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.

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[SaxxonWoods]

I always set monthly and annual goals. Just completed December's goal of 3000 pushups, an easy one, I go as high as 5,000 some months. Next month on the physical level will be arms and stomach attention, got to keep rotating body areas for work. Walking/jogging is every month. Another goal this year will be mental work, a meditation schedule. I neglected that one last year, time to get back with it. I'm much more productive and "level" when I'm meditating on a regular basis, even if just 20 minutes a day.

Best wishes to everyone for a successful and happy 2026!

[SaxxonWoods]

Whoops, some of that at the top is my writing, not from the article.

[Ge0ffrey]

“To do more for the environment”?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

1. To Save Money (52%)
2. To Eat Healthier (46%)
3. To Exercise More (42%)
4. To Lose Weight (37%)
5. To Spend More Time with Family and Friends (33%)
6. To Quit Smoking (22%)
7. To Reduce Spending on Living Expenses (21%)
8. To Spend Less Time on Social Media (19%)
9. To Do More for the Environment (17%)
10. To Improve Job Performance (16%)
11. To Reduce Stress on the Job (16%)
12. To Cut Down on Alcohol (16%)
13. To Become Vegetarian or Vegan (7%))

[Paladin2]

To elect fewer GOPeers.

[Georgia Girl 2]

January 2nd im going on starvation. Well, now they call it fasting. 😆

[Sacajaweau]

I'm 82.

To be kinder

To give back-I volunteer at Historical societies

[SaxxonWoods]

“To do more for the environment”?

Heh, I make up my own. I could write, “I’ll do more for my personal environment.”

Just checked, I have 64 positive affirmations on my list.

Here’s one more, picked at random: “Everything I need comes to me without effort at the appointed time.”

[Tell It Right]

More sex with the wife.

[SaxxonWoods]

Awesome, the freedom to act on our own desires is just one of the great gifts we are given. Helping others makes us happy as we do it, a twofer!

[MtnClimber]

To become gay:

Republicans - 0.5%

democRATs - 95.69% /s...probably more.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...More sex with the wife...”
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Everybody wants to have more sex with your wife.

[SaxxonWoods]

Heh, good one. Check this out:

Odds of being a trans person:

Europe: Roughly 1 in 200 to 1 in 300 adults [so, 1 in 250]
United States: Roughly 1 in 330 people
California: 1 in 225
Hollywood: 1 in 3.

What can it mean?!

[alternatives?]

You need to be more specific.

“Have sex with the wife once a day.”

[sjmjax]

12 out of 13 not bad.
Don’t expect me to go vegetarian!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...and they put “environment” ahead of “doing better at work”!!

Mr. Environment must pay some big bucks.

[No name given]

I’m with you on this one.

[No name given]

And RINOs.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Everything I need comes to me without effort at the appointed time.”

So you are moving to NYC and going on the dole?

[Veto!]

4. “Try to lose weight” would probably kill me.
I need to substitute: “Don’t forget to eat”.

8. “Less social media” Is a great idea. On paper. Not going t0 happen, at least til Spring when the weather is nice enough to go out.

12. I would have a hard time cutting down on alcohol. Drank one glass of Chardonnay every nigh for years, but recent health condition requires a med that I can’t take if I drink booze. Kombucha is nice. It does have 0.06 percent alcohol, but my friend who leads largest AA group in town says that’s OK.

As for 13, I have two vegetarian and vegan friends and they are extremely healthy, both of them are tall and slim and walk five miles a day. (They don’tknow each other.) But I love pasture raised eggs and chicken thighs. Don’t eat pork or beef though.

9, Doing more for the environment is, IMHO, back-assward. Seems to me we should do less and let it be what it is.