After a few fits and starts, I kept my 2008 resolution to quit smoking in 2008. I made it. 13.5 years quit.

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Originally posted by scratchy:

After a few fits and starts, I kept my 2008 resolution to quit smoking in 2008. I made it. 13.5 years quit.

Good job!

It is a great question. Over the decades ( I am almost 60), the answer is no. However, my youngest child (son, now 20) was diagnosed with mental health issues in August 2019, so I started lifting with him October 14, 2019 (my prescription). We now have 520 lifts together since then. For 2021, my new year resolution was to do the damn leg days with him, without missing too much. I did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Made lots of 'em, and never kept a single one.

Bob

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Originally posted by parabellum:
My experience is, it's the kiss of death. If I say "I'm going to (or not going to) do (whatever)" it's a surefire guarantee that it won't turn out that way.

For the past two decades, my only New Year's Resolution is to not make any resolutions! So far it's worked just fine as I never kept any previous ones!!!

Give me credit, I am danged good at making resolutions. I am about ready to invoke Johnny Carson's famous safeguard to keep things: A HERMETICALLY SEALED MAYONNAISE JAR KEPT ON FUNK & WAGNALLS' PORCH…

Besides, my good intentions have provided a large contribution to finishing paving that road to Hell!

Yes

Silent

Yes--

1) Never again to eat bacon with a fork
2) Never again to use a short (salad) fork for any reason.

I have kept these for many years.

Tim

Most years, I have made and failed my resolutions. But for 2021, I resolved to do leg day more often than not, sticking to it, and I succeeded. My strength is up from where it was, but man my legs and ass hurt many days of 2021!

I don’t bother. One day is the same as another to me. The “new year, “new me” thing is ridiculous IMO.

I finally resolved one year to never make another resolution, and so far, I've kept it for over 50 years.

I don't recall ever having made any New Year's Resolutions. Maybe once? Not certain, so I'm not certain if I kept it.

I did this year, though.

• To not put stuff in the sink to soak, then forget to wash and rack it, or finish rinsing it out and put it in the dishwasher. Drives my wife nuts.
  
• To promptly clean up packing materials from items received, instead of leaving it sitting on the kitchen table for days or weeks on end.
  
• To see how long I can go in the new year without purchasing a single non-essential good or service.
  

I'm resuming my diet this week, as well, but that's a thing I'd normally do after the Christmas/New Year "break." So not really a New Year's Resolution.

Won't be getting back to the gym as I'd planned, right away, though. My wife and I having just gotten over the Wu Flu, it having been touch-and-go for her for a bit, and it apparently on a steep rise right now, I'm a bit gun-shy. Since that's where I spent 99-44/100% of my time outside the house in the three weeks before I caught it, odds are that's where it happened.

Like many I have made them in the past then break them. So now if I'm making changes, I just do it and make it permanent. Whatever change it is, takes me months to complete. It's not something I can do in a day (NYE to NYD) or a week. Usually takes some hard effort and time. So in a nutshell I don't make them anymore. If I make a change I spend a lot of time thinking about it, push towards the change, and end up completing it months later after a bunch of try/fail.

Don't recall that I’ve ever made a New Years resolution.