New Year’s Resolutions for 2026

[BeamerBikes]

Starting a new thread for folks to post New Years Resolutions.  
 

Putting it out into the ether for myself - 

- Be able to perform 20 good form pull-ups by Year’s end

- Finish the professional certification to demonstrate mastery in my technical realm. 
- Examine potential teaching/consulting opportunities

[samhexum]

Stop being so perfect so that I stop intimidating everyone I interact with.

[+ sync]

I resolve to stop downing myself when I fail to maintain my resolution(s).  

[CuriousByNature]

I resolve to start removing the paper bag from my head when I leave the house.  I'll use a large ziplock instead.  That resolution will leave me breathless.

 

[+ JamesB]

I will stop texting "I’m on my way" when I am clearly still standing in my bathroom in a towel.

I will finally unsubscribe from the 47 newsletters I haven't opened since 2019.

I will spend less time browsing Netflix for something to watch than the actual length of the movie I pick.

I will stop saying "We should totally hang out soon!" to people I have absolutely no intention of hanging out with.

[samhexum]

3 hours ago, JamesB said:

I will stop texting "I’m on my way" when I am clearly still standing in my bathroom in a towel.

simple solution... just leave for wherever you're going as soon as you've hit send.

[Whoisyourdaddy]

For a few years, I've cut my annual slot play in half and rolled the money into my investment portfolios. Now, I don't have anything significant to cut in half for next year, so I've come to the end of the road.

Good riddance, slot machines!

[+ purplekow]

After a lifetime of being at least 5 minutes late, I will try to be on time.  I am on time to things such as movies, the theater, sporting events it is mainly meetings with friends which seem to be my bugaboo.  I have been good about getting to my appointment with my trainer on time but usually it is just on time or a minute or two late, so I will resolve to get there early which if accomplished, will stop me from being anxious on the drive over there. 

[Andy768]

On 12/13/2025 at 10:25 PM, BeamerBikes said:

Starting a new thread for folks to post New Years Resolutions.  
 

Putting it out into the ether for myself - 

- Be able to perform 20 good form pull-ups by Year’s end

- Finish the professional certification to demonstrate mastery in my technical realm. 
- Examine potential teaching/consulting opportunities

Wow, 20 pull-ups in a row is very ambitious! For me at least. I just have a completely unoriginal "I want to get into better shape" resolution. 

[Luv2play]

I stopped making New Year’s resolutions after I perfected my life some years ago. Now I just try to stay on that track. 

[+ purplekow]

9 hours ago, Luv2play said:

I stopped making New Year’s resolutions after I perfected my life some years ago. Now I just try to stay on that track. 

Hmmm you say you have a perfect life....consider to resolve some keener insight.  Not that your life might not be perfectly fine, but which of us is perfect?   Unless I missed your tongue in your cheek.  

[Luv2play]

2 hours ago, purplekow said:

Hmmm you say you have a perfect life....consider to resolve some keener insight.  Not that your life might not be perfectly fine, but which of us is perfect?   Unless I missed your tongue in your cheek.  

Saying I perfected my life is not the same as saying I am perfect. Far from it. But I achieved a life that I am content with so I do not make resolutions to try to improve things. Why make changes when I am happy with the status quo. Changes can be destabilizing especially when one is older as I am. 

 

[+ purplekow]

32 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

Saying I perfected my life is not the same as saying I am perfect. Far from it. But I achieved a life that I am content with so I do not make resolutions to try to improve things. Why make changes when I am happy with the status quo. Changes can be destabilizing especially when one is older as I am. 

