[suziequeue]

We have a Gantt chart on the fridge in the kitchen and put our plans for the house on there.

2013 start and finish enclosed.
As you can see - we only got through about half of it 

[Backinwellies]

Love that suziequeue   ...  a great recording sheet  and really useful to be able to look at and review what you achieved and more importantly what prevented you doing the rest?   ...... too big a project? (cut into small chunks on chart for 2014)    no money (maybe better left off 2014)  weather (well there is always plenty of that in Wales!!!

Anyone else got a good example of planning system?


I have done  June and July accounts (didn't quite get there yesterday  but having set the time and day really gets my brain focussing).  So am setting Aug  for later pm today,  and September for tomorrow pm (after hangover worn off!!)

[suziequeue]

I did my tax return paperwork in time for Christmas (my step Mum is a tax accountant and has always done our returns). I was so pleased with the neat way that I had all the documentation in a folder that I wrapped it up and gave it to her as a Christmas present!!! (jokingly - I gave her other things aswell!!)…. all just in time to have the bill worked into my tax code for next year so no need to pay a big  lump sum by  the end of Jan - PHEW!!! 


I am now motivated to get my 2013/14 tax return done BY THE END OF MAY

[fiestyredhead331]

ok well I resolve to

1 continue to smoke too much

2 continue to drink too much red wine and coffee

3 continue to ignore all the negative people who say I can't do things!

4 continue to love those who say yes you can!

party on people! 

[Lesley Silvester]

I resolve to spend more time writing. After my success in NaNoWriMo, when I achieved over 50,000 words in one month, my aim is to write 3,500 words a week starting at the beginning of the year. I will make a spread sheet to log my success/otherwise.

[Humblepie]

lose 4 stone 

[Backinwellies]

Humblepie  ..... maybe you need to just say what you will weigh by end Jan (unless you intend to lose all 4 stone by then ! )


MGM great target  ... look forward to your success.

[bigchicken]

Loose a lump of weight and get my bantams good enough to show

[zoe_emma]

My only resolutions are to do things I like with the people I love.
I got sucked in to the world of promotion and working all hours before Christmas, and my family suffered. My daughter has been like a different child while we have been home doing stuff together.
I will continue to work, I have to. But as far as above and beyond goes then I'm afraid my family are more important.

Lots of fun stuff to look forward to, we are getting married at Easter, OH has a job interview at end of month so a chance to escape where he is now and stop working nights. We have ordered the seeds for the veg plot, got a baby poly tunnel, we have an old caravan we are restoring for holidays - starting today!

So my resolution is not to lose sight of what is really important.

Happy New year guys, and thanks for being there with advice/support/humour whenever it is needed 

[Daisys Mum]

Not a new year resolution, but zoe_emma really pleased things are going better for you and your family.

[ellied]

OK I'm trying a more specific rewrite after a couple of really bad days in a pretty dire year all round I'm determined things need to change in 2014.  Probably drastically, but to start with..

1. I am not going to let up on the NHS to clarify diagnose and inform me of options/achievable outcomes on all health issues through all departments and both/all 3 hospitals concerned.  It wears me down and I tracked the year from when I finally went to the GP back in March because I couldn't take it all any more, and it is unbelievably hard work, easy to let it be pushed down waiting lists and backburners and easy mistaken assumptions regarding existing conditions, but N. O. is my resolution, I will not give up.

2. Without riding, hillwalking and all the other physical hobbies I used to have, I need some form of exercise that is pleasurable rather than just collapsing on a sofa between the necessary rounds of physical chores that I now find so hard.  I've got physio exercises which I'm doing, and I've got a few wee things I can do just in the kitchen when waiting for the kettle like a few squats maybe or just stretching.  But I need to look at facing the swimming pool and find one that I can get to that hasn't a vertical ladder exit alone as neither feet nor  hands will get me out via one of those!  I have heard Perth has one, possibly Glenrothes, and I must overcome the embarrassment of my current physical state to have any hope of improving it.  So I will.

3. I have already taken the step of advertising 2 ponies on the breed sales list, tho they may not be up yet due to office holidays.  But any foals born this spring, regardless of how much I like and want to hang onto them, WILL be advertised straight away for sale at weaning and I will not let a good home with a decent price go by due to my addictive behaviour about breeding and future bloodlines.  I need sales before weanlings get too strong for my hands to be sure of holding, so I will be ready from day one for the fact that nothing stays bar the oldies and crocks I have, and a breeding mare as long as I have my stallion who needs the company plus one as a spare if the one with a foal has to be removed for treatment or foalhandling.  And no more!

Not all achievable by Easter but hopefully an improvement in terms of smart targets and all that...

[Louise Gaunt]

Godd news Zoe Emma, I am glad things are getting better with your daughter. I hope your OH is successful with his job application, and good for you about your job- it is so easy to get caught up in work to the detriment  to family life. Wishing you a happy and more settled 2014 !

[madchickenlady]

I always struggle with this, I have dream resolutions and reality resolutions!!

Dream resolutions 

Find a small holding within reasonable access of Bristol (six grandchildren and another on way there) needs to be on a very long term lease!!

OH to find well paid job in above location!!

Reality resolutions

Make the most of the lovely rural cottage I currently live in and get it sorted and de-cluttered (My bedroom finished TODAY

Find a cheap (very)  local (very) piece of land to plant with fruit and veg, maybe keep a couple of pigs and sheep for own consumption,

Find a way of doing some kind of horticultural/animal husbandry course (this is more of a dream resolution really)

Think I had better stick to my reality resolutions!! Mind you, if I don't get off this web site I will have failed at the first hurdle (again)

[Backinwellies]

Well   have now done  June, July, Sept Oct and Nov ..... so yes small focused and time allocated goals DO work! 

MCL  good idea to have dream and reality resolutions ...  dreams do come true if you take small steps towards them ......  check out SE Wales for small holdings .... good access to Bristol (only hour and half from here) .... job for OH 

[madchickenlady]

yay, finished my bedroom  Next round, my craft room    this is the biggie, been here three years and never got it straight. Had loads of card making stuff, then inherited my Mums' when she died, its so stuffed I can't even get in there so all this stuff is useless  IT HAS GOT TO GO!  anyone local who could make use of some of this, can't post due to probable weight but happy to make up a mixed box as long as you don't mind what you get! Mostly card, paper, ribbon and bits and bobs, probably some cd roms and I also have four - yes four- boxes of stamps, need to sort out my favourite and get rid of the rest!