Resolutions in the New Year

[aldersprig]

Weight and Health:

• Lose 36 lbs over [48/36] weeks.  Fit comfortably in [my smallest jeans/a size 6]. 
• Be active a little every day, a good amount (1/2 hour+ once a week, a lot (2+ hours, a hike) once a month)
• Get rid of encroaching flab under arms; have a stomach I don't mind being seen in a swimsuit.
• Eat more vegetables: at least half the plate at least 3x/week
• Be able to handle the stairs at any of the given local parts without panting. 

Writing:

• Have Rin/Girey finished and ready to Kickstart by April at latest (this allows for working on it in JaNoWriMo and MaNoWriMo)
• Submit at least one story a month for publication
• Addergoole:
  • Get Addergoole E-books available
  • Work on B-sides and have at least 10 5 available before the end of the Addergoole Year

Social:

• Go to at least three social events this year
• Make at least one friend I feel comfortable hanging out with for, say, coffee once in a while

Emotional:

• Set boundaries. Tell people when they're making me uncomfortable.
• Language: learn how to speak in un-ambiguous language and ask for clarification when I think someone else is being ambiguous

Etc:

• Find an marginalization organization plan that works and stick with it. (so far ToDoist seems to be working very nicely.

Phew!

How about you?





 

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

I'll be interested to see what you think of ToDoist! I've never heard of it before, so I checked out (though your HTML is broken for the link), and honestly it looks a little intimidating at the moment. I have been wanting a better way to manage to-do lists, though... I lose paper and Evernote just feels cluttered however I make my lists.

[aldersprig]

I've found it really useful so far! @cluudle pointed it out to me, and it's pretty easy - the only complaint is that their recurring date feature isn't very intuitive.

This is what my list looked like one weekend day: http://twitpic.com/bqiu1y

How I do it:
* define a project (House Stuff)
* List things I want to do, either single-time ("by Tuesday") or recurring ("every three days")
* do them and check them off.
* add more, frequently. "Oh Year!"

[inventrix]

I've found the recurring dates thing a little odd sometimes, but the main thing I come across is wanting to do things that it doesn't seem to be able to. XD

(specifically, set a task for "every day in January 2013")

[aldersprig]

Yes, that one bothered me. Or "every day for four days."

[inventrix]

I am finding it to be the OPPOSITE of intimidating! It is Really Easy to use. You just divide up your tasks into general categories (or less general, if you like that better) and then add tasks as you think of them.

e.g. make a Project named "Chores". Add a task for "clean the kitchen" and set the due date to something like "tomorrow" or "every day" or "every Saturday".

And then if you like it and want, you can start poking at some of the more complicated features or uses, but you don't have to. :D

(I really like that it has an app for basically everything, too, so I can use it on the web, attach it to my browser, or use it on my phone, meaning every time I find myself going "oh right I need to do this thing, I need to add it to my list" I can just add it RIGHT THEN, which means it actually gets added!)

[clare_dragonfly]

That does sound pretty easy, actually. And convenient, with the apps! I shall have to poke at it at some point.

...I'm adding it to my paper to-do list XD

[aldersprig]

Ha :-D

[clare_dragonfly]

Okay, I've set up ToDoist and I'm really liking it! The only small complaint I have is that I couldn't set anything up for "every Wednesday and Sunday." And that I can't put in notes without paying, but that's perfectly fair--it's still quite usable in the free version.

Also, I might not have gotten any writing done today if I hadn't wanted to check off all of my boxes XD I love checking off boxes.

[aldersprig]

The checking off boxes is awesome!

I have unfunk and weight-loss check boxes, as well as writing checkboxes (Including JanoWrimo goals). It's awesome!!

[(Anonymous)]

As an idea, have a 'Wednesday' one and a 'Saturday' one? ~Wyste So two items, but each would repeat correctly.

[clare_dragonfly]

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing XD It just looks silly.

[inventrix]

That was a thing that got me, as well: it doesn't understand "and". You'll need to enter it like so:

every wednesday, sunday

and then it will work

[clare_dragonfly]

Oh! Neat! I'll try that.

Ooh, I think it worked! Thank you! I also just noticed that there is a button for "postpone" which is very convenient.

[inventrix]

The postpone button is one of my favorite things!

Almost as much as the color-coded graphs! :D

[clare_dragonfly]

I like it when useful things also make themselves fun!

Though possibly they are only fun because we are nerds.

[aldersprig]

My only objection to postpone is what it does with tasks that are regular and not daily (i.e., puts them off 'till the next occurrence). I have put in a complaint ticket :-D

[inventrix]

Oooh, interesting. I actually like that about it, but that is probably because I use the postpone button as a sort of "I am not going to do it this time" as opposed to "I'll do it later".

The "I'll do it later" ones I leave for when originally scheduled, which keeps them at the top and easily visible. Mostly to keep myself from continually putting things off...

edit: Although admittedly, I think it would be Super Awesome if the default postpone behavior stayed the same, but it gave you an option of postponing it to a particular date. e.g. you do something every Mon/Fri but your schedule is such that it is Monday and you plan to do it tomorrow, you could click "Postpone to..." and enter "tomorrow".

This is a thing I wanted to do earlier, actually, except it was a one-time thing and I wanted to postpone it to the following week.

[aldersprig]

Aaah. I feel better if I can xx off things at the end of the day, or at least have a bare list. So I like being able to move it to the next day.

I agree with your ETA!

[inventrix]

I do too! :D

...Hence my recent institution of a limit on the tasks I can set per day. >.> Pushing tasks to the next day feels, for me, just as bad as leaving them, and with less likelihood of them getting done. But I am learning my limits! Learning limits is good!

(This post has turned into the Todoist discussion board. XD )

[aldersprig]

I've been pondering your limit as an idea.

I'm not sure where mine would be, because several of my tasks are "remember to do this" very easy ones - weigh self and write it down, for instance.

[inventrix]

Some of mine are also very simple, but they're daily recurring ones. I've tentatively determined that I can manage around 8 non-trivial to-do items a day, maximum, but I may be able to slowly raise that over time.

Or not! That would also be okay.

[aldersprig]

I'm loving that I don't just lose things. Even if I don't do them right away, they're on the list and I get to them, instead of not-doing-them-then-poof-what-was-I-doing?

I have nine tasks left on my list for today. If work had not been busy, that might have been a possible list. Not so much as it happened.

(one of them is "write down everything you ate," and it's the last one I check off every night).

[inventrix]

Wow. Mine... mine is a lot shorter. XD; (But considering I don't generally DO resolutions, it's kind of nice to actually, you know... have goals in life? >.>) Mine are mostly variations of "follow through on that plan you have", with a bit of fitness and religion thrown in for good measure.

What is a marginalization plan?

[aldersprig]

organization!

"Follow through" is really 9/10 of this list and the stuff not on here, too.

[inventrix]

Why did you use the word marginalization? *curious*

[aldersprig]

typo. Utterly missed it until you pointed it out, but a complete typo.

[inventrix]

.......OH.

WELL. Now it all makes sense. XD

[aldersprig]

:-D