What New Year's resolutions do you have for 2009 or plans,goals?

Question

Here are some wise words by some wise people about New Year's resolutions.. Mine is to get rid of the blasted 40 lbs I wanted to lose last year. On my fridge I have some print out photos of ladies larger than myself.. but that didn't work... instead now I am as large as the ladies I put up on my fridge to make me lose the weight.. My aunt is right.. and she lost 22 lbs in just some weeks... she said it has to come from the head ''one has to want to from the head, it's not enough if the body wants to lose the weight and I am on those horrid pills that made me gain weight.. because they make me too exhausted for exercise.. my fault.. I want to change... what good resolutions do you have for this coming year or do you share the opinion of the wise people in these quotes?
Jay Leno
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year's resolution.

James Agate
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Eric Zorn
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Bill Vaughan
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Oprah Winfrey
Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.

Mark Twain
New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Judith Crist
Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that.

Anonymous
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.

Joey Adams
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions!

Anais Nin
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Robert Paul
I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.

Anonymous
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.

Let me know what your goals and resolutions and plans are you hope to achieve in 2009?

Answer 1

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This year is the very first year in more than a quarter of a century that I reverted to having a New Year's resolution.

It is nothing in particular, like loosing weight (has long ceased to be an issue) or smoking, it's going to be very general and all-encompassing this time!

I shall stop telling myself all the reasons why I can NOT do things, getting instead a litany of reasons why I will be able to do them after all, or at least give it a good try!

And a very good year to you all!

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Asker's Comment:

That sounds very reasonable and a great inner motivator.. That is also what I should tell myself about the issue about wanting to lose weight..instead of taking about losing weight.. I should think of reasons why I can do what I plan to do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIiBGH9sR…

happy 2009!

Answer 2

Seeing the Yankees win the WORLD SERIES!!!

Answer 3

Win The Lottery

Answer 4

My resolution is to let go of the past, live in the present and look to the future.

Answer 5

QUIT SMOKING! That's my number one. I already did the weight loss thing last year

Answer 6

Get your wand polished for just TEN GALLEONS!

... I'll show you my Potion for FREE.

Answer 7

to win the lotery

Answer 8

Well, i hope to achive not forgetting my homeowrkkk everydayy

Answer 9

More exercise, less chocolate

Answer 10

do well on my egcse exams

Answer 11

To finally move out of my parents house ... and have a job that i love ...

Answer 12

My 2009 New Year's Resolutions are to be immortally healthy; inside and outside; and to start my own multimillion-dollar sleepover stationery business.

Answer 13

I have no new years resolutions, goals or plans for 2009 what so ever

Answer 14

i agree with this quote :

Anonymous
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.