New Year's unresolutions

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03 January 2024, 01:50 PM

wtg

New Year's unresolutions

Steve posted something a while back about it being OK to take things off your bucket list. Before doing them, I mean...so I've got one, maybe more, that I'm taking off my list...here's the first one...

I bought a ukulele during the early part of COVID and have done basically nothing with it. I'm going to find a home for it and the associated "learn to play uke" DVDs.

Edit: Found Steve’s post…you move it from your bucket list to your chuck-it list.

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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

03 January 2024, 06:02 PM

Mikhailoh

I resolve to be the same wonderful person I am now. You are all free to evaluate that as you will.

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03 January 2024, 08:27 PM

Daniel

Well, you get to a certain age and realize there are things you want to do or experience, yet the plain truth is you won't have time for many if not most of them.

I'd like to go to Italy; I'd like to listen to Mozart's entire catalog; I'd like to read more books than would be remotely possible.

I resolve to try, however impossible (minus going to Italy; I can take this off my bucket list).

03 January 2024, 08:34 PM

wtg

Here's the article that Steve referenced a few months ago. ~~I think this is a gift link...~~ Never mind, looks like it's not free..

https://www.washingtonpost.com...t-life-goals-let-go/

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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

03 January 2024, 08:46 PM

CHAS

"chuck it list" I like that.
May modify it and use a rhyming word that is from the forum title instead.

03 January 2024, 08:54 PM

wtg

Let's try this one and see if it's free...

https://www.sentinelsource.com...76-c22575516e51.html

To Chas' point...

quote:
How do you define happiness and success? Are you pursuing goals because they make you feel fulfilled, or do you feel pressure to finish what you started?

While bucket lists can be a fun way to track long-awaited experiences, it may be mentally healthier to drop some goals into a "chuck-it list", said University of Minnesota philosophy professor Valerie Tiberius.

Tiberius discovered chuck-it lists from her father, who playfully uses a more explicit turn-of-phrase. In his older stage of life, he's realized some bucket-list items won't get crossed off and feels relieved to let them go.

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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

04 January 2024, 12:36 AM

RealPlayer

I want to downsize to a smaller piano...don't know if that will ever happen.

I don't think I will do any more extended bicycle tours. I need to master mounting and dismounting all over again.

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04 January 2024, 04:00 AM

Daniel

Joe, I had an adult tricycle with a basket in the back for storage.

It was bought for $25 for us at a garage sale, vintage '70's.

I liked it a lot. It got $85 of bike shop work, but if you let your hands off the handlebars, it steered itself sharply to the left. That couldn't be fixed. They were asked to do everything needed, yet mysteriously replaced the rear tires and not the equally bad front tire.

It got to the point where you had to put air in all three tires after riding it only a mile.

A new one is on my list.

One might be easier and safer for you to ride.

IDK.