Resolutions for 2010

Happy new year, everyone!

As always, it’s come the time to start laying down resolutions for the new year. While I’ll agree with most people that resolutions are mostly forgotten by April and that they’re notoriously hard to keep, I’ve always felt that, even if we don’t follow the letter, we can follow the spirit of the resolutions.

After all, even if we don’t achieve exactly what we said we would by the end of the year, at least we would have used them (when we remembered) as motivators and guides throughout the months.

My main resolution for 2010 would be to get a silver for my IPPT.

Ask any ORD-ed NSman and he’d tell you that health and fitness mostly goes down after leaving national service. Studies, work and other aspects of life often clog up our time and, without enforced and disciplined exercise, we wouldn’t have time to keep fit.

Thus, I’m going to set that goal for myself, not only so I can fulfill my IPPT requirement of the year and not have to go for remedial training (not to mention the cash incentive, which would be lovely to a poor student like me), but so that I would force myself to consistently exercise throughout my school term and try to keep fit.

Why not gold, then, you ask? Well, I know my limits and, after all, resolutions have to be tough but achievable right? I was never even close to getting a gold during my full-time NS and, now that I’m in school and have less time to train, I’d be glad to be able to hit my silver requirements.

Of course, being a university student, I’d also resolve to do well in my studies and try to get on the Dean’s List, which seems an increasingly phenomenal task.

What are your resolutions for 2010?