13 Most Popular New Year Resolutions Always Worth Doing

Yahoo ^ | 12/27/2025 | Mercy Cambura

[SaxxonWoods]

New Year’s resolutions are a powerful tradition. They’re an opportunity to turn over a new leaf and chase ambitions with fresh determination. But sticking to them is easier said than done. Still, the act of setting goals reflects our collective desire to improve and grow.

You brain will assimilate and act on whatever you put in it, it has no choice! Think accordingly. I have a two page list of positive sayings and I repeat them over and over.

"I'm healthy, I'm happy, I'm wealthy, I'm wise."

I used to shout that all the way to my office every morning, along with similar other sayings. The effects are amazing if you keep at it for a month and the effect grows over time. After a year you will be a much more powerful person.

Or, you can let the negative take over and suffer.

[SaxxonWoods]

Heh, that’s a workable idea as well. I think of it as setting goals because I’ve had weird success with goals.
I set them where I think: “You’ll never make that but what the heck.” And then I do make the goals and exceed them. It’s shocking but what it seems to be telling me is that I should set higher goals.

[discostu]

I’ve never made a new year’s resolution. And I never will. If there’s something in my life I want to change I change it I don’t wait for some magic on the calendar. Just do. If you go to bed the same person you woke up then you didn’t grow and you’ve wasted a day. Every day is for improvement.

[Svartalfiar]

And that’s why so many people fail. Having such generic and abstract goals doesn’t tell you how to accomplish them. You need specific actions and reasonable, measurable metrics to actually be able to say what you accomplished.