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I know myself well enough to avoid resolutions and challenges I will never do. You will get to know me better through this list of goals I will never attempt!
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5. Give Up Caffeine
I did this once, when I was pregnant, and happily returned to my caffeine-guzzling ways. I only have a couple of vices (as far as I know!) and I’m rating this one as relatively harmless. I just love coffee.
My first loaf (last January)
4. Go Gluten-Free
I have no problems with gluten tolerance, therefore I will not be giving up wheat. I respect the efforts of people who need to be gluten-free for medical reasons, but I am very glad not to be one of them.
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3. Spend Less Time on the Computer
I use a computer all day at work. Some evenings and weekends, I spend half of my free time on the computer. But I also spend hours and hours reading (printed books), cooking, gardening, playing with my cats, and other things that involve no screen time. In fact, I watch so little TV and so few movies that I think I deserve more screen time 🙂
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2. Retire Early and Go Travelling
Have you heard the argument that travel is overrated? If I embedded myself in another culture and learned how other people live, it would be valuable; otherwise, for me, it is expensive entertainment! There are lots of places I would love to see, and I look forward to some lovely trips. But I will not be organizing my life around it.
And the top challenge I will never, ever do is:
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1. Run a Marathon!
I exercise, I’m relatively fit, and I do not run. I admire the dedication that others have to running, and I understand the euphoria they must feel from attaining their goals. I especially see how training to meet a standard must be appealing. I don’t know if I will ever train to do something physical. I just want to keep my body functional!
I heartily recommend that you do all of these things. They will make you a better person. I will cheer you on via Facebook while drinking coffee and eating cookies 🙂
What are the popular challenges you won’t be doing?
An Exacting Life 
Love this… lol! I’m totally with you on the caffeine! I LOVE my coffee… it’s not going anywhere anytime soon! As for gluten… I had to give it up due to allergies, but I sooo miss it. 😦 I make homemade bread and it kills me not to be able to eat it as GF bread doesn’t even come close… ick! I actually agree with all your things, except the computer time… I need to limit myself or I waste too much time. lol! With 4 kids… not wise. 😉
Yes, it is adults only at our house so have lots of time to waste 🙂
Love your list! I have to agree that: caffeine is good (I have a love-hate relationship with it myself), gluten is bad (for me, but I love it anyway), less time on the computer would be good (but not likely to happen), traveling permanently isn’t all it’s cracked up to be (we tried it for a year), and I don’t run unless someone is chasing me (but I do like walking marathons!). Popular challenges I won’t do…anything to do with deprivation–I have no willpower!
I could probably walk a half-marathon but have no incentive!
Ha! Well, I won’t be going Vegan any time soon! It’s difficult enough to find things I can eat with all of my food allergies, adding any further restrictions just makes me miserable.
Yep, I am mostly vegetarian these days and will not be going the vegan route. But, would never do paleo either!
100% agreement!
2 of a kind 🙂
Hilarious! At 27, I agree I won’t retire early and travel the world (or take a gap year) – I get so over long term travel – finding laundromats and restaurants and and and… short frequent little trips are better! As for the others – I can and I have given up caffeine (in the same objective as the giving up of wheat and dairy… which is to help my psoriasis). I continue to limit my intact of wheat and dairy, but I wouldn’t say I’m either allergic, nor stringent in following some diet. The screen time one is interesting – I spend work time in front of a computer (save for time on site, which is maybe 20-30% of my work). At home, I have a laptop with no internet, which effectively means I use it to watch TV shows (as I don’t have a HDMI cable to connect it to the TV). In affect, it means my ‘computer’ time is pretty low in leisure time, though I do use it a bit for downloaded TV shows (which come from friends…)
Sounds like you’ve found a good balance.
I’m with you on the Marathon…give me Yoga any day. Caffeine gives me palpitations…so decaff everything for me…my ‘long suffering’ has my quota he enjoys extra caffeinated. I won’t be giving up the landline – I hate those walk around phones and not too clever with mobiles either. I could give up work and travel in a Camper Van would that be classed as retirement?
If you want it to be 🙂
I actually like working and not even thinking about retirement yet other than saving for it, but would like to get some travel time in – we missed out on all that round the world stuff when we were young – we really were penniless students.
I have some modest travel “hopes” but if they don’t come to pass, that’s OK – competing priorities.
Love this list. I have given up gluten but it’s for health reasons and I feel great. I wouldn’t give it up to be trendy. I totally agree on the marathon thing, give me yoga, walking and swimming any day. I also spend a lot of time on the computer, but I will have to cut that down when I have kids I guess.
There is an ebb and flow to everything!
I thought about going gluten free for a week to see if I feel better at all. People seem to say how great they feel after getting rid of wheat. It’s just so difficult to find food without it. To be completely honest, I work with sorghum that is a gluten free cereal grain so gluten free products are very good to me.
Yes, going gluten-free seems to work for a lot of people.
Sometimes I think they just test people for it if they have any stomach/digestive problems. So many people get diagnosed for gluten intolerance / celiacs disease.