Welcome to Resolving! Have a cookie.

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Welcome to resolving! This is a general community for resolutions: making and maintaining them, just in time for you to get to making your 2011 New Year's Resolutions. A few rules before we get started!

( click to read the rules )

If there are any questions about the rules or the community in general, please ask in the comments below, PM existence, PM erika, or email cookiepirate at gmail dot com and/or midnightparadox at gmail dot com. Please remember to mention resolving in your note if it's not in the comments here.

Next up is going to be a friending meme and then a better description of what the comm's going to be up to in the new year! Hint: it involves a lot of milestones.

the dread pirate known as introductions

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This is a chance to get to know each other and share our resolutions that we're going to start in the new year, as well as any ongoing resolutions we may have.

Remember the community guidelines, although it's fine that if for this post and the next one, you bring up resolutions that you're not sure how to frame in terms of duration or exact endpoint. Secondly, I would encourage everyone to take a look at this, on how to set good goals for yourself.

The goal here is to set goals that are perhaps difficult for yourself, but ultimately achievable, and on your own terms.

Questions!

Name:
About You: Anything you'd like to share about you, and perhaps your motivations.

Three things you'd like to change about yourself: We all tend to have a very long list here, but what are the top three things that could be different?

Resolutions that you've made in the past: Ways to expand: Have the failed? Succeeded? What's worked, what hasn't? What would you do again? Etc.

Resolutions that you're making this year:
Resolution: The basic goal, in broad terms.
Plan: Your steps in achieving this.
Keeping track: Are you going to write on your personal journal? Use a website, a notebook? Let us know.
Endgoal: This will be successful if. If you have a broad range of definitions for success, please choose a precise goal in that range as well.
&c.: Anything else

Code!
<b>Name:</b> <b>About You:</b> <b>Three things you'd like to change about yourself:</b> <b>Resolutions that you've made in the past:</b> <b>Resolutions that you're making this year:</b> <i>Resolution:</i> <i>Plan:</i> <i>Keeping track:</i> <i>Endgoal:</i> <i>&c.:</i> Anything else

Some plans, some questions, and a chance to get to know each other.

[existence]

Hello everyone, I'm existence, and I'm your host on the road to making your resolutions stick. This here is a community to help each other keep our resolutions, as previously stated, through discussion of our goals regularly, with each other, and whatever community wide activities that we attempt.

Plans! They're pretty awesome. Please note that at the moment, all my plans for this community are very flexible, and thus time scales here are all stated in tentative terms. I would like to draft a complete schedule and plans by next Monday.

1. In the next week, we'll be holding open the first post (here), a combination of friending meme and a time to share your goals for the new year.

2. The first discussion post would go up sometime next week, and would occur weekly, or perhaps more frequently if people want. Discussion posts would be a time to check in, announce changes, successes, failures, new resolutions and to help each other keep on track of our goals.

There could, either additionally, or replacing the regular discussion, be a monthly check in post to declare how you did that month.

3. Other activities! I've had people suggest to me matching up people to do the resolutions with directly. I'm also thinking about hosting if not more then once a week discussion post, maybe a post with a Weekly Question that everyone could answer in commn or in their journal, or hosting someone regularly who could talk about their goals in specific areas, like diet, finance, or the like.

4. I'm still feeling out mentally what other posting could go on here, so if you have an opinion on what you'd like to see or not see, now is the time to let me know.

I desire feedback, as much as you can give me, what sounds good, if you think things should be adjusted one way or another or if you have an idea about how things could be done differently or if something should be added. This is my first time in running a community like this, and if you have more experience in being in this sort of community and have tips or models you favor, I would like to look at those too.

You can reach me in the comments, at cookiepirate at gmail, or via PM.