My kiddo and I are having a fruit and vegetable challenge. Each month we’ll seek out a fruit or vegetable we’ve never tried and taste it. My BFF is trying to walk all the greenways in our county (that is county not country, low stakes! Attainabl!). How about you?
I’ll skip all resolutions and promises. Instead, I’ll go with a theme.
- Lose ~15kg
- Start a business
- Make friends
- Fix my mental health
- Get my career back on track
- Stay clear of meth
That last one might fix all of them
Failing his last one might help with the first one. But don’t.
Dude these all seem like they could be very hard to do. Mine was gonna be like save more/stop going to restaurants so much
What kind of business?
I don’t know yet. Probably something in the retail tech space. Electronics, networking, SBCs, etc. It’s going to be a year of chucking shit at a wall to see what sticks.
If these your low stakes resolutions, i would like to know your high stake resolution.
“World peace, end hunger, fix climate change”
Drive less and ride my bike more.
I’m planning to walk 1000 km in 2024. Nowhere fancy, just around my neighborhood.
That’s just around 2.74km (rounded up) per day. So around 30 minutes of walking per day. Are you sure you’re not doing more than that already?
Ah… Sadly no. That’s why is my low stakes resolution. :) I work from home and I’ve gotten very lazy. I just roll from my bedroom to the office, down to the kitchen, and repeat.
American workers have a lot of struggle getting walking in as their jobs don’t require hardly any. Walk to car, drive to work to park in garage and walk a few hundred feet to elevator, from elevator a few hundred feet to desk, repeat that trip home, make dinner, go to bed, repeat the next day. It’s even worse for remote workers as they walk from a bed to a desk at most, many remote people I know work from their bed (I could never…)
320x200 or if thats too complicated 640x400 or 640x680.
Low stakes… I feel like 320x200 would be high stakes because of the difficulty. Low stakes would be more like 1920x1080
I’m taking a 1 month tolerance break, because getting high isn’t really interesting anymore
Oops, thought you meant “a break from being tolerant” and I was like, yeah, stop putting up with bullshit!
Finally we’ve found a solution to the paradox of tolerance!
That first hit when you get back will feel great I imagine. Enjoy the crazy dreams for the first couple weeks!
I used to read all the time, now I almost never read anything.
So this year I’m resolving to read one book, any book, then I’ll move foward from there.
I did this in 2021. This year I consumed 13 books (7 audio, 6 paper). Wishing you and your love for reading the best!
After Reddit shut off 3rd party apps, I came here and resolved to read more. In the previous decade I had read maybe 2 books. I think your resolution is achievable but i would make it ridiculously achievable of reading like 1 min a day.
The habit of reading is what you want and the books will come after that and chances are you will read much longer. Don’t read anything you “should” be reading. Get a “popcorn flick” equivalent that you interests you and isn’t challenging.
Here is what I have read since June.
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Shogun by James Clavell
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Wool by Hugh Howey
Shift by Hugh Howey
Dust by Hugh Howey
Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
(Reading) A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
The Wool trio by Hugh Howey is a banger! I actually just finished Shift yesterday, and I’m gonna borrow Dust from a library tomorrow.
I’d recommend getting into Asimov’s Foundation series. I, Robot is kind of a meh book from him, Imo (I’ve read all his fiction work)
Also take a look at Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey).
I’d also recommend Heinlein, but his books do get pretty “pervy misogynistic old man harem fantasies” in his later years.
Great recommendations. I want to read the foundation series, I’m enjoying the show, but the wait time on Libby is really long. Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors. I do need to read some of Clarke’s books but it almost suffers from “classical” must read avoidance I have lol
If Asimov’s Robots series has a shorter/no wait I think they’re worth reading. Maybe not as exciting as the Empire and Foundation series, but it’s interesting background- the evolution of robots, positronic brains, robot/human relations, jump ships, space colonization, human clones. Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and Robots of Dawn are murder mystery detective stories that advance the robot plot.
Asimov recommended reading his books in this order:
The Complete Robot (1982) and/or I, Robot (1950)
Caves of Steel (1954)
The Naked Sun (1957)
The Robots of Dawn (1983)
Robots and Empire (1985)
The Currents of Space (1952)
The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
Prelude to Foundation (1988)
Note: Forward the Foundation (1993) was then unpublished, but would have followed Prelude.
