New year, new you?

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I have changed more this year than any other year on my life, maybe even more than over a couple years. I learned serious nunchaku moves and techniques, (currently I know thirty! ) I lost a lot of weight, (currently about forty pounds) I learned who I am, I got a steady job, I learned how to try and be less awkward and shy around new people, I became an expert on nutrition and diets, and I have been happier more consistently than any point in my life.

I feel like this site can be like a diary of sorts and I can share anything about myself here, I will make posts related to that specifically later but for now I would just like to express my new years resolutions.

1. I want to lose more weight and pick-up where I left off on my martial arts training.
2. I want to start a nunchaku (nunchucks) tournament for Alaska and win, there will be a style competition for visual performance and a combat competition/tournament for practical uses of nunchaku as a weapon. (one versus one using a point system for strikes)
3. I want to win a Super Smash Bros. tournament, I have won small time tournaments but I want to win a big one. (We have about half a dozen Smash Bros. tournaments a year)
4. I want to meet some fellow Alaskan aspies close to my age, my friend has AS but he is twenty-one and he is already my friend and I wouldn't want to date him.
5. I want to make a fixed schedule for myself all year round, martial arts and nunchaku in the summer starting May 1st because that's when it starts getting nice in Alaska, and video games in the winter starting September like Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Active Life: Outdoor Challenge, Animal Crossing: City Folk, My Japanese Coach, and maybe some more of the My Coach games to learn other languages. Purpose of video games mentioned listed in order: competition, excercise, relaxation, learning. I have become less and less interested in video games so I want to make sure I keep at it because I want to remain a gamer.

That is quite a bit but seeing as I have already accomplished so much I want to try and really go for it!

I no longer make resolutions because I have never kept any of the ones I've made in the past.

I've never made resolutions, and I don't plan on starting to now.

I never made resolutions before either but you can always start this year, a lot can happen in one year and if you keep the resolution on your mind you should be able to accomplish it.

Become stronger than you were yesterday, whether it be in knowledge or strength, or both!

Last edited by sethzack on 02 Jan 2009, 6:16 am, edited 1 time in total.

Being stronger doesn't work as a goal for me.
One day I'll be strong, the next weak. I have no control over such things, and they are vauge descriptors anyhow.

You know how the U2 song goes: "nothing changes on New Years Day."

I too have changed mutch in 2008. My grades went from literally all E's To all A's. And I've become addicted to the computer. Im posting at 12:05 in my time zone and unfortuneatly my resolution is to spend less time on the computer!

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Last edited by Forsaken on 01 Jan 2009, 6:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The are not really vague. bench press one day and the next you can lift that miniature oven that was giving you problems, read a random book one day and you know more than you did the day before.

I highly doubt it, I don't think I could spend more time away from my computer, because my computer is just about all I have. Spending time in the real world would be hard since I don't know anyone to hang out with and it is stressful for me to meet new people.

I don't mean change something that your AS prohibits. I mean improve yourself, make reasonable goals and try your best to achieve them.

My friends always thought I was just a nerd that stayed home all day but if I had it my way I would never have even met them, you can try to go out. I recommend going to a place where there are people with similar interests, I met my best friends at a card game store (one has AS) I met some others at a anime convention.

Eh, phsycial things aren't my forte. And I do read what I can, cause I love to read, lol.
But I don't really learn more, due to my bad memory.

As long as you learn something from reading that's all that matters, I also have a bad memory but I can retain some of what I read. I had to read the asperger's section of Wikipedia multiple times because I couldn't remember it all and wanted to be an expert on it.

Got to love wiki. X)

Oh man, I just thought of another awesome saying!

I am not the smartest person in the world, I am not the strongest person in the world. But I take pride knowing that I can probably beat the worlds strongest person in a spelling bee or debate and I will probably win in an arm wrestling or sparring match with the worlds smartest person.

That is a neat saying.