Open Thread: New Year’s Hopes and Resolutions

Maybe it’s my Catholic upbringing but I’ve always treated New Year’s resolutions as the tune up for Lent.  With the same vows (No more treats!  Be a better friend! Volunteer!)…and regrettably with the same results.

At the same time, I indulge in my hopes for the coming year.  I keep track of them from year to year – not the cosmic ones like world peace, but the smaller ones with the most impact on my life and goals.  This year I hope to progress in getting a book contract. I hope to decide on a website strategy and implement it. I hope to lose some weight and regain my pre-Covid muscle tone.  I hope to find the home of my dreams.

And I hope to leave my tech ‘comfort zone” and try a few new tech tricks. I did a podcast earlier in 2024 and I’d like to do more of that, and I’d like to get an Instagram experiment off the ground. There are two legacy PC programs I am still trying to revive so I can print them to help me stay on track.

YOUR TURN

Anyway, that’s me.  What are your tech New Year’s Resolutions? Let us know in the comments….and if you want some help with them, we have an answer for you!

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Virge Randall is Senior Planet’s Managing Editor. She is also a freelance culture reporter who seeks out hidden gems and unsung (or undersung) treasures for Straus Newspapers; her blog “Don’t Get Me Started” puts a quirky new spin on Old School New York City. Send  Open Thread suggestions to editor@seniorplanet.org