100 New Year’s Resolution Ideas 🎉

If old habits die hard, then it’s no surprise that New Year’s resolutions die easy. Not anymore! We’ve crafted 100 resolutions that won’t go down without a fight.

• Streamline posessions 🗑

• Reconcile with estranged friends or family 👋🏻

• Write a story / article / novel / poetry collection 📝

• Run a half marathon 👟

• Run a marathon 👟

• Do a triathalon 👟

• Run a Tough Mudder / obstacle race 👟

• Design a board game 🎲

• Brew beer 🍻

• Paint something 🎨

• Go on a road trip 🚗

• Start an annual tradition with friends 🦃

• Start a book club 📖

• Learn to bake fresh bread 🍞

• Learn about astronomy 🔭

• Go skydiving ✈️

• Revamp your wardrobe 👠

• Go to bed earlier 😴

• Wake up earlier 😴

• Learn to meditate / meditate regularly 🙏🏻

• Spend less time online 📱

• Spend less time on a smartphone 📱

• Spend less time on social media 📱

• Spend less time reading online articles 😳

• Watch less TV 📺

• Go on a short, distractionless walk every day 👣

• Eat healthy 🌽

• Get outside of the comfort zone routinely 😧

• Take cold showers for health benefits ❄️

• Make new friends 👊🏻

• Find a way to sing every day 🎤

• Eat outside more often ☀️

• Complain less often 😤

• Write in a journal as often as possible ✍🏽

• Move more slowly and mindfully through your day ⌛️

• Have more below-the-surface conversations 💭

• Be more positive, regardless of the situation 🙏🏻

• Reconnect with and/or strengthen spirituality 🙏🏻

• Floss every day 😁

• Drink more water 💧

• Take the stairs whenever possible 👣

• Be more grateful ❤️

• Recycle ♻️

• Make the bed every day 🛌

• Make your own delicious tea every day ☕️

• Make your own delicious coffee every day ☕️

• Care less about what others think 😎

• Be less self centered / ask people about their lives more often 👋🏻

• Be more organized at work 📑

• Be more couragous at work 💪🏻

• Stretch every day 🙆

• Bike to work 🚴🏻

• Eat food more mindfully 🍝

Note: Some of these aren’t weekly actions, but most of us don’t have a true monthly routine so it makes sense to think weekly and allow for skipping weeks.

• Learn a new language ㊗️

• Hike consistently 🌳

• Surf multiple times a month 🏄

• Do yoga weekly 🙏🏻

• Create a garden 🌼

• Ski regularly ❄️

• Snowboard regularly ❄️

• Cycle regularly 🚴🏻

• Go to the gym regularly 💪🏻

• Run multiple times a week 👟

• Listen to music without doing anything else 🎧

• Learn a programming language ⌨️

• Spend more time in nature 🌳

• Learn to Salsa dance 💃🏻

• Go dancing multiple times a month 💃🏻

• Read one book per month 📖

• Indoor rock climb multiple times a month 🗻

• Watch more life-changing movies 🎬

• Watch more silly movies 🎬

• Reconnect with loved ones 💌

• Buy flowers for yourself once a month 🌹

• Cook at home more often 🍳

• Play more video games 👾

• Play fewer video games 👾

• Send handwritten letters to loved ones ✍🏽

• Call family members more often 📞

• Become a wine connoisseur 🍷

• Go to more museums / art galleries 🎨

• Volunteer / give back to the community 👋🏻

• Expose yourself to new viewpoints 🤔

• Be more civically active 🏛

• Learn to cook / cook new things 🍳

• Explore new neighborhoods / areas 👣

• Join a sports league ⚽

• Explore new musicians / styles of music 🎧

• Go to more live music shows 🎶

• Spend more time at the beach ⛱

• Spend more time in the snow ❄️

• Go camping more often ⛺️

• Spice up your romantic / sex life 😍

• Watch more sunrises and sunsets 🌅

• Take more vacations 🌴

• Expand your vocabulary 🔤

• Learn to woodwork 🔨

• Visit friends in person more often 👫

• Go on more creative dates ♥️

• Call friends on their birthdays 📞

Here’s to being our best selves in 2017, whatever life may bring. Happy New Year!

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