How to Make New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep

The New Year is just around the corner. People will stay up to midnight on December 31^st to usher in the dawning of 2007. Champagne toasts will be drunk, silly noisemakers blown, and good-luck kisses given. But, after all the festivities are over, the most important New Year's tradition occurs.

Making New Year's resolutions!

Every year, well-intentioned folk make promises to themselves about losing weight, or spending more time with their kids, or going for a new job, or whatever it is that they want to accomplish. More often than not, these promises are forgotten, often guiltily swept under the rug, by January 10^th.

One: Make Super Easy Resolutions

The easier the New Year's resolution, the more likely you will be to keep it. You can even make New Year's resolutions in stages. Instead of resolving to get a new high-paying job, or lose one hundred pounds, make a resolution to impress your boss with a project, or eat a salad every weekday for lunch. Better yet, and easier still, you can make a New Year's resolution to compliment your boss at least once a week, or make sure you eat something green every other day.

The easier, the better, when it comes to making New Year's resolutions you can keep.

Two: Make Resolutions About Things You Already Do

If you are really not sure what to make a New Year's resolution about, or you are notoriously bad at keeping them, why not make one about something you already do? If you resolve to continue an action, it is much easier to achieve positive results than if you attempt to start something new.

Three: Make Resolutions for Other People

If all else fails and you just can't make and keep any New Year's resolutions for yourself, you can always make some for other people. Of course, since others might be resistant to complying, it is best to do this with a spouse or offspring. Instead of promising yourself that you will loose weight in the New Year, you can resolve that your spouse will. Then, if you start supplying healthy meals for them and convincing them to exercise, you might just succeed without even trying.