I normally don’t make resolutions but I need to:
Be nicer to myself.
Hold a job for more than a month, so I can:
Pay off my debts and maybe get a car
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Me too! I’m going all the way quitting alcohol, weed and kratom.
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Welcome Joshua.
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Happy New Year to you.
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Same! I made a post about the same a week or two ago. Midnight here - officially sober and came here to reset my timer!
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I want to go on vacations this year, cycling. Doing it not only planning it. @Mno 
I need to join the activities that are set up in my house for community building. I have to go downstairs and join them.
Not moving this year is on the top of my list. 
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How’s your first day coming along @Jeaton?
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Cut back on caffeine, I think I may be over doing it with coffee.
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Today is day 18 sober and 3 months and 19 days without smoking my resolution this year is to do things that will make myself smile and be happy. Life is hard enough and doing little things to make myself smile makes the beginning process of being sober that much easier 
Happy SOBER New Year my friends
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Okay I decided on a resolution.
Stretching!!! Every day. I can do it while watching tv and even if I don’t do my Physio exercises (which I still PLAN to do) stretching should help with pain and mobility.
Gotta take better care of this old lady body.
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I find monthly resolutions are far more attainable and fun, knock the months off and you’ll do the whole year. I’ve done that the last couple of years and knocked each resolution off the list.
Like anything break it down into smaller chunks. After January if you’re not liking it or it’s negatively affecting you, you can call it a solid month earned. Don’t want to be getting to May resenting that diet, especially people like us don’t!
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New Year’s resolutions for me is to stay sober and also to try lose weight and I’m starting with a personal trainer tomorrow to try start the year as I mean to go on please god 
hopefully a happy healthy year
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I adore stretching and it really helps!!! Plus…feels so good!! Go you!!
Here we go! Happy new year folks! London is a little gloomy and rainy but yumm I can smell a great year ahead 362 days to go. New years Resolution is to get in the best shape mentally and physically as well as making some investments here and there. First things first every morning is to keep putting myself in check, sober is better. Alcohol is a drug and should be illegal, cocaine even worst. None of it is real happiness it is fake. I even took shrooms recently which helped me understand that it’s my subconscious that likes these substances not even my conscious self, proving to me that alcohol and drugs are in control just like my subconscious but that is not my actual consciousness, once we all understand that our silly subconscious has these desires and not our conscious self, it’s easier to get rid of these bad habits. Just admitting we are not in control and letting that be, and guess what that makes you strong and stronger than you think actually saying and teaching the subconscious you are wrong and you are dangerous to my well being, eventually it will learn and will be one with your conscious. Honestly, I feel good, I could be better and I will! Health is everything and so is family. Don’t let anything else get to you. It’s all superficial, we gotta look after ourselves and others. No matter what. Love you all from my whole heart! I wish you a successful year in sobriety and everything else will fall into place, positive energy! Let’s gooo!
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Hi everyone and anyone who reads happy new year 
I haven’t made any new year resolutions but a small goal I have is to prioritize rest because I spent most of 2022 stressed out and this was before I started this journey in recovery which as of the 5th I’ll have 5 month’s and I’m so pleased with myself and I say that lightly because I’m going through this not punishing myself for being an addict. Each day I’ve woken up throughout these 5 months I’m just glad I’m not hungover and sick and I try my best to appreciate and thank God for letting me see this side of recovery even when I’m frustrated or feeling like a failure due to my finances which I’m taking heed to better and I’m hopeful I’ll have more time with my nana and my family in general because I landed a job with a good schedule and just more time with my small goal to get better rest. 
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You make sobriety sound so good!
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I’m just thankful to see recovery ,and to come this far, I’m doing my best to not give up on myself!
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As the end of 2023 is approaching I want to revivid and bounce this thread again.
A shoutout to all who posted in 2022! I hope you are doing well 
I would like to invite you taking an inventory what happened to last year’s resolutions for 2023. If you like, post about it. Sometimes a retrospect can be very helpful before setting up new resolutions and/goals. Of course feel welcome if you didn’t share here last year!
I would also like to invite to post your resolutions for 2024 if you have some. Or think about setting goals for the new year.
For some of us christmas and the end of the year are difficult times. I hope this thread can also help a bit on focussing on yourself. Because you and your decisions matter.
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Thanks for bumping. This has been heavy on my mind lately.
This time of year was never my favorite. Its busy, everyone is stressed and the commercialization of everything angers me but lately I do love a new year. Not the actual party, 10 years of bartending and my alcoholism killed that but I love the new intention.
Even as a Catholic I was bad at giving things up for Lent so I quickly realized those resolutions don’t work for me. So a few years back I started setting intentions for the year.
2023’s intention was to live in my body. I spend a lot of time thinking and stuck in my head.
How did I do? I quit smoking cigarettes (!!!) and I started paying more attention to my food appetites. I was a girl who didn’t eat in front of her boyfriends when I was younger. One boyfriend I lived with, gosh I was hungry.
This has led to some unregulated binge-ish eating days but it is stabilizing. I eat when I’m hungry, sometimes a lot, and often things that I want to eat. My tummy has a tidge bit more cushion right now but that is stabilizing too.
I started last year working out quite a bit too so I could add that back in this coming year. I also started exploring some of my hangups with sex but that needs more work.
All in all, I was pretty successful.
2024’s intention is to get out of debt. I owe $22,000 to student loans and then I am completely financially debt free. If I pay $1500 per month for 14 months I will be debt free by my birthday in Feb. 2025. That is a large portion of my monthly take home so it will hurt a bit but once I make it a part of my lifestyle I will have an extra $1500 to allocate wherever I want in 2025.
Debt free also means emotionally debt free to me. Like most addicts my sense of self worth isn’t great so getting out of debt also means giving up any ideas that there are things that are wrong with me. I am just me. Good/bad/weird/sane/normal and goofy. Just me. And happy to be here.
Thank you for bumping this. I really needed to get this out.
Good luck on your fast @erntedank. That sounds like a lovely and restorative tradition. Seasons peace to all. 
Edited to say that I just scrolled up and found last years intention written out earlier in the thread. I sounded much more perky but the intention was the same as I said. Grateful for another year of trying to grow.
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I gotta think about my 2024 intention…
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Writing it out helped me but the idea was fermenting for weeks.
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