You Say You Wanna Resolution?

Many people enjoy making New Year's resolutions, but I think far fewer actually keep them.

Here's some help for those of you who are really determined this year:

• http://www.wikihow.com/Form-a-Good-Habit This site gives some practical advice on forming good habits.


• http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/gallery/0,21863,1541498,00.html This is a great article on breaking bad habits, specifically 11 bad habits like nail-biting, procrastination, whining, gossiping, always running late, disorganization, and more. It's great, and I'm already using the tip for breaking my habit of slouching.


• http://healthymonday.org/ This site is a national non-profit health organization that offers weekly tips to make yourself more healthy. When the website opens, click on the "thumbs up" image to get into the main site. For some of us, these little tips can really make a difference.

I'm thinking of a new project as my New Year's Resolution. It's called Project 365, and basically, it's a photojournal of an entire year. In Creating Keepsakes, a scrapbooking magazine I enjoy, there is a sample of the project, which I found very interesting. Keeping one photo for each day of the year, along with a paragraph of explanation, would add up to a great way to remember a year in your life. Along the way there would be great memories of perhaps days on vacation or special celebrations, but there would also be a record of some of life's more mundane things that you might easily forget. Either way, at the end you would a unique photo album. I haven't totally commited to this yet, but I think I want to try this out, as a twist on the more common "resolutions."