Next year I will:

• make every single minute of every day matter
• eat less / move more (have to have a health one in there!)
• call my mother more (and not be crabby when she calls me)
• take more risks 
• send more cards (thank yous, hellos, special occasions)
• learn a musical instrument (ha!)
• save money (double ha!)

my new year resolution is to NOT make a new year's resolution about my weight. Thorn, I love your pictures one, I might steal it.

Thanks ChocolateCake, you are welcome to it.

I think New Years Resolutions can sometimes be very negative which is why they are doomed to failure. I decided this year I wanted a positive, fun resolution. In all honesty I think I'll probably be able to hit three or four pictures a week, but I'm going to shoot for one a day. Either way it should be interesting.

I might get a cell phone that takes pictures so I don't have to carry my camera around with me, but I'm still debating this.

• quit smoking
• work more on my books
• finish 'saints of 53rd' and send to a publisher
• ride a roller coaster or two
• finish my tattoos
• become an apprentice
• learn to love myself
• let go

i think those are probably the most important ones. god knows i'll probably update this list when i really have time to sit and think about it. good luck to everyone. here's to hoping this year's better than the last.

I will see more of the world, but save the planet - eco holidays: trains, boats, bikes...

My goal is NOT to lose 20 pounds, My Goal is to lose 1 pound.  When that one is gone, my next goal will be to lose another pound. I am thinking a week for the first pound, with simply cutting out the junk food, and 10 minutes additional excercise per day. 

I read that cutting out one can of soda a day will net you 5 pounds a year of weight loss, assuming nothing else changes in your diet or excercise.  I researched it, and that seems plausible, as that would be about 55,000 calories for the year.

"Each 12-ounce (355-milliliter) serving of a carbonated, sweetened soft drink contains the equivalent of 10 teaspoons (49 milliliters) of sugar and 150 calories. Sweetened drinks are the largest source of added sugar in the daily diets of U.S. children."

Just a couple of thoughts... Good luck to everyone!

Everyone can do it, you just have to make the decision to do it.  It's a choice that you make. If you make the choice, it will happen!  Wanting it is not enough, you have to make the choice!

OK, I have thought about it, and I have the following plans for the New Year. 

1. Continue my 100% vegetarian diet (been 8 months now...)

2. Continue heading toward a fully vegan diet, currently 90% vegan.

3. Continue my current exercises.

4. Expand my excercise plan.

5. Budget my time and money better.

6. Expand the marketing of my photography business.

7. Read something for at least 30 minutes a day.  (I have a TON of books that I need to work on finishing...)

This is the first year I have had some realistic goals, and I will be sticking with these.  I am not going to "try" to do these, I simply WILL do these.

I am not a "star wars" geek, but I once heard someone quote Yoda as saying:

"Do, or do not. There is no try."  Maybe I'll work on a brick like that! 

WOW.  Another idea!!!!

i'm going to take my resolution from the song "new resolution" by the heartless bastards:

"my new resolution is to be
someone who does not care what anyone thinks of me
'cause I don't even like myself half the time
and what's the use in worrying what's on other people's minds?"

Send it to the publisher, don't be a litter lout :>)