too bad compared to my average of 6 hours per day a while ago. What I really need is an attitude adjustment, but it probably won’t matter much anymore next year, because college applications will already be done. Senior year is officially over after first semester.
I need to prove this blogthing and myself wrong, which brings me to my final resolution: I need to be able to trust myself and have confidence in my own decisions. Maybe I can’t get anything done, because internally, I always have doubts about myself.
Fine, I’ll let you analyze my resolutions since overanalysis seems to be your specialty.
Response to the first comment
Have you seriously wasted that much time on the internet during these last most crucial days? I still don’t get why I spent so much time on this stupid blog.
Actually my computer takes quite a long time to cool down if you feel the right parts. 20 minutes maybe?
Actually, I put number 3 on here, because I’ve had more than one nonsense wordpress post per day a couple times when I should have been working on my applications. Now that I think about it, it probably won’t matter that much next year. When this blog is 3 months old, I’ll write for pay per post, so I have to make it decent looking first.
As for number 4, I feel like I’m losing muscle mass, and I want to get it back.
Yes, online news articles could count if they’re credible ones, but I never actually read the whole article.
You may not see me blow up, but I’m completely unable to focus when idiots bother me for something that doesn’t matter at all.
So, I guess you think the final resolution is the most important too.
You try to be a good person… well, sometimes you try!