Top New Year’s Resolutions You Need To Keep
New Year’s resolutions are kind of a cliché. We all make them, go into January with full speed and vigour, only to find out that by February we’ve broken each one of our goals. But setting goals is not a pointless activity and you shouldn’t stop making New Year’s resolutions. So, if you are thinking about the goals you’d like to set for yourself in 2017, consider these New Year’s resolutions you want to keep. Also people tend to lose their new year resolutions. Here, we help you stick to your resolutions and make them successful.
Set a monthly goal and treat yourself at the end
For each month, set a seasonal goal and treat yourself at the end of the month with new makeup from Make Up Geek or order a takeaway meal with Menulog. The goal could be related to the month in question. For example, you could set yourself to writing a love poem in February or swim in the ocean in June. Make it relevant, fun and practical.
Learn a valuable skill
Don’t shoot for the stars with your New Year’s resolutions. Learning French is not a bad idea, but it might be hard to stick to it if speaking the language of love has no relevance to your daily life. If you are however, heading out on a holiday, dating a foreigner or aiming to get a job in France, don’t hold yourself back! Just pick a skill that can help you in your life. This could be learning to cook by ordering your ingredients from Hello Fresh to get you started or teaching yourself to make cocktails to impress your friends at the countless dinner parties you hold every month.
Pick a 15-minute healthy habit
“I’ll go to the gym every week” is among the top New Year’s resolutions people break as quickly as they start them. Healthy living is always worth a shot, but you need to start the process by taking baby steps instead of thinking you are the next Cathy Freeman in an hour. Pick a single 15-minute healthy habit and try to stick to it at least three times a week. This could be 15-minutes of jumping jacks or taking 15-minutes to make a green smoothie with organic ingredients from Marks & Spencer.
Play vegetable roulette every week
If you don’t like vegetables, you can’t expect to start eating all of them at once just to be healthy. But the benefits of vegetables are undoubtedly real and you need to start adding them to your diet. To make it more interesting, play vegetable roulette! Pick a few from a list of vegetables, including your favourites as well as a few you haven’t yet tasted, and assign each vegetable a number. Roll a dice or two and the number you get will be the vegetable of choice for the week. You can find exciting recipes for the vegetable or simply add it on your plate.
Start tracking your sleep
We don’t sleep enough and one of the biggest promises you can make for yourself in 2017 is to get enough sleep. The ripple effects of proper sleep will impress you. You’ll become more productive, happier with better relationship, and you’ll have the energy to cook and exercise. So, get a sleep-tracking app to your smartphone and invest in a good light-adjusted alarm clock from Wiggle. Find the best sleeping routine for yourself and enjoy the benefits!
Read five books
Books open up new worlds, teach you valuable tricks and make you feel all sorts of emotions. Don’t try to read a book a week or even a month if you aren’t much of a reader to begin with. Instead pick five books in the following categories: fiction, non-fiction, by an Australian writer, by a foreign writer and a historical book. You can find great suggestions from Booktopia.
Go somewhere you’ve never been
New experiences enrich our lives and you shouldn’t be afraid to venture out into the world. Make your New Year’s resolution see you experience a new place at any point during the year. You can find inexpensive holiday options at Travel Universe and have an adventure close to home or abroad. The key is to ditch the ‘comfortable’ choices and try something a bit different and unexpected.
The above New Year’s resolutions are possible to keep and to achieve. They are goals that will help you develop as a person and take on 2017 with a big smile on your face.