TEENS: What is your New Years Resolution?

I haven't really got a New Years Resolution but I am more inclined to just have points to remember so next year will be better. I've written them down in my online journal and I'm going to summarise them here: 1. Journal every day even if just for 5 minutes. I already journal at least once a week but I think I should scrape some more time out for myself during the school year because otherwise I get stressed. I find that journaling helps me put things in perspective and I can get things off my chest before I go to sleep. I don't like writing down into a book as much as typing because it is quicker and easier to type and find entries. 2. Work on my confidence. During the past few months my confidence has gone from rock bottom to just below average and back down again. A few months ago I asked a question on here about how low I felt about myself and got terrific answers that I read over every time I'm feeling low again. I'm going to work on this by replacing negative thoughts with positive ones. I've already made a playlist on iTunes of songs that make me feel confident and I actually listen to some of these songs while preparing to go to school. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq86e4Fhja0) 3. Though I'm not fully sure of my religion and consider myself agnostic for the time being, I'd like to pray more often to appreciate what I've been blessed with and pray for the health and well-being of other people. A girl this year tourmented me about my religion and said I couldn't pray if I was never Christened. To her I say, get lost. I was the victim of verbal abuse directed at my religious beliefs and I felt the need to defend myself. I don't want other people to tell me how I should live my life in this aspect as I am quite fine with out them. 4. To exercise for at least a half hour each day. This shouldn't be hard considering most days I walk for an hour to and from school and do yoga at least weekly. But I'd like to continue crawling out of bed early in the morning for a jog or run because I find after I do, I'm more alert for the day. 5. To continue getting better grades. I'll do this by turning off MSN when studying and doing homework (unlike this year), paying more attention in class, doing extra reading on the topics, setting a time for homework rather than continually putting it off and also to make a good study area. There's 5 of 10 of my goals for next year. This answer is too long! BQ: I'm not usually one to make New Years Resolutions but mine for 2008 was to make more friends and I totally did that. I came out of my shell and I've found where I really belong. I was bullied in primary school and now I have a lot of friends from a lot of different groups. BQ2: I didn't make one last year... I didn't give it much thought.

To go fully vegetarian for a month by the end of the year, because I've been trying to go veggie for the last 6 months and I keep cracking and eating meat, lol. I'm reasoning that I might do better if I take it a little bit at a time. That's my proper resolution, but I also have a couple of other goals that I'd like to achieve by the end of the year. I've succeeded in keeping my new year's resolutions a few times, a couple of years ago it was simply 'to have a good year' (after having had a really awful one) and I succeeded in that. Last year it was to learn to juggle and I managed that one too :) I think the easiest way to keep to it is to have something small and manageable, and make it something that you can measure - so 'be more outgoing' might not be a good one, but 'I will join a new afterschool society so I can meet more people' might be. Hope this helps. x

Be more social, and take more chances. :) (ex. tell the guy i like that i like him :P) BQ1- Haha nope. BQ2- I'm pretty sure i made one last year, but i don't remember.

Less Procrastinate lmao. BQ: lol Nope. Less Procrastinate was my New Years Resolution last year and I failed lmao.

mine would be to find a summer job and get a car lol but thats dreamin big ha

to know what my career job will be!

Mine for this year will be to get straight A's, become nicer, try to get my crush to like me, to become taller, skinnier, and eat healthier. BQ: I was trying to become neater, but that didn't work out. I tried to become nicer, and that kind of worked out. BQ: Becoming neater and nicer.

Well mine is to be nicer and break bad habits. I'm quite a biottch only because i've been hurt many times before ;[. BQ; I don't think i have succeeded in one blahh! I'M A FAILURE!! BQ2; Umm mine last year was tooo be neater i failed :p

New Year's resolutions are a fabulous way of getting motivated, but often after the first few weeks of the new year, we tend to "forget" them. My main resolution this year is not to neglect my other resolutions. I had a bet with my mother to see who could make the most meaningful resolutions this year, and I won with twenty of them. I am obviously not going to post all twenty here, that would be madness, but some of the most important ones on my list are to become well-read (I love reading, I truly do, but often I find that I read books that haven't impacted literature in any way, and I wish to change that), be more outgoing and social (after breaking up with my boyfriend, I withdrew to the safety of my bedroom for quite some time and refused to go out with friends, even to big parties), and lose weight without the need to turn to anorexia or bulimia (I was bulimic when I was 12 and anorexia hit me at 13. My weight slumped to low for my height two summers ago, but last year I recovered and, although I am so grateful for it, I still wish to lose a bit of weight but no more than 10 pounds). Oh, and obviously, to get perfect grades because this year is my most important year yet at highschool and I need to ace everything if I want to become a lawyer. My last year's main resolution was to recover from anorexia, and I managed to do it with the dear support of many kind, loving and motivating friends and family members who were at my side the entire time. I wish everybody good luck in their own resolutions. You can do it ! Happy New Year. ♥