Three months into the New Year and I'm proud to say I'm still going strong with my resolution keeping (you can be the judge below). While the percentage of people keeping their resolutions is dwindling, I find it hard to think that even 50% of people are still keeping them. This site I've referred to before says that after six months, 46% of people are still going strong.
Fun fact:
In ancient Babylonia, one common resolution was to return any farm equipment borrowed from friends or neighbors.
My Resolutions:
1. Run a half-marathon. I haven't hit any physical roadblocks, but I realized something... you have to REALLY want to run to run more than a few miles any given day! During March, when the weather was nice (I'm a fair weather runner right now), I got out and got some miles. For a while it wasn't fun. But then a running partner appeared! I've only ran a few times with her, but it's a friend who has always been a good distance runner, so it's perfect for me who was always a sprinter and on distance can't always pace myself. So that helps majorly! Also, I hit a breaking point I think. For those first few increases in miles I was not overly optimistic and really thought I was going to die every time I went out and ran. Then one day I went out and did 4 miles by myself and my time wasn't bad! I realized I can run! So running is definitely going to be common (as the weather clears up), but strength training, and just random outdoor activities are all in play in helping me to get to my half-marathon come Oct!
2. Try new things. Since I'm late on this recap for March, this is actually probably an April update, but I write the blog and no one is stopping me from including this! I tried fresh eggs!! Sounds a little silly I know, but I've always eaten store bought eggs. I'm not exactly the farm girl type. So no chickens at my house. I was talking to a guy at work who has chickens and he told me he'd bring me eggs! I got 3 dozen, all fresh from the chickens that morning! 2 dozen brown ones, and 1 dozen white ones. Most of these eggs are HUGE, way bigger than I've ever seen! I ate an omelet the first night I got them (with my peppers in it of course), and it was noticeably different tasting than store bought eggs. I described it to my Mom as fuller. Not as runny perhaps, and she did say that the yoke is bigger than a store bought. (after she made fun of me and harassed me for being so excited about these eggs.) I actually couldn't even eat the full 3 eggs my Mom made the omelet with, but definitely good stuff! For pseudo-pro I've been tweaking my resume, attended a career fair, somewhat the same as before, so probably doesn't fall in the try-new things...
3. Be better at everything. This is actually a hard resolution to monitor! Not because I'm not trying, but everything is a big category! Patience is continually something I'm working on and I think that is noticeably better, I've also worked on my running form, a lot of random things. So I'm going to maintain that I'm continuing to improve on everything even if I can't give clear examples.
4. Find luck. I went to the casino... I lost $20 on slots, another $15 that was not mine, and $4 to the ATM fee... I didn't find luck at the casino, that's for sure! I'll keep looking... with the snow gone maybe I can find 4-leaf clovers??
My previous NYR updates:
January 1 - 12 percent
End of Jan- 64 percent
End of Feb. - 58ish percent... I bet
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