2015 Resolutions
Make 2015 One to Remember
WHEN THE CLOCK ticks over, a new you is not magically created. It takes hard work to discipline yourself and to grow.
So if you choose to jump on the goal-setting bandwagon of 2015, you may have some serious rewards coming your way. If you choose not to… well, wishful thinking never hurt anybody.
Here are 50 ideas for New Year’s resolutions to get the ideas flowing.
Grow
1. Keep at least one plant alive in your bedroom
2. Start learning a language
3. Join a book club or writer’s group
4. Learn sign language
5. Discover the meaning of ‘classical’ in classical art/literature/music
6. Trace your roots — discover more about your heritage
7. Teach yourself Morse Code
8. Visit the history channel more often
9. Borrow a friend’s instrument and learn to play it
10. Don’t wait until you are ready – jump into the unknown
Take care of yourself
11. Drink more water everyday
12. Learn to meditate and form a routine
13. Use more sunscreen
14. Start putting away a small percentage of your income
15. Cut your hard-to-break bad habit in half
16. Record your thoughts in a journal
17. Eat big, healthy breakfasts
18. Cycle instead of drive
19. Add 30 minutes to the beginning or end of your night’s sleep
20. Drink tea instead of coffee
Take care of others
21. Meet your neighbours
22. Remember your friends and family’s birthdays
23. Pay for the person behind you at toll booths / top up their parking meters
24. Pack a healthy lunch and give it to a homeless person
25. Write a recommendation for someone who deserves it
26. Forgive that grudge you have been hanging onto
27. Give ‘I love you’ gifts (gifts without a specific occasion)
28. Listen more, speak less
29. Do foreseeable favours before people ask
30. Say what you mean and mean what you say
Slow your speed, lengthen the ride
31. Play more board games
32. Take a bath and use bubble bath
33. Re-read your favourite children’s book
34. Allow relaxation time between errands/duties
35. Make your meals instead of buying them, chew longer, and eat with others
36. Start a compost pile instead of throwing scraps away
37. Take the scenic route
38. Hand write thank-you letters and cards
39. Have more picnics
40. Show up several minutes early to everything
Detach from material things
41. Donate some of your wardrobe
42. Build intangible assets such as time-management, discipline, emotional control
43. Go on dates that require no money
44. Reduce noise pollution in your home
45. Free your skin of makeup for a few days
46. Unplug, in general
47. Separate your material wants from your material needs — and focus on the latter
48. Volunteer some place close to home
49. Lend someone your Xbox/ PS4/Wii for a few weeks
50. Walk barefoot more often
Thanks to Amanda and Sharon at Sharon Leavy College of Hair and Beauty for these resolutions which are bound to get you thinking. Click here for more information on Sharon Leavy College of Hair and Beauty.
