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If you're determined to change your life, January first is probably a good day to do it, right?

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Oh, crap—my New Year’s resolutions are suing for breach of contract.

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New Year’s Resolutions

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Resolution number 9

[new lyrics for old songs]

 

Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943)

On January 1, 1943, the American folk music legend Woody Guthrie jotted in his journal a list of 33 “New Years Rulin's." Nowadays, we'd call them New Year's Resolutions.
Adorned by doodles, the list is down to earth by any measure.

New Year's Resolutions

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Realistic New Year’s Resolutions

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Nope

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New year, new you

What’s top of your list of new year resolutions for 2016? Do more exercise? Eat better?
 Spend more time with your children? Find a fulfilling career?
How about ticking all your boxes and simply be happy?
 Sadly, you can’t simply ‘become’ happy. Happiness is often an indirect consequence of our actions and the way we think. However, the good news is that making even the smallest adjustments can help us attain that elusive state we all aspire to.

Rachel Kelly, author of Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps To Happiness, offers some simple changes we can all make to our lives to improve our state of mind.