 

Well I guess that is one philosophy.  I, on the other hand, had what one might say was a content life and I decided, as a man of considerable age, that the man I was at 21 who took off to live in a foreign land not knowing the language, was still inside of me.  So I sold my house and moved across country to find a different and hopefully better life.  I succeeded.  Some of us are content with the routine of our life and others believe there is a lot of RoUTine, rut in routine.  I am happy that your life is perfect for you.  For me, staying put would have been making the resolution to not make any drastic changes. It seems safe, predictable but for me ultimately unexciting. Most people that I know me were dismayed at my decision to make such a drastic change.  It is likely that many if not  more of the posters here would agree with you interpretation.  However, life is change, for all of us and some are willing to try for a big change, even in their eighth decade.  .

Edited Tuesday at 10:55 PM by purplekow

[Luv2play]

2 hours ago, purplekow said:

Well I guess that is one philosophy.  I, on the other hand, had what one might say was a content life and I decided, as a man of considerable age, that the man I was at 21 who took off to live in a foreign land not knowing the language, was still inside of me.  So I sold my house and moved across country to find a different and hopefully better life.  I succeeded.  Some of us are content with the routine of our life and others believe there is a lot of RoUTine, rut in routine.  I am happy that your life is perfect for you.  For me, staying put would have been making the resolution to not make any drastic changes. It seems safe, predictable but for me ultimately unexciting. Most people that I know me were dismayed at my decision to make such a drastic change.  It is likely that many if not  more of the posters here would agree with you interpretation.  However, life is change, for all of us and some are willing to try for a big change, even in their eighth decade.  .

Of course you wouldn’t know my whole life story so to add a little more detail. I took an early retirement at 50 because I was in a position to not have to rely on a steady pay check. I sold my house and moved back to Montreal, my hometown. I bought a condo in the Gay Village and found a house in Miami to spend my winters. So that was my big change, like yours in a way but taken earlier. 
 

After five years I tired of the Miami situation so as I had inherited a house north of Montreal in the country I started spending more time there and got a dog. 
 

Another five years later I moved my principal residence to a small town in Ontario and sold the condo in Montreal. I got a second dog as I now had a house with a large lot. And so it went. The two dogs aged out eventually and I am now living alone with a quieter life but with trips to Toronto and Montreal to liven things up. 
 

But I belong to several volunteer organizations and stay busy that way on a regular basis. My health is good and I swim regularly at my club. When I hit my 80’s in a couple of years who knows what that will bring! I hope I can still see escorts regularly as I do now. In this forum I imagine I am one of the busier members in that regard. It costs a fortune but I have no-one to leave my money to as my siblings are all well off. 
 

So at this point I am content with things as they are. 
 

 

[marylander1940]

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I'm surprised losing weight is not the main New Year's resolution! I guess finance related subjects have become more important this year!

[BigK]

9 hours ago, purplekow said:

Hmmm you say you have a perfect life....consider to resolve some keener insight.  Not that your life might not be perfectly fine, but which of us is perfect?   Unless I missed your tongue in your cheek.  

I think you may have missed his tongue in cheek.  That’s how I took it..

[+ poolboy48220]

The usual. Work out more. Get better at closing the kitchen cabinets when I'm done with them. I mentioned the latter to a friend just a few days ago, and he was aghast. 😁

[+ Charlie]

I am resolving to stop saving everything--I have become a hoarder. My house is overflowing with things that should be thrown or given away. My late spouse could never bring himself to throw away any kind of paper--printed, written, a drawing, or even blank sheets,  and I have been setting aside at least an hour per day to go through them and save only those that would be of real interest to someone else or of some kind of use in the future. So long, airline ticket receipts from 1975 and train schedules for the Swiss railway system in 1981! Farewell, hand-drawn birthday card from a 7 year old niece who is now 53! Into the trash for alumni magazines from 2010 for schools I graduated from 60 years ago. Do I really need to save bank statements from ten years ago? (I know: I should shred them rather than put them in the recycling bin). My spouse was an architect and painter, so he had large supplies of blank drawing paper; it seems wrong to throw it away, but I can't find anyone to give it to.

