NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS

New Year's Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year. It's a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make and resolve to follow through on those changes.

1. Spend More Time with Family & Friends
By spending more quality time together as a family, you will build a stronger family unit. Your family will stick together through rough times, and enjoy fun times together as well.


2. Fit in Fitness
Reduces the risk of some cancers, increases longevity, helps achieve and maintain weight loss, enhances mood, lowers blood pressure, and even improves arthritis. In short, exercise keeps you healthy and makes you look and feel better.


3. Quit Smoking
If you have resolved to make this the year that you stamp out your smoking habit, over-the-counter availability of nicotine replacement therapy now provides easier access to proven quit-smoking aids. Even if you've tried to quit before and failed, don't let it get you down. On average, smokers try about four times before they quit for good. Start enjoying the rest of your smoke-free life!


4. Enjoy Life More
It's an important step to a happier and healthier you! Bring balance to your body, mind and soul. Get out and try something new! Take up a new hobby or try your hand at skiing. Go to a theater performance, or head to the local spa.

5. Learn Something New
There are a lot of good, practical reasons to make learning something new a part of your daily routine, but the best reason has nothing to do with practicality — we are learning creatures, and the lifelong practice of learning is what makes us humans and our lives worthwhile.

Have you vowed to make this year the year to learn something new? Perhaps you are considering a career change, want to learn a new language, or just how to fix your computer? Whether you take a course or read a book, you'll find education to be one of the easiest, most motivating New Year's resolutions to keep.

6. Help Others
In order to overcome selfishness you need to be more compassionate. A good start would be to volunteer at a place where you actually get to see the people you're helping or at least talk to them. A soup kitchen, a crisis line, a hospital or nursing home. This way you're in contact with all kinds of different people and see first hand what a little bit of help can accomplish. You'll start to really feel good about helping out. You'll be proud of yourself and you'll be more compassionate and more willing to help.

Whether you choose to spend time helping out at your local library, mentoring a child, or building a house, there are many nonprofit volunteer organizations that could really use your help. Maybe you can find it in you to donate the furniture, clothing and other household items that you no longer need, rather than leaving them out by the curb to fill up our landfills.

7. Get Organized

Why Be Organized? You will feel more in control - reducing the stress that unchecked clutter in your home or office produces. You will have more room - A reorganization of almost any drawer, closet, room or office produces more space even if you eliminate nothing.

You will be able to find something when you want it - saving endless time spent looking for keys, files, telephone numbers, or any other item which seems to disappear just when we need it the most.

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