New year, new us.
In case you’d somehow managed to miss it, today is the last day of 2018. In other words, the opportune moment to set a bunch of resolutions for 2019 with the hope that at least one will stick. We asked the team to gives us theirs for the upcoming year, read on to see how they want to change their lives in 2019.
Kim, CTO
“In 2019, I would like to read more. Reading helps me wind down and relax, but I don’t really take as much time to read as I would like to. My goal is to read one book per month, and I’m not counting business-related books, there’s nothing relaxing about those!”
Fanny, art director
“This year my goal is to START EXERCISING. I make the same resolution each year, but something tells me that 2019 will be the right one!”
Matthieu, editorial manager
“I recently started Brazilian jiu-jitsu following Benjamin Glyn Phillips’ wise advice. I currently train twice a week, which is good, but I’d like to bring it up to three weekly trainings in 2019, with the aim of getting my blue belt or at least a stripe on my white belt!”
Alexia, digital product manager
“I have two resolutions for 2019. The first is to become a better cook. In December 2018, I somehow managed to burn pancakes when cooking for friends at home. By December 2019, I want my pancakes to be perfect! My other resolution is to go and see the ophthalmologist. I can feel my eyesight getting worse, but I’ve been postponing it for the last 2 years. I need glasses!”
Pénélope, growth manager
“My 2019 resolution is to do more cooking and stop ordering Deliveroo meals every night. Time to reach those healthy and balanced #dietgoals!”
Cécile, customer experience assistant
“In 2019, I would really like to sort through the massive pile of paperwork which has built up into a dangerously unstable column on my desk. The idea is to make room in my flat, and in my head!”
Léo, front-end developer
“Send more messages to my grandmas, as they keep asking me to do!”
Mercedes, product development assistant
“I have two resolutions: to completely quit smoking, because I only ever smoke when I go out for drinks, and that’s just stupid, and I want to start painting again because it relaxes me, and I’m struggling to find occupations that help me wind down in Paris!”
Sébastien, translator
“I lost a bunch of weight in 2018 by eating slightly better, and working out consistently. I’d like, for once, to be able to keep it up in 2019, and not be put off by the quantity of food my Mum got me to eat at Christmas and the perspective of every gym in Paris being packed with people who share the same resolution as me.”
Théau, customer experience specialist
“Go to the sea more often. Listen to the noise of the waves, and relax. Eat mussels for lunch, swim against the tide, bask in the sun on the beach, and finally finish the book I started six months earlier, and why not smoke a cigarette while watching the sun go down (and certainly tell myself that I should at least attempt to quit smoking next year).”
Théo, lead developer
“I have no resolutions for 2019!”
...which, after all, is probably the best way to make sure you don’t break your resolutions, right?