It's that time of the year again! Every year, people make all sorts of New Year's resolutions that they intend to accomplish over the course of an entire year. For instance, some people make resolutions to lose weight, work out more, get better grades in school, spend more time with family, get a better job, learn or become more fluent in a new language, contribute more to Vizzed =P , write a(nother) book, or they set goals that help them to achieve their long-term goals.

For me, one of my New Year's resolutions (every year rofl) has always been to learn how to draw. This year, I'm going to add "learn how to decorate cakes to make them presentable" to my list. lol Long story short, even though I can bake cakes (for fun) and my friends have said the cakes taste fairly good, I have never attempted to make any of my cakes look pretty enough to serve on special occasions (e.g. birthday cakes)... so that's going to change once 2017 rolls around! XD

Anyways, what are some of your New Year's resolutions or goals for the year 2017?

Feel free to describe them in detail. I look forward to hearing all about them!

I can't say I've ever made resolutions but, this year I am setting a few: 

-try harder to learn German
-lose weight- already started today with a liquid diet with meal transitions every 4 days - taste okay, and well it's more of a shake to help boost metabolism and contains many essential nutrients
-working out more
-read more
-keep saving up money
-be more social lol

Same here, I make great tasting cakes but, presentation sucks. Given, I usually I'm too hungry to have patience but, would be nice to make them look good too. Good luck!

To be honest, I haven't really been thinking about my New Year's resolutions until now. Thank you!
I guess some major ones would be:

-To stop procrastinating on work; this is a big one for me.
I know that it's bad, and I know the methods against it, but my brain always cleverly comes up with some excuse to keep putting it off. But come 2017, it's going to stop. Because of ADD, it's going to be hard, but I think I'll achieve it!

-To start exercising regularly.
For me, it's less about losing weight, and more about the other benefits, such as more focus, more energy, and better mood and sleep. This talk of wellness leads me to another resolution...

-To meditate more.
Meditation has a great number of benefits for the mind and body. I've been doing it somewhat regularly, but I've been intending to do longer sessions every night, potentially making it even more effective.

-To do some more of my own work & studies.
I'm a pretty busy kid- I make my grades, I'm in the competitive performing arts, and other projects, but most of my free time consists of playing video games, doing chores around the house, and watching YouTube videos.
I've really been thinking of doing some of my own things, such as writing & maybe working on a novel or two, learning more languages via Duolingo, learning programming to prepare for computer science studies, and working more on my YouTube gaming channel.
Something I've been thinking, though, is-
Are the lazy things I'm doing really worth it? Are the video games really getting me anywhere, or can I do more worthwhile things for me and other people. I've been wanting more to make my life more full and meaningful to the world, as I've been realizing that you have to work for some forms of true happiness, so doing more work of my own is something I've put on this list.

-And like jlove92: I also need to be more social.
Naturally, I'm introverted, and need more alone time than social contact. In certain social situations, I get a bit awkward, and do better just hanging out with a few friends.
My resolution is to get more out of my comfort zone and get more comfortable in my own skin. I want to make a few more friends and interact more with the ones I do have. If I'm going to be a famous actor/YouTuber someday, I'm gonna need to be a bit less introverted!

I wish the rest of you the best luck on your all's resolutions!

I am going to exercise more, stop being such a doormat, and try to freaking find something I enjoy, and really try to find something to do with my life.

I had thought of a couple...

This should be a fun list.

#1 - Flirt less - This is the big ticket item that I really need to change. My girlfriend has been 100% supportive of me these past two years, and I need to give her 100%. I flirt with other people because it's the easiest way for me to socialize with other men and women. Everyone likes a compliment, on some level, and flirting isn't that different. I am not trying to cut it out entirely, but now, it will be limited to only my closest friends, and will hopefully no longer be used to build a relationship. In addition to being the most important, I perceive this to be my most difficult resolution. It's hard to change things on a natural level.

#2 - Exercise more - My girlfriend got me a FitBit Charge 2. Since getting it, I've been moving around more. With more moving around, I know this goal is very much achievable. If anyone else uses FitBit and wants to get fit with me, let me know, and we can PM each other our FitBit profiles and friend each other. Really excited to work out in 2017.

