First off, Happy New Year! I hope 2017 is a terrific, wondrous year for ALL of you.
Do any of you have resolutions for 2017? I guess I should actually ask, did you make 2017 New Year’s resolutions – and if so, have you already broken them?
I know the above sounds pretty negative, so let me instead ask if you make New Year’s resolutions and, if you do make them, are you able to keep them?
Every year I resolve to stick to a healthy diet – but, depending on how many Christmas cookies we have in our house, I rarely make it through the first week in January before I veer off my healthy eating resolution. (Or sometimes, January 2 has me feeling guilty about breaking my resolution!)
What’s one to do? I guess in my case, I should simply make fewer Christmas goodies so there are less of them to tempt me during the beginning of the next year.
How do you stand on New Year’s resolutions? Please leave a comment – perhaps you’ll provide some of us with the necessary incentive to keep us on track! Or, perhaps you’ll make us feel better about not being so good about keeping them!
Patti says
Good luck, Danna, on your diet resolution. I opted to start THAT New Year’s Resolution on the 2nd. This year I’m making that resolution more about health than about losing weight–although losing weight would be a definite bonus!
I have three other New Year’s Resolutions: 1) Watch all of the “Miss Fisher’s Mysteries” in the next two weeks. So far I’ve watched the first 4 episodes. It’s fabulous!!! 2) Travel more, hopefully a long trip from our home in Idaho to Savannah and then to Florida (Walt Disney World I hope!). 3) Get my once successful writing career out of mothballs and finally write a cozy, what I love to read more than anything else. I wrote several romances that had mystery plots, but never wrote a full-blown mystery. So, I’m off my duff as of today–working on plotting. Hopefully I can fulfill all my resolutions! Hope everyone else can stick to theirs, too. Happy New Year!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Patti, good luck with your resolutions, and Happy New Year to you as well!
Susy says
Like most people these days, I tend to be very busy, thus making it hard to keep New Years Resolutions. Instead I now have monthly and weekly resolutions. It is much easier to keep a resolution for a week or a month than to think of keeping in for a year. My January resolution is to eat less food containing preservatives and fake food. I plan to do a lot of cook ahead type of meals and freeze them so that I am not tempted by junk.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Susy, that does sound like a more sustainable method than trying to hold to a single goal all through the year.
Oz says
Decided several years ago not to make new year’s resolutions. I always break them. So my new motto is “Don’t make ’em, can’t break em”.
Marianne says
Every New Year I have a list of resolutions that I am bound and determined to keep. Are they kept? No!!! I love the idea of fresh starts though. New beginnings. So, with enthusiasm and determination I have a list of resolutions.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Marianne, good luck with your resolutions this year!
Barbara says
My New Year’s resolution is to read 150 books in this coming year. I think I can it as I usually have a hardback book as well as an audio going on at the same time. No! it isn’t confusing However, one time both books were by the same author and I got them a bit mixed up 🙂 Wishing you a Healthy and Happy New Year!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Barbara, good luck with your resolution – more reading is never a bad thing! And Happy New Year to you as well!
Carol says
I read your email a while ago and I’m trying to deside if I want to try and make any resolutions, so my answer is yes ?.
First get back on track with Weight Watchers to reach my goal to become a life member. Two, to complete at least one UFO each month. And of course stay on track with the Mystery Quilt. So looking forward to doing this quilt and getting to make friends and seeing everyone’s quilt blocks.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Carol, good luck with your resolutions for the new year!
Janice J. Richardson says
Don’t feel bad, most of us renege on resolutions. I stopped making New Year’s resolutions years ago. 🙂
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Janice, that might well be the ultimate solution to New Year’s resolutions – don’t make them!
maureen says
When I was younger I valued New Years Resolutions as a way to follow goals…Now that I am older and wiser, * grinning here….I have come to understand that it is important to live life to the very fullest…Yes, eat that cookie, enjoy that candy bar…in moderation of course…Life is meant to be enjoyed….Honestly it is!!! Happy 2017….Snowhugs
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Maureen, there’s certainly something to be said for living in the moment, as long as everything is in moderation. And Happy 2017 to you as well!
Susan says
Today I started an old Weight Watchers diet. I stayed with it all day. We packed up our remaining Christmas cookies in small tins and put them in the freezer for in March or April, some later date, when we will appreciate them.
Also I want to continue the Acts of Kindness that I started in November to try and try and make this world a kinder place.
Happy New Year, Danna!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Susan, good luck with your resolutions! And Happy New Year to you as well!
Judith says
I was going to start the New Year eating healthier and trying to lose the weight I had gained back – then yesterday a friend invited me to join her for brunch this morning and then gave me a gift that included truffles! So today was not the start of my new diet, but I did have a lovely time at brunch!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Judith, well at least it did sound like a very lovely meal!
Virginia says
Happy New Year’s back at you!
I hate to call them Resolutions as I feel that is setting oneself up for failure. I do try to turn over a new leaf, as far as exercising more and staying away from processed sugar. Did ok today, will tackle tomorrow tomorrow. I try to take it one day at a time.
Virginia
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Virginia, that’s very reasonable – improving your life gradually.
Rob says
I haven’t made any resolutions yet but I do agree on eating better
and this will be easy-knitting more challenging items for relatives, friends and myself-as well as my fav thing to do-reading! I don’t have a kindle as I prefer to curl up with a cup of tea or mocha and a good book-life being to short to read bad books!
No danger on this blog! Thanks to you, Danna-I’ve read nothing but good-great books since I chanced upon this site!
You provide a great service and I appreciate your dedication!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Rob, I hope you continue to enjoy the site and find it useful in the New Year!
Pam says
I plan to keep track of how many books I read this year as I have never done this before. I have always kept a notebook of authors I like (from Fantastic Fiction website) and just marked them off as I read them and kept a running list of stand alone books I’ve read. I also plan to continue exercising to keep my weight where it is. As to eating, more healthy food, but will enjoy a piece of chocolate–leftover from Christmas gifts–a day! I still have a couple of sweets to eat leftover from Christmas but will do so “in moderation”!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Pam, that seems like a good idea for a resolution – keeping track of books shouldn’t be too hard.
KG says
I tend to make daily or weekly resolutions, they seem easier to keep. Most of my resolutions have to do with cleaning and organizing.
I did make one yearly resolution and that is I want to read 125 books this year.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
KG, that’s quite a goal for the year! And daily/weekly resolutions do seem to make more sense, as they don’t have the same sort of oppressive feeling as a full year resolution.