Foundation (1951)
Foundation and Empire (1952)
Second Foundation (1953)
Foundation’s Edge (1982)
Foundation and Earth (1986)
https://more.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1584219139/1735833849
I appreciate the recommendation and listing them out! That is actually helpful as I don’t like searching up which book is next.
If you aren’t already in it, it sounds like you belong in the sci-fi community on Lemmy.world, some of those were books of the month recently.
I am and that’s why I read the books. I do need to get better about going into particular communities to help drive their growth.
A link for the lazy?
https://lemmy.world/c/sciencefiction
Let’s see if this works: c/[email protected]
Thanks!
You betcha, friend.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
That’s helpful. Good bot.
I recommend finding a movie you love that was a book first and reading it. I’m an extremely picky reader and I did this with Dune and LOVED it. Hasn’t gotten me much further but this may help kickstart your love of reading again.
I recommend The Martian as a book that fits your criteria
Definitely read that one before the movie came out. Excellent read. Great suggestion anyway!
That’s what happened with The Hunt for Red October. Got me into Tom Clancy.
Ohhh, I haven’t tackled that one yet. My father loves Clancy (too bad Clancy was a douchebag).
I recommend starting with young adult novels. There are a lot of great ones and they are easy to get into. Large fonts makes fast reading. They generally have an interesting theme and simple plot. Great way to get started. Trying to go from nothing to something complex like Infinite Jest is a recipe to fail.
They aren’t all love triangles anymore
If you are in Canada or the US I can’t recommend the Libby app highly enough - books, audiobooks and magazines borrowed to your devices from your local Library. Looking at the last 5 years of borrowing it has saved me (pirating probably) thousands of dollars of audiobooks, and having an endless supply of audiobooks with zero cost really encourages reading.
I suggest the Wheel of Time Omnibus edition. Available on Kindle for $148, 14k+ pages, great one book solution to your re-solution.
I don’t know if you’ve ever read Stephen King but he’s pretty good
I want to read at least ten books, and learn ASL.
I’ve started painting 10-15 minutes every day and I want to keep that up. I fell off reading nonfiction so I’m planning to start that again.
Try Dragonfruit.
I’ll add it to the list! Kiddo is 4 so we’re probably just going to go to the Korean market and see what catches their interest
Oh you are going to be disappointed.
May be a little too wild, start with litchi or something
Do you mean Lychee fruit, or are you saying to track down an actual lich and run it through a chipper shredder? I’m in either way
Is it? My local grocery store in small town America has whole dragonfruit in the produce aisle and includes it in their overpriced mixed fruit tubs.
This is probably one of the most common resolutions…but I’m going to (continue) to work out.
I started a strength training program in the beginning of November and have been consistently hitting the gym 3 days a week. It’s been great for both my physical and mental health.
Same! I’m doing the hybrid calestenics program last few months and hope to keep it up.
My son and I got an Ender 3 Pro 3D printer for Christmas from a family friend who scored one from a print farm for cheap. She also gave us upgrades and we’ve been learning how to print. Already successfully printed a calibration cube and master sword. We have a bunch of functional prints we want to tackle so it’s been a fun learning experience for both of us.
So what’s your resolution?
Learning how to create better 3D prints and printing functional objects.
Definitely a worthy pursuit!
Improve my Spanish. It’s low stakes because I was going to be doing it anyway, but this makes it a formal goal :)
Mine is really just getting back into working out. I kept trying to go too hard after my shoulder surgery and kept pulling muscles (not in my shoulder), so I’ve taken like an 8 month break to let my body heal. This time I’m starting with my goal being 30 reps with perfect form at 5lb and going from there.
It sucks losing a bunch of muscle mass that you busted your ass to get, but luckily it’s easier to regain it than to grow it the first time.
That sounds serious and high-stakes.
On that note, my resolution is spending more time socializing with people. It’s getting too drafty in here.
365 days streak in duolingo. You can do a single lesson in about three minutes and it will extend the streak
As someone with almost 500 day streak, don’t expect to really learn conversational speaking on there. I’ve reached the point I can mostly read and make out French sentences, even with words I don’t know explicitly, but to have a spoken conversation at this point I believe would be impossible
