New years resolutions


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I tried searching for it, and I couldent find any threads like this-so here goes.
With January right around the corner, this is the time to be making new years resolutions.
Post your resolutions for 2012. Thats all there is to it- I will go first.
1. Get out more
2. Spend more money on unnecesary gear:4:
3. Learn to use an axe, and a tomohawk- I dont have them yet, but if i fufill number 2, I will be in good shape
Your turn!
 
1. Quit Smoking (First child on the way. Promised the wife.)
2. Succeed with a bowdrill
3. Eat and drink healthier (I'm addicted to soft drinks and fried foods)
4. Get better at tree and plant ID
 
1. More time in the woods.
2. Master more skills.
3. Reduce my amount of "stuff"
4. Reintroduce my son to the outdoors.
5. Have fun in all my experiences.
 
I don't have any resolutions per se but I do have a to-do list:

1. Finish bushclass basic
2. Make sure my wife has a basic understanding of bushclass basic
3. Identify and char 10 different natural char materials (1/10)
4. Obtain necessary gear that I'm lacking
5. Increase my knowledge of wild edible plants
6. "consider" quitting smoking... again
7. Learn and perform basic tanning and leather crafting (mostly for bags, packs and clothing)
8. Learn more about making clothing
9. Make two or more knives
10. Incorporate more wild edibles into our diet
11. Make a usable bow and some arrows
12. Learn more about construction using raw, natural materials
13. Download every last pdf in the BCUSA archive (j/k)

I could probably go on but I'll spare you of that.
 
Non bush related

Drop 45lbs
full time job

Bush

12-20 overnighters (atleast 1 per month)
hike 80 mile section of AT here in georgia in one outing/weekish

and something ive wanted to do for a while

Fire from nothing.. meaning no tools knives or accelerants etc.. go out in the woods and harvest the wood if i do friction fire.. process it with stones or glass etc found on the way in.
 
1. finish bushclass
2. handrill.
3. Get out just as much as this year (38 nights in 2011)
 
Get as much woods time in before December 21 2012. :4:

Seriously though:
1. Hit the gym more
2. Brush up on wild edibles
3. More woods time with the girlfriend.
 
Go on dates again
finish getting my AS in Child Development
teach my daughter to read
Become a Pyro... My fire craft still sucks
make soap
make primative style pottery
make baskets from yucca and cattail
find all the wild edibles in my area... AND EAT THEM
get a place where I can have a big dog.. and maybe a goat... or a chicken or two
get rid of my black thumb.... grow at least one plant for an entire year without it dying on me

and ahem..... my dirty little secret..... Quit smokeing.... already cut back to only one or two a day
 
Preliminary thoughts...

1. Complete Bushclass
2. More productive hours per day
3. Couple of destructive habits, ended
4. More focused time with wife and kids
5. Laugh and have fun every day.
 
1. more time out in the woods
2. drop to 135 lbs
3. get fire with bow drill
4. get out to the shooting range more often
5. spend more time with family and freinds
6. run everyday (kinda goes with 2)
7. test some knives and gear
thanks for the opportunity, great thread
 
Get down to 200lbs.
Master the hand drill
Organize some bushcraft meets
and last but not least...
Fall deeper in love with my wife
 
In 2012 if the apocalypse doesn't occur I want to:
1. Become proficient at finding natural tinder even when it rains
2. consistently start fire with fire steel any where, any time
3. Jog more
4. Buy a esee-6 :)
5. Make a better sheath for my Mora that's on the way!
6. learn to make as many traps and snares as I can and catch stuff with them
7. Buy a light-weight tarp and finish my backpack
8. Get a Ruger 10/22 for hunting
9. Get a re-curve for hunting with.
10. Get my first deer
11. Get my license the day I turn 16
12. Do an over-night backpacking trip
13. Attempt a survival day
14. Make my dad proud by getting a scholarship for playing saxophone
15. Ride in a plane for the first time.
16. Go to Georgia over spring break for the Swing Central Jazz Festival! Whoot!
17. Finish Bushclass
18. Eat a snail
19. Don't get hit by a bus
20. Do 200 press-ups in a row without stopping
21. Get a job when I turn 16
22. Eat less crap
23. Drink more water
25. Blow something up. :cool:
 
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CarbonEvergreens said:
In 2012 if the apocalypse doesn't occur I want to:
1. Become proficient at finding natural tinder even when it rains
2. consistently start fire with fire steel any where, any time
3. Jog more
4. Buy a esee-6 :)
5. Make a better sheath for my Mora that's on the way!
6. learn to make as many traps and snares as I can and catch stuff with them
7. Buy a light-weight tarp and finish my backpack
8. Get a Ruger 10/22 for hunting
9. Get a re-curve for hunting with.
10. Get my first deer
11. Get my license the day I turn 16
12. Do an over-night backpacking trip
13. Attempt a survival day
14. Make my dad proud by getting a scholarship for playing saxophone
15. Ride in a plane for the first time.
16. Go to Georgia over spring break for the Swing Central Jazz Festival! Whoot!
17. Finish Bushclass
18. Eat a snail
19. Don't get hit by a bus
20. Do 200 press-ups in a row without stopping
21. Get a job when I turn 16
22. Eat less crap
23. Drink more water
25. Blow something up. :cool:
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i need to get a tarp to, and i really need to do a survival day with my buddy, we've planned it out, and whats a press up?
 
I never cared for New Years and here is my reason, and a positive one i think. 1: You may only live for 75 years, therefore, if yu live by the years, you only ger 75 chances. 2: You have more days than years. Each day the sun rises is a new chance to do something better and make your resolution for that day. Then you can do it the same again the next day, 365 times in one year to the standard 1 time a year. Each day is cause for a resolution i think.

My resloutions are:
Become more people friendly.
Become better at bushcraft.
Be better at work.
Set the bar for others to beat.
 
1. Finish BushClass
2. Learn to do more with less gear
3. Lose weight
4. Get out more (day hikes, and a handful of overnighters)
5. Work on getting out of debt
 
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