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Babylonians made promises to their gods at the start of each year that they would return borrowed objects and pay their debts.
The Romans began each year by making promises to the god Janus, for whom the month of January is named.
In the Medieval era, the knights took the "peacock vow" at the end of the Christmas season each year to re-affirm their commitment to chivalry.
At watchnight services, many Christians prepare for the year ahead by praying and making these resolutions.
This tradition has many other religious parallels. During Judaism's New Year, Rosh Hashanah, through the High Holidays and culminating in Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), one is to reflect upon one's wrongdoings over the year and both seek and offer forgiveness. People can act similarly during the Christian liturgical season of Lent, although the motive behind this holiday is more of sacrifice than of responsibility. In fact, the Methodist practice of New Year's resolutions came, in part, from the Lenten sacrifices.The concept, regardless of creed, is to reflect upon self-improvement annually.
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Some examples include resolutions to donate to the poor more often, to become more assertive, or to become more environmentally responsible.
Popular goals include resolutions to:
#Improve physical well-being: eat healthy food, lose weight, exercise more, eat better, drink less alcohol, quit smoking, stop biting nails, get rid of old bad habits
#Improve mental well-being: think positive, laugh more often, enjoy life
#Improve finances: get out of debt, save money, make small investments
#Improve career: perform better at current job, get a better job, establish own business
Improve education: improve grades, get a better education, learn something new (such as a foreign language or music), study often, read more books
#improve talents Improve self: become more organized, reduce stress, be less grumpy, manage time, be more independent, perhaps watch less television, play fewer sitting-down video games
#Take a trip
#Volunteer to help others, practice life skills, use civic virtue, give to charity, volunteer to work part-time in a charity organization
#Get along better with people, improve social skills, enhance social intelligence
#Make new friends
Spend quality time with family members
Settle down, get engaged/get married, have kids
#Pray more, be more spiritual
#Be more involved in sports or different activities
#Spend less time on social media (such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr. Err..except Goodreads of course! 😇)
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To have a less erratic sleep schedule 😅
My resolution:To find more time to read books
( Thanks Grasshopper. I think I needed this thread desperately. Will post more all through the month!😅)
Write more, read more, spend more time with family = get no sleep. Ever..... :-) Get plenty of that when I'm dead.
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Girls! Girls! Tis a public forum. Tone down please. I for one have given up either ways ages ago.
These days, I just try to look good before the beach/party season.
So my next resolution : To look good perpetually.
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Resolution 3: To have more restraint?
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My goals for the first quarter of 2018 include:
* Removing all my old books from online retailers so I can enroll them in Amazon KDP Sel..."
Thanks for sharing Melina. It is pretty impressive and I think most of us authors would like to emulate the same too.
* Publish 3 books in 2019, maybe even four (fingers crossed!)
To stop procrastinating and finish my books.
Shanna wrote: "* Publish 3 books in 2019, maybe even four (fingers crossed!)"WOW...
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Last chance to post your new year resolutions!!!🤗
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Thanks Grasshopper. We needed that.
Ah! The grasshopper strikes our moral fibres yet again! What would we do without you???
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Stay offline and in bed curled with a ....book? ;)
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Aha! What is this I wake up to? Thanks Grasshopper. This list seems doable..
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Grasshopper wrote: "Why do resolutions fail?Here is a relevant link:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals..."
Thanks for sharing!
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"People who already broke their New Year's resolutions" https://twitter.com/i/events/10801704...
I haven't even made a new year's resolution yet? LOL! So, I haven't broken it yet... It's probably inevitable though!!
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My resolution, was that I would avoid playing xcom 2. It didn't quite work... Oops! Lol
Mine was to help out as many fellow writers as possible. I've been doing it so far. :)
Great to see this chat again. Don't intend to make any resolutions, but good to see the others try 😉
An appropriate word comes to my mind.🤔
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Pray more and try and stop my anger at things I have no control over!!!
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WATCH: New Zealand welcomes 2022 with a light display in Auckland #NYE2021 https://t.co/Pb1XN4RW2W
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Y...
New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person resolves to change an undesired trait or behavior, to accomplish a personal goal or otherwise improve their life.
Let us try to post our resolutions for the upcoming year and resolve to follow the same. All the best👍