2009 Resolutions?

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Skye

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Ok, list them here. Hopefully we can bump this thread every few weeks in the new year so we can stay on track!

1. Eating healthier and hitting the gym again.

2. Have my store open in 6 months.
 
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Eat better. Get more sleep. Start exercising.

Install better lights, new electrical outlets, and dust control in my garage shop.
 
So? What is important about all the resolutions people make and promptly "forget" within a month? I didn't start the year with intentions of quitting smoking after nearly 50 years, starting training for ultra endurance cycling, reducing my consumption of animal products by probably 90% or losing 17 pounds. On January 1, 2008, I had no plans to do any of those things, they happened because one day I just decided to do it.
 
Gerry,

I made a resolution about 10 years ago that has been a very important, healthy and happy decision. It has at times been a very difficult struggle but I have been able to achieve it thus far and hope that I can fight any natural or unnatural forces to keep.

My wife, kids and family have been so very loving, understanding and supportive. Absolutely any time I have stumbled they have been there to catch me before I fell and picked me up. The feeling I get from keeping this promise to myself is one that can simply not be explained. This year will be a milestone for me as it will mark the 10th year and with the aid of my family we will celebrate and I will renew this vow to myself tonight at exactly midnight.

The New Years Resolution I made at exactly midnight on Jan. 1st 1998 was to no longer make New Years Resolutions.

LR
 
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On January 1, 2008, I had no plans to do any of those things, they happened because one day I just decided to do it.
That is the entire point to this thread. The only difference is you picked some arbitrary date in the middle of the year while many people choose January 1.

Skye wants to know who is following your lead and making changes to their lives starting on that one day, January 1, 2009.
 
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1-Get a Job
2-Buy a Car
3-Buy a Cellphone
4-Get a Bank Account
5-Get Guitar Finished
6-Make a Website
7-Turn more Pens
8-Get Lathe Set Up
9-Make $$$$$$!
10-Be Nicer and more Respectful to my Parents
11-Make Better Grades in School
12-Go to Craft Shows
 
1. To learn to appreciate life more, and get more out of each day

2. To continue my quest to get back in good shape

3. To spend more time with Friends and Family

4. To learn to be a better turner

5. To make some sales this year

Happy New Year!

John
 
Slight modification!

1-Get a Job
2-Buy a Car
3-Buy a Cellphone
4-Get a Bank Account
5-Get Guitar Finished
6-Make a Website
7-Turn more Pens
8-Get Lathe Set Up
9-Make $$$$$$!
10-Be Nicer and more Respectful to my Parents
11-Make Better Grades in School
12-Go to Craft Shows

Move10 and 11 to 1 and 1A!!!
They will have more bearing on the rest of your life than ANY of the others.

GOOD LUCK with all of them!!
 
Can someone mark their calendar to have this thread revisited in June so people can report on the progress of their resolutions?

BTW, I hope Dawn keeps her resolution!!!!!!!
 
I have some goals:

1: Start the website for my penturing
2: Clean out and organize my garage & shed
3: Rebuild the small fence I have in the back yard
4: Get that motorcycle paid off
5: Save up some money
6: Redo the flower beds that I have in the yard & plant a small garden
7: Get me a pet
8: Keep going to AA meetings
9: Rebuild my small trailer
10: Keep learning at my job

I find it works better for me to set goals instead of making resolutions...
 
1. work harder at getting my shop going
2. get back to working out
3. start collecting rare woods
4. build a display case for #3
 
2009 resolution

Don't turn the lathe to max rpm. I was turning a cedar bowl today. It blew up after turning the speed to max. I guess I forgot to think before acting. No one hurt. Just loud noise and lesson learned.
 
Happy New Year my friends!

Thank you all for spending another great year here in our community in 2008. I hope you are as excited about 2009 as I am. The one 2008 accomplishment I'm happiest about is getting our great management team in place. Our success here depends on teamwork and we have a great team in place to carry us forward in 2009 and beyond.

My sincere thanks to Lou, Al, Lance, Andrew, Mannie, William, and Scott for stepping up to take on important roles on the management team. Thanks also to Ed for the constant reality checks and pearls of wisdom. And we all owe a big round of applause to Curtis for his nearly constant attention to everything that goes on here. Thank you my friends - you make my job easy.

A couple stats on 2008... we added over 1000 members, 161,000 new posts, and on average we had 800 unique members a day checking in. Your kind and generous donations kept the lights on, and your participation has made us far and away the most popular pen making community on the Internet.

Finally, let me make this very personal; Five years ago today, with the incredible moral support and encouragement of my friend Scott Greaves, the IAP and penturners.org became a reality. I remember "throwing the switch" and coming back to the computer a couple hours later to find 13 new members! I was terrified! NOW what do we do??!!

Many of you old-timers know what we've been through here. Sometimes it hasn't been easy, but there has never been even one second when I felt it hasn't been worth it. I have made friends all over the world, I've learned countless, priceless lessons about human nature and dealing with people, and I believe with all my heart that we've built something here which changed lives. We could take this thread to 100 pages each talking about the friendships we've made and the things we've learned. Lives have been changed here - we've made a difference.

Lastly, here are my own resolutions!

1 - do less (I have too many irons in too many fires. quality suffers.)
2 - do better (I want to choose what I do carefully, and do it well.)
3 - enjoy more (I will strive for more personal satisfaction in what I do.)

Thank you all, and may 2009 bring you all the best life has to offer.
 
1. Pay even less attention to naysayers and critics.
2. Start living as though tomorrow may never come because one day it never will.
3. To constantly remember that when the going gets tough, the tough get going all the while whiners still whine.
4. To remember that it is better to be envied than to be pitied.
5. To have more tolerance towards the ignorant yet stand defiant in the face idiotcy.
6. To put truth above feelings.

And a good quote to live 2009 by:

"Joe Cobos
MSgt USMCRet.

Being a U.S. Marine isn't everything...it's the ONLY thing. "I came into this world kicking and screaming while covered in someone else's blood and I have no problem with going out the same way."
 
1. more time with family
2. more time in shop
3. don't make conflicting goals
4. do 8 shows this year
5. don't take any of this stuff too seriously, number 1 is all that matters
6. follow cav's advice more often! Pappy van Winkle or nothing!
 
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Like Coach, maintain a 4.0 (pursuing 2 graduate degrees).
Eat better and lose weight.
Turn something this year (I turned nothing in 2008).
Continue to enjoy seeing EJ (2+ yrs old) and Bethany (8 months old) grow up and cherish the time I have with them and my wife, Kellie.
 
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