New Year's Resolution?

[oldtimer]

Well someone had to ask!

Have you resolved to do something in 2018?

My resolution is to teach my grandchildren how make fire without matches. First, however, I have to relearn how to do it myself .I'm ashamed to say I haven't used a bow and drill since I was a teenager. I'm never without at least three means of making fire in my EDC and this has made me lazy.

I'd love to know what resolutions others have made: it may give me ideas for more self-improvement!

 

[Man of Tanith]

1 reduce the kit i take with me (standard one) whilst still being comfortable
2 regular (ish) paid instructing
3 4 day office week for the wife and I
4 get Jake out more
5 cordage. Must practice it
6 cook more from scratch
7 dont reach for takeaway menu so much

 

[Grotzilla]

I'm aiming at becoming vegan and heavily cutting down on my alcohol intake!

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[Trig]

Need to try and get out more often.

Always plenty of notion during the week, full of plans for weekends and holidays, and then the time comes and i cant be bothered going out the house. Only to regret wasting the time and start planning for the next weekend. And repeat..

 

[snappingturtle]

Smoke less I'm down to about 3 a day but could do better maybe even stop! and get down and hike the moor's again, and slim my kit down I buy with my heart too much, and get myself sorted for a trip state side I miss the land there but don't think this year I could do it but maybe Scotland instead it looks so bleak and beautiful.

 

[Paul_B]

Try and change jobs / career. Got no idea how to do this since I've been in a 15 year rut.

Exercise more and in a more varied way. Try and do weights at home to add to my cycling. Try to get healthier whatever that means.

Possibly move house and replace the car with a campervan or van to convert. Possibly.

Then break almost every resolution when I realise I am being too ambitious.

 

[daveO]

I just aim to end the year with more knowledge and skills than when it started. Part of this involves a lot of recording and self reflection which I can be very bad at so maybe I'll resolve to improve that... again. I'm going through my photos and records for the year now. It's a nice way to spend the last few hours of the year.

 

[Paul_B]

Oh I have trouble looking back. What is done is done, move on is my attitude. You learn in the present. Or at least I do. As I'm messing up I learn from it.

Reviewing my year would drive me to boredom. At some point in the future I'll think of something I did this year but it's not a review just a memory. Plus it would stop me doing something else.

We're all different so I guess there's no ideal way.

Resolutions are about future IMHO. They're about what you want to do in the future. Reviewing the past, for me, wouldn't inform the future wishlist.

 

[Allans865]

I work away from home in the Oil and Gas industry, 3 weeks on 1 week off.

As a bit of a hillwalking nut, I have resolved to scale a Munro on every week off throughout the year, no excuses.

Photos and trip reports to follow.

All the best for 2018,
Allan


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[bopdude]

Loose some weight, get back into some sort of shape and get out at least once a month with more 2 nighters in the mix.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Survive another year.

 

[Bazooka Joe]

I'm planning on getting out more, doing some more overnighters, and training for and hopefully completing a multi day hike.

 

[Mesquite]

Survive another year.

Yup, that's top of my list as well

 

[Broch]

1) lose the 2Kg weight gain from Christmas!!
2) get the veg patch going again (I've not planted it for 3 years)
3) spend more nights under the stars

 

[Toddy]

Mine is to clear my UFO pile.
My unfinished stuff is becoming ridiculous

I would also like a good walk at least once a week....if I manage it, then photos will follow

M

 

[Broch]

Oh yes, and,

4) get back to doing artwork - I've got half a dozen unfinished projects and a few new ideas

 

[daveO]

Mine is to clear my UFO pile.
My unfinished stuff is becoming ridiculous

I would also like a good walk at least once a week....if I manage it, then photos will follow

M

UFO? I've got a mental image of you running a Scottish Area 51 now.

 

[Toddy]

You haven't seen my workshop
I share it with Himself, and he's into computers and IT and electronicky things, while I haven't met a handcraft (tatting aside) that I don't like

Right now he's got a (can't mind the word, makes 3D stuff) printer thing going, and I'm trying to sort out the fabrics to finish a quilt.

It's an interesting place to chill out

M

 

[Man of Tanith]

(tatting aside)

Right now he's got a (can't mind the word, makes 3D stuff) printer thing going

Whats tatting?

And its a 3D printer

 

[Mesquite]

Mine is to clear my UFO pile.
My unfinished stuff is becoming ridiculous

Mary, you of all people ought to know the unwritten rule of unfinished projects...

For every one taken from the uncompleted pile and then completed 2 more take its place on the pile