Posts Tagged ‘resolution’

Birthdays, Self-Reflection, and a Better Year Ahead

I recently had a birthday. As I’ve gotten older, birthdays have become for me a time of intense self-reflection: where am I in my life, where do I want to be, what could I improve? They don;t depress me, like they do so many others, but they do make me think. Birthdays are also natural times for me to make new resolutions. New Years Day has never felt like much more… Continue reading

September 3 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: birthday, change, goal, personal-development, problem-solving, resolution | 16 comments»

Healthy Habit Changes for 2009

Trying to make 2009 your healthiest year to date? I've compiled for you what I believe to be some of the best health conscience habits you can easily adopt. Habit 1: Drink more water. Sure, I know about all the news reports that say it's possible to drink too much water. Surprisingly, this same story is told just about every 4 years when news stations have no other "news" going on… Continue reading

January 15 2009 | By Jamie | Tagged: fitness, health, Lifestyle, new year, nutrition, resolution, weight-loss | 10 comments»

12 Ways to Make 2009 Your Best Year Ever!

2009 is now here and it is time to start planning for this New Year. Just what do you want from the coming year? How sure are you to achieve your New Year resolutions? Getting a fresh start with the New Year is an artificial custom - you can begin to get the life you love and live it at any time you choose. But let the first couple of weeks… Continue reading

January 12 2009 | By Arvind | Tagged: 2009, attitude, goal, goal setting, new year, relaxation, resolution | 11 comments»

Reaching Your Goals – Dutch Style

The famous ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ are upon us again, and those of us jaded enough to realize all our previous year’s failures may not even bother anymore. This is not a good strategy either, as it promotes fewer goals and dreams. It’s good to know the difference between a reasonable new year’s resolution – which is more like a goal – and one that is just plain silly: if… Continue reading

January 9 2009 | By Christine | Tagged: action, dutch, gaol, procrastination, resolution | 26 comments»

Goal Setting from the Inside Out

It’s so curious how we spend the last weeks of the year in a sugar-plum-induced family frenzy of parties and holiday sweaters, and expect to walk into our lives on January 1 ready to drill down and get things done. To get our minds focused back on what the year holds in store for us we make these shoulds-posing-as-resolutions and order all kinds of shiny productivity tools and smile at the… Continue reading

January 5 2009 | By Lisa | Tagged: goal, goal setting, Life balance, new_year, Productivity, resolution, resolutions | 10 comments»

How to Write a Personal Mission Statement to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever

"Your actions are your only possessions." - Lao Tse This is an excellent personal development statement to ponder as we watch 2007 dissolve into dust. Most of you made personal, one sentence resolutions like “I want to lose weight” or “I vow to go back to school.” It is a tradition to start the New Year with things you want to achieve, but under the influence resolutions are often unrealistic. 2008… Continue reading

January 10 2008 | By AJ | Tagged: goal setting, motivation, new_year, personal_mission_statement, resolution, value | 21 comments»

Do You Want 2008 to Be Your Best Year Ever? Let Go.

Try making a single change in your outlook

Regular readers will know that I am not much attracted to the type of article that can be summarized as “x simple ways to do y.” I distrust overly simple responses to life’s endless complexity, just as I distrust simplistic ways of thinking. However, I can think of one — just one — simple action that will make 2008 perhaps one of your… Continue reading

January 9 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: balance, guilt, resentment, resolution, revenge | 33 comments»

6 Guilt-Free Steps To Review Your New Year Resolutions

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The end of the year is always a good time for me to review my resolutions and take stock of what I have done over the past year.

However, for some people, reviewing New Year resolutions can be a painful affair. Some of you may have goals unaccomplished. A resolution review is just a stark reminder of how little you have achieved… Continue reading

December 28 2007 | By Lawrence | Tagged: goal, new_year, resolution, review | 16 comments»

8 Ways to Achieve Success in 2008

I don't believe in resolutions. The idea that a trick of the calendar should be the driving force for real change in my life seems silly. And yet, there's no denying that a year is a good block of time to think with -- long enough to carry out big projects and short enough to keep the end-goal in sight. Plus, a year is a good block of… Continue reading

December 26 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: commitment, goal, motivation, resolution, success | 29 comments»

How to Sell Yourself on Lifestyle Change

It’s coming up on that time of year again. You know, the time where you seriously commit to the same resolution that you seriously committed to last year... before life got in the way and it evaporated into thin air. Depending on who you ask, up to 85% percent of all New Year’s resolutions involved some element of lifestyle change, be it weight loss, exercise, better nutrition, improved life-balance or… Continue reading

December 26 2007 | By Jonathan | Tagged: change, motivation, planning, resolution, selling, success, weightloss | 23 comments»

How are you doing with your New Year’s Resolution?

The first month of 2007 is almost over. If you have set some new year's resolutions in the beginning of this year, how are your progress? Do you need any realignment of goals to make you back on-track?

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What do you want to know? Submit a poll idea to tips at lifehack.org!… Continue reading

January 25 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: goal, resolution | no comments»

15 Popular 2007 Resolutions

Since today is the 1st day of 2007, I've surfed to 43things to find out what are people's resolutions for 2007. All I can say it is quite interesting. Take a look: 1. lose weight 16909 people 2. stop procrastinating 13499 people 3. Fall in love 11402 people 4. be happy 10164 people 5. Get a tattoo 8937 people… Continue reading

January 1 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: planning, resolution | 4 comments»

Advice for students: New year’s resolutions

People in academic life, teachers and students alike, get a curious bonus — while everyone else trudges from January to December, we have a chance to begin anew with each semester, term, or quarter. In a wonderful passage from his autobiographyThe Seven Storey Mountain (1948), Thomas Merton evokes the feeling of possibility on a college campus when everything is about to begin again:October is a fine and dangerous season in… Continue reading

August 18 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: resolution, study | no comments»

How To Make Resolutions You’ll Keep

Too many resolutions barely last through January. Here's how to make plnas for 2006 you'll be certain to keep. Continue reading

January 2 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: action, article, career, commitment, failure, happiness, health, learning, Lifehack, motivation, personal, planning, resolution | 2 comments»

Don’t Celebrate Stressmas

Christmas is a wonderful time of year to practice forgiveness, and especially to forgive yourself. Walk into the New Year with an open mind and a hopeful attitude. Let go of all the baggage you’re carrying. Don’t ever be tempted to feel guilty about your emotions, let alone accept responsibility for anyone else’s. Continue reading

December 19 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: balance, family, happiness, holiday, life, Lifehack, personal, relationship, relaxation, resolution, work-life, worrying | 5 comments»