What do I do with his old medications and those I haven't used in years? Why do I save clothes I will probably never wear again? What do I do with all that equipment for dinner parties now that I no longer entertain? I pity the family members who will have to deal with all of it when I expire, so I resolve to get rid of as much as possible, and try to stop accumulating more.

[samhexum]

16 hours ago, marylander1940 said:

 

I'm surprised losing weight is not the main New Year's resolution! I guess finance related subjects have become more important this year!

People on this site are either too old to care anymore or need to stay trim for professional reasons

Edited Wednesday at 05:52 PM by samhexum
because he's bored as hell

[samhexum]

32 minutes ago, Charlie said:

I am resolving to stop saving everything--I have become a hoarder. My house is overflowing with things that should be thrown or given away. My late spouse could never bring himself to throw away any kind of paper--printed, written, a drawing, or even blank sheets,  and I have been setting aside at least an hour per day to go through them and save only those that would be of real interest to someone else or of some kind of use in the future.

I'd be happy to take any US paper currency that's cluttering up the place.

I'm altruistic, you know.  I just want to help.

 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 06:17 PM by samhexum
for absolutely NO @%!*ING reason at all!

[+ Charlie]

5 minutes ago, samhexum said:

I'd be happy to take any US paper currency that's cluttering up the place.

I'm altruistic, you know.  I just want to help.

 

 

 

Sorry--all I have are plastic cards.

[samhexum]

2 minutes ago, Charlie said:

Sorry--all I have are plastic cards.

I'll help in any way I can, no matter the personal sacrifice!

[+ Charlie]

40 minutes ago, Charlie said:

I am resolving to stop saving everything--I have become a hoarder. My house is overflowing with things that should be thrown or given away. My late spouse could never bring himself to throw away any kind of paper--printed, written, a drawing, or even blank sheets,  and I have been setting aside at least an hour per day to go through them and save only those that would be of real interest to someone else or of some kind of use in the future. So long, airline ticket receipts from 1975 and train schedules for the Swiss railway system in 1981! Farewell, hand-drawn birthday card from a 7 year old niece who is now 53! Into the trash for alumni magazines from 2010 for schools I graduated from 60 years ago. Do I really need to save bank statements from ten years ago? (I know: I should shred them rather than put them in the recycling bin). My spouse was an architect and painter, so he had large supplies of blank drawing paper; it seems wrong to throw it away, but I can't find anyone to give it to.

What do I do with his old medications and those I haven't used in years? Why do I save clothes I will probably never wear again? What do I do with all that equipment for dinner parties now that I no longer entertain? I pity the family members who will have to deal with all of it when I expire, so I resolve to get rid of as much as possible, and try to stop accumulating more.

BTW, I found a pile of old written porn that I didn't know he had, and I put it in the recycling bin. I don't know what to do with the videos.

[samhexum]

9 minutes ago, Charlie said:

BTW, I found a pile of old written porn that I didn't know he had, and I put it in the recycling bin. I don't know what to do with the videos.

Masturbation is touching one's own genitals or other erogenous zones for sexual pleasure, a normal, healthy, and common sexual activity without physical harm, offering benefits like stress relief, mood improvement, and better sleep by releasing feel-good hormones like endorphins. While myths wrongly link it to blindness or mental issues, it's a natural way to explore your body, discover what feels good, and can even improve partnered sex, though feelings of guilt can arise from cultural or religious beliefs. 

[+ Charlie]

49 minutes ago, samhexum said:

Masturbation is touching one's own genitals or other erogenous zones for sexual pleasure, a normal, healthy, and common sexual activity without physical harm, offering benefits like stress relief, mood improvement, and better sleep by releasing feel-good hormones like endorphins. While myths wrongly link it to blindness or mental issues, it's a natural way to explore your body, discover what feels good, and can even improve partnered sex, though feelings of guilt can arise from cultural or religious beliefs. 

Thanks for the advice, but I learned how to do that 75 years ago, and never thought there was anything wrong with it.