Resolutions.... Do You Keep A Track Of Them?

If I will make one I think being sensitive is one thing that I would try not to be. I am sensitive and this sometimes brings me to tears and be sad. I would want to be cheerful, happy and smiling always. But I think I am not so ready to write it down on my resolution's list As I know I'm just going to break it. As soon I realized I am breaking my resolutions, I've decided not to make a list anymore. Maybe one day I will be ready to make one too. I am pretty sure I'm included in that 198 counts of your success.

Hi Bhai! You always make me smile when you write " Hi Behen!"I stopped having resolutions a long time ago. Once it was to write with my left hand and print with my right. I hated my printing with my left but then I started doing crosswords and it improved. so I stopped. Now I can't even think about what to promise to do! As for sad posts. Please, please email me if you ever feel sad and need to talk, You were there for me, I Need to be there for you. Promise me you will not suffer a sadness Without me! If you promise me, it Will make me smile. It would Truly hurt me to Not know if you are ill or sad!

I use to make resolution when I was a kid. But when I grow up I came to know that it's all crap...(opps no offense meant and dang!...you are not allowed to post a rude response on my comment -hehehe) Nah- honestly, I stopped about resolution as I grow up. Why the need of resolution when we can live our life like it's always the last day. Doing all the good things whenever we have the chance to do so. Showing our love and respect to everyone - if we cannot do any good task for the day,at least never did anything wrong as well. I've learned that life is too short- we never knew what tomorrow may bring. So,everyday should always be the best- we can never say "sorry" tomorrow if we die in our sleep tonight. :)

I don't keep a list of new year's resolution my friend. I just hope for the best for the coming year. Keeping a list of resolution would just give me disappointments when they are not achieved. I just take life as it rolls, and do my best in whatever aspect of my life and couple it with with a prayer for guidance everyday.

Hello Sids, Good to see that you were able to make smile at least on 198 faces but i am sure i did it for 1000 times in 2011 and it gave me 10000 times the reason to smile.

Hi Sid, Let me take the liberty of adding myself in that 198, so +1=199...you are 1 short of a double ton, and I am sure you will get in another few minutes... Once we try to be positive we are positive in making and breaking resolutions, that's been my experience. We should set resolutions in such a way that will help us develop / improve upon our life. I really never wish noone should have Sad moments in life but what is the use of life if I can't listen to the pain of others? So, I welcome you to share your Sad stories - may be not here as a post- but you can mail me as a friend. As every time we are not in good mood or when we are upset, i find MY Lot is there to just scribble our feelings, and when we get an encouraging response, we see our problem with a new perspective and probably end up getting a solution. Be happy and keep smiling!

Hi namesake! Well, to be honest, I gave up doing resolutions years and years ago. Why? I always chose ones that I just could not keep and thus set myself up for failure. I do like yours though. I kind of do those things year round...not always successfully though, I admit. I am always promising myself to be more patient, more kind & thoughtful, more positive etc. That has been an ongoing work in progress and I will say that over time I do improve but there is always room for improvement. I think your way of keeping track with the pocket diary is very cool, by the way! Have a great holiday, Sids!

I don't think I'm going to have any this year,except maybe "staying alive." Now that song is in my head.

Are you kidding? Honestly no. I break as many as I make. Everything that is made is meant to be broken sooner than later. Didn't you know that sids?

I don't recall ever keeping track of a new year's resolution., just keeping the resolution that you nmake can be tough enough. I find that i usually give up on the resolution very quickly.

Very easily to keep track of New Year's Resolutions when your only New Year's Resolution is not to make a New Year's Resolution. Seriously though, New Years Resolution is something to make the weak willed feel like they are trying to accomplish something rather grand, but in reality, they will lose whatever effort that they have by March. The luckier ones. I make goals. Goals that I don't have to wait for a the beginning of the new year to start. Some of them are rather sound, while many others are just steps to really get me on the ladder to another thing. However goals have to do with accomplishing something, or writing a certain amount of articles in a week. However New Year's Resolutions are not to be made.

