New Year's Resolutions

RaysWay

RaysWay

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On the drive to work today I started thinking about New Year's Resolutions...

Wikipedia definition: A New Year's resolution is a secular tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice, such as opening doors for people beginning from New Year's Day.


Anyone want to share their New Year's Resolutions? I'll go first:



1. Pay off all my debts (my student loan will be paid off in March 2015 :rockon)

2. Compliment strangers more often

3. Workout less (how much better can I look?)

4. Coat my wheel barrels

5. Finish my personal detailing website

6. Read more books in 2015

7. Organize my detailing supplies/tools better

8. Golf more

9. Take a vacation back to NY

10. Make more videos and learn more about video editing
 
Mine is to......

Be more giving
kinder to strangers
give back to the community
Move into this 3 Bay garage I've been look at
more time with wife and kids
appreciate the things we take for granite
my faith
stop smoking
 
wendell jarvis said:
Mine is to......

Be more giving
kinder to strangers
give back to the community
Move into this 3 Bay garage I've been look at
more time with wife and kids
appreciate the things we take for granite
my faith
stop smoking
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Whoa a 3 bay garage! Very cool. Good luck on that!
 
1. Pay off credit cards
2. Travel more (anywhere)
3. Add new tools and products to my arsenal
4. Build new client relationships for the shop
5. Train more often with my boxing peers
6. Go to at least two detailing training seminars/classes
 
jsou said:
1. Pay off credit cards
2. Travel more (anywhere)
3. Add new tools and products to my arsenal
4. Build new client relationships for the shop
5. Train more often with my boxing peers
6. Go to at least two detailing training seminars/classes
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I forgot to add I want to get my passport book, I have the passport card for traveling. I would love to get into boxing but there's no gyms around me :(

Angus said:
Vega, thats awesome! Good for you man!!!
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Ya I'm very excited. I told myself no new motorcycle until it's paid off, so I'm looking forward to it. It's been a long road but time goes by very fast. To anyone with debt, just make a payment plan and stick to it. A year will go by in no time and removing debt is an amazing feeling.
 
Vega@Autopia said:
I forgot to add I want to get my passport book, I have the passport card for traveling. I would love to get into boxing but there's no gyms around me :(

Ya I'm very excited. I told myself no new motorcycle until it's paid off, so I'm looking forward to it. It's been a long road but time goes by very fast. To anyone with debt, just make a payment plan and stick to it. A year will go by in no time and removing debt is an amazing feeling.
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I have to get my passport book too! Amazing feeling it will be when all of the bills are paid. Makes you feel brand new.

I'm sure you could find a local gym. I joined a while back to get in shape and to relieve stress as I was in a very bad place many years ago. Detailing took over, then the shop opened up, and the rest was history.
 
It seems like more and more companies are becoming "goal oriented". Many interviews for jobs incorporate the question, "Where do you want to be in one (or three or five) years?" I've always said that I would like to grow the company I am working for and develop personal skills that would benefit the customer's and client's perception, relationship, and service of the company to the relationship with the customer or client. When asked how that could be done, I said,"It's simple; put the client's needs ahead of profits and treat customer's like YOU want to be treated." Apparently, this philosophy is not taught in business schools as most give HR/Personnel directors/interviewers give this weird look to you. Most feel like profits are the ONLY reason a company is in business. For me PAYING, REPEAT customers are the key to profits and servicing them to meet their needs and perceive that they have purchased a service or product at a value to them is paramount to the success of any business.
So what does this "Utopian business model" have to do with New Year's resolutions? Personal goals are just that: resolutions to improve yourself OR the lives of others. When one focuses on the needs of others, it's indirect consequence is that it often improves ourselves. It may be naïve on my part to think this way, but I believe that any business or person who practices this "goal/resolution" brings success and meaning to their business and themselves.
So if working out more, spending more time with your family, stop smoking, losing some weight, detailing more cars, getting more experience about detailing, or getting that Rupes DA polisher (that's mine) is your resolution, I hope it is done with the premise of helping or impacting someone else as well.
 
1. Be a better person-> more giving-> more patient -> and more understanding
2. Try not to get upset when the board gets flooded (Slammed/spammed) with 3D/HD reviews from the people who got free product.
 
None, If I say them it won't happen...

I just take that approach because it's just like people who go to the gym... we can't stand the new years resolution people. They flood the gym for two weeks to a month an then give up. Nor do I believe that waiting for the turn of the year to actually change. What happens if a week in your not on par with a goal, do you wait till next year :rofl
 
I will be more tolerant of stupid people.........

Another resolution to add to the list of resolutions I haven't been able to keep.......... :D
 
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