100 New Years Resolutions for 2011

Happy New Year

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Natalie Grant only done your resolution-making decisions easier.

WHEN THE CLOCK ticks over, the brand new we is not magically created. It takes hard work to fortify yourself as well as to grow. So if we choose to burst on the goal-setting bandwagon of 2011, we might have the little critical rewards entrance your way. If we choose not to well, wishful thinking never hurt anybody.

Here have been 100 ideas for New Years resolutions.

Grow

1. Keep during slightest the single plant alive in your bedroom
2. Start learning the language not oral in Western Europe
3. Join the book bar or writers group
4. Memorize all the general collateral cities
5. Discover the meaning of classical in classical art/literature/music
6. Trace your roots find some-more about your heritage
7. Teach yourself Morse Code
8. Visit the story channel some-more often
9. Borrow the friends instrument as well as learn to play it
10. Learn how to turn lucid whilst dreaming

Take caring of yourself
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#16 / Photo: JoelMontes

11. Drink some-more water everyday
12. Learn to discuss as well as form the routine
13. Use some-more sunscreen
14. Start putting away the tiny commission of your income
15. Cut your hard-to-break bad robe in half
16. Record your thoughts in the journal (or any accessible piece of throw paper)
17. Eat big, full of health breakfasts
18. Bike instead of d! rive
19. Add 30 mins to the beginning or end of your nights sleep
20. Drink tea instead of coffee

Take caring of others

21. Meet your neighbors
22. Remember your friends as well as familys birthdays
23. Pay for the chairman behind we during fee booths / tip up their parking meters
24. Pack the full of health bag lunch as well as give it to the homeless person
25. Write the letter of reference for someone who deserves it
26. Forgive which grudge youve been unresolved on to
27. Give I love we gifts (gifts without the specific occasion)
28. Listen more, verbalise less
29. Do foreseeable favors before people ask
30. Say what we meant as well as meant what we say

Slow your speed, widen the ride
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#37 / Photo: Kvan Ni

31. Play some-more house games
32. Take the bath as well as make use of bubblebath
33. Re-read your favorite childrens book
34. Allow buffer time between errands/duties
35. Make your dishes instead of buying them, chew longer, as well as eat with others
36. Start the compost raise instead of throwing bits away
37. Take the scenic route
38. Hand write thank-you letters as well as cards
39. Have some-more picnics
40. Show up several mins early to everything

Detach from element things

41. Donate the little of your wardrobe
42. Investigate the philosophical transformation in story (transcendentalism, stoicism, phenomenology) as well as consider it in relation to your life43. Go on dates which require no money
44. Eradicate noise wickedness in your home
45. Free your skin of makeup for the few days
46. Unplug, in general
47. Separate your element wants from your element needs as well as focus on the latter
48. Volunteer the little place tighten to home
49. Lend someone your Xbox (or PS3/Wii) for the few weeks
50. Walk barefoot some-more often


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