Hi thesids, I used to make a new year resolution, but most of the time, only few of them can be achieve and I found that to work harder on what we want to do is better than just think what we want to do. We all hope to have a better future and work toward it. So in order to achieve that, we need to put in effort and action to make it happen. I actually not really mind to either my new year resolution can be achieve or but I always remind myself to be a better me year after year even with just slightly improvement will do, and that is also consider a kind of achievement. Just hope that everyone will have a happier and prosperous new year! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I do not have resolutions for new year possibly because I have been brought up in a way not to believe in them. I always pray that the New year should bring good things for me and people associated with me. Yes. every year brings some or the other unpleasant news or information which we have to take as it is. I wish 2012 should be a good year for all mylot members.

sids: I must say you are a noble soul and a disciplined person! . You seem to have not only lived by what you set for yourself but are making it better. Your intent is quite perceptible & sincere. You'll reap rewards with such positive attitude. I am weak at making resolutions and checking back on them linked to specific timelines. I have a slightly different approach. I make certain positive attributes part of my existence. I write about them in my blog and keep revisiting and emphasizing them regularly. Of course, for 2012, I have set a goal of becoming a successful freelancer with an ethical belief & practice. Working to accomplish.

hi thesids, I love setting goals before new year. It is much more effective on me. Last 2009, as far as I can remember, I set 5 goals for 2010 and there are some who came true. Those were when I passed the GCAT exam for my Masters and the other one was when I was hired as a public school teacher. This 2011, I can say that one goal that I achieved was being promoted in my job. I am really thankful for your post about making a diary or journal to track if you achieved your plans or did better jobs compare with the previous years. I cannot tell to myself not to post some sad post. Honestly, I am a very quiet person and whenever I am sad or have problems, I only burst it through writing. I think that there is nothing wrong doing that because it is just normal for us to experience once in a while down moments in our lives.

I like the kind of resolutions that you have. There are a lot of resolutions that people have that set them up to fail and I certainly don't want to start out the new year like that. Just imagine if everyone had the resolution to spread a smile or be a kinder person? Take care.

You just gave me an idea! That's so cool. You're really serious with those new year's resolution, hope i can be too. I actually wrote years ago 'bout this but i failed, big time! hahaha! So I stopped doing this "tradition" but not totally i guess. 'Cause I still say it it my head and recalls only by heart. Hehe!

I quit doing them cos its hard to accomplish them, If I will change, I will change. Come what may, I just have to be careful in my decisions in life. Its easier to change your self when you are not aware you are changing. I rather learn from mistakes than rely on a list of promises I cant keep. I rather just face tommorow and be ready what is waiting for me,.

I think resolutions are good but for me... i never stick to them. I do good for like the first couple weeks and then im over it. Just like goals, resolutions will only be followed through if you really try.

An year before I was so close to my real online income. I was working hard since two years, and finally I was going to earn something. But you know greed is a very bad virus which if sticks to you will infect you with the wrong, false, fraud ways of doing what you are already doing. That just saves time, or will get you a bit more than what you already have right now in hand. So I started some fraud ways on the website I was going to earn, and at the end of the year, my account was cancelled. I was so close of earning 250 $ payment to paypal. But I tried to cheat and I was paid for it. That time I was off with online earning. But after a few months, my friend gave me suggestions, picked up my confidence again and I started trying new ways. I was very close to my 100 $ payment on mylot again. Same, end of the year. Wanted to earn it bit faster than Christmas. Started copying around content, and guess what mylot blocked me. They ruined my hard work, deleted my account. They even forfeited my earning. It was a very sad time for me. But now I have decided I will earn money and that too from mylot. But the thing is, I will never cheat in my life. No fraudulent ways nothing, just legit hard work. Whether it'll take a year more. So on this New Year I have taken my resolution, no cheating in life, with life.