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My New Year's Resolutions for 2020

Chuck Donalies

Here's what I want to accomplish in 2020

At the start of every year I like to come up with a list of New Year's resolutions. I believe I'm more likely to achieve, or at least come close to achieving, my stated goals. In fact, there may be some truth to my belief: According to a study in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, 46% of participants who made New Year's resolutions were likely to succeed, over ten times as among those deciding to make life changes at other times of the year.

Feel free to share your New Year's resolutions with me!

Here's what I want to accomplish in 2020:

  1. Resume tracking what I eat. Around March of 2019 I faced the sad reality that I need to do something about the slow creep of weight gain that started affecting me in my late 30s. I started tracking and logging what I ate in the MyMacros+ app. At first this wasn't easy and it wasn't fun. However, after a few weeks I started to get the hang of weighing and logging my foods. I lost some weight and started to feel better. The only downside I found was that I had to buy new jeans because my old ones were too loose after losing weight (that's a good problem to have). The holidays derailed my progress, but I'll resume tracking now that all the celebrating is over until later this year.

  2. Continue CrossFit training ~3 times/week. Watching what you eat is only part of the equation; training to preserve muscle mass and improve mobility is equally important. I started CrossFit a few years ago and absolutely love it. Are the intense workouts for everyone? Definitely not. But in my 44 years this is the first workout regimen that hasn't allowed my body to plateau.

  3. Create more art. I love to paint and draw. Unfortunately, it's easy to get distracted by, among other things, life, numerous streaming services, and social media. I want to resume practicing with oil paints and finally finish some projects.

Coming Next Week

Next week I'll provide you with a summary of the SECURE Act of 2019. And in case you're wondering what SECURE stands for...Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement. Because every tax law needs an unwieldy acronym.