As we head into February, many of you will have let your resolutions for 2012 slip. It’s incredibly common, so don’t fret. This month provides a bit of a “gut check” for some or even a fresh start for others. So whether you are tying to…

Struggles and difficulties are part of life. You cannot avoid these problems; it will always arise no matter how much you try to take control or organize the things in your life. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. ~ Henry Ford Problems are not the reason…

Don’t set yourself up for failure in 2010 by vowing to make huge changes that will be hard to keep. Instead follow these seven steps for successfully making a New Year’s resolution you can stick to for good.

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…

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…

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…

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 –…

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…

“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…

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…

(Photo by brungrrl) 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…

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…

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…

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? {democracy:2} What do you want to know? Submit a poll idea to tips at lifehack.org!…

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…