New Year's Resolutions

This is my first actual read of this thread, and it turns out that @Bobby Cole and I were on the same page (in our thinking) with the new resolutions for this year. (What we want to do better as oppposed to stopping something)
I want to take better care of my health this year, and learn new ways to do that , besides what I have already been doing.
I have been listening to self-improvement apps when I go to bed at night, some are for attitude, and some are for healing, losing weight, stuff like that.
I have found a new youtube channel called “Vortex Success” and it is subliminal messages combined with binaural beats, and each one lasts for about an hour.
I set up the stereo in the front room so I do not always have to use headphones, and when I am reading here on the forum, or just knitting something, I have one of these playing in the background.
One of the ones that I have been playing is to help attract more money (obviously SS is not going to help with that one), and yesterday I had a person who saw my craigslist ad email me and ask if I can make crocheted angels.
I have never tried this, and I am not sure how much it would pay; but she says she uses them all year long and it would add a little extra cash in my pocket.
So, maybe the money-motivational thing is working.........who knows ?

 

I am too far from a mall for it to work for me, but a lot of people use enclosed shopping malls for walking, which is particularly helpful in the North, where it's too cold to go walking in the winter. The malls around here even advertise themselves for that purpose, anything to get someone to the mall, I'm sure.

A few years ago, I thought I would try bicycling. My wife and I both bought bicycles but, for one thing, you can only bike in Maine for a few months out of the year. For another, there's no good place to do it. Very few of our roads have paved shoulders, and most people look at any adult on a bicycle as if there's something wrong with them.

 

If I lived near a mall, I might walk it. Unfortunately, the Tractor Store in Millinocket isn't big enough to give me a lot of exercise.

 

It is December, so do you think that it is too early to talk about the New Years resolutions for 2019 already ? I have actually been thinking ahead to what I would like to accomplish with my life for next year, and actually, it is pretty much the same things as I want to do each year. Maybe if I just keep trying, I will make it someday, but at least it keeps me focused in the right direction better than if I don’t think about what I want to be doing.
I have been remiss in my listening to tapes at night, so I am starting back with doing the lose weight ones again, and following my eating plan better, which has been kind of out of focus lately, too.
I discovered that Amazon Prime videos has subliminal videos, so I have been trying out some of those to see which ones I like, and I found a headband with speakers inside, which is much more comfortable than using headphones or earbuds, and is also a night mask over my eyes,
It seems to really help me sleep better, too.

I am also thinking about becoming a foster “mother”........but for dogs, not kids. I miss my Chipper so much, but I know that no other dog could ever replace him, and still I miss having a little dog. There are so many that are on the lost/abandoned dogs group on facebook, or just older ones that take longer to be adopted and don’t do well in a shelter environment, so the shelter tries to place them in foster homes until they find someone who wants to adopt. I think that Chipper would like me to help rescue dogs that needed help.
And if I did find one that I wanted to keep, then I would be able to adopt it, since I would already be fostering the dog.