#3 - Study more - This next semester is my make or break semester as a biology major, I feel. It's not that I have a singular hard course, like Physics, but more that I have a ton of my science based courses, and little time off in between. So it's on me to use my free-time more efficiently to pass next semester. I can do it, I just need to motivate myself.

I don't believe in making these lists too long. The rest of my goals are relatively minor.

1. Start to learn about how to not get distracted while working cause this year, i've been delaying a lot of releases cause i keep getting distracted by YouTube stuff so I can't finish my projects, and it needs to stop in 2k17 no matter what!
2. Start studying more cause chemistry is hard af fam!
3. Start ballin again. I've stopped playin basketball this year cause the court is too far (my middle school was near the court so i played a lot back then, but now, im on high school and its way too far away from the court so i kinda retired, but u wanna play again cause i've been gaining weight like maaaad)

I have a few things I'd like to accomplish, but I hadn't considered making them new year's resolutions. I guess I could do that since I plan on doing them next year anyway.

There are several things I want to accomplish, but the two major ones I'll list here.
First I plan to find a workaround for my current situation keeping me from getting the resources I need to complete some of my game development projects. As a second half to that I'd like to add finishing two games this year since I already have such a big jump on two of them as is, and another smaller (likely nonprofit D: lol) one set in the works until I can get the resources I need to begin work on the others once more.

As for the second one, I plan to reach an advanced level in my study of Japanese, in reading, writing, and speaking. This should be the easier of the two I think since it's laid out for me step by step, as opposed to making these games, where I have to figure it all out myself.

As a high schooler, I have a few ideas.

- To procrastinate less... eventually
- To write more reviews on Vizzed to help improve writing (might make essays easier)
- To learn the PokeRap
- To keep my grades on top
- To learn more jokes to keep things fresh


...That should do good for now.

What do you mean it's already the 6th day of 2017?  Well, I said I'd make my resolutions eventually.

 I have resolved to make no resolutions. That's my new policy. It's just another day in paradise. Why would it be so significant that we do anything different now when it was human beings who decided long ago that the cut off point for every year occurred in the dead of winter? Are we slaves to their influence or can we make things up as we go along just as they did? I will celebrate the turn of the year in August. Thank you very much.

 No more of this 2000 century being the 21st century. You wouldn't call half past noon the one O'clock hour, would you? It's ridiculous that people buy into naming the centuries in advance of what they actually are. Big fault in how people evaluate time inconsistently.

 I am never buying a calendar again. Never again. It's such nonsense.


 P3


 Death to foodies!

None, really. I never manage to stick to them, after about a week or so.

The only resolution I have is to actually start working out again. Hopefully I stop forgetting and will be able to get it done quickly.

For 2017, I want to watch more new TV shows and read more fan-fics.

I never liked watching new TV shows, I would always stick to the ones I always loved and it always took me a long time to start liking a new show. In fact, the last new show that I started watching consistently before now came out all the way back in 2012.

Since christmas, I started watching My Little Pony for some reason, and started liking that and thanks to that I also started getting into two other shows including The Man from the High Castle, so throughout 2017 my goal is to at least watch one episode from 10 different shows that I haven't seen before.

Before Christmas I also never read fan-fics but now I love them, so my goal for fan-fics is to read at least 20 different complete ones this year.

I don't have much. I mean, I want to get into shape, and I want to be happier. But I feel like I need a partner to motivate me to get to those goals. 

I didn't really make any official resolutions for this year but my main goals are to make more time for God and the people He has put into my life, and to break some of the habits I've had for far too long. A lot of them are hard to notice which is why it's been so difficult.

I'm also hoping to develop a better work ethic for school. I get good grades but I often don't do very well on tests because I put off studying or don't commit to it enough each day.

Yuna1000 : Salutations, Fair Lady Yuna. I resolve to be much more open-hearted and active on our lovely community, while respecting the opinions of those around me, while becoming more pleasant than I normally am. I wish to dedicate more time to this humble website, and make everyone smile! I'm happy to serve. Thank you all, especially Yuna and Eniitan, for your constant kindness. I promise to serve. Bless your heavenly souls, friends.

My new years resolutions for 2017 must be to pay down all my dept I have so I can start planning to marry my girlfriend!

I WIn Also : Lol, I wish that was something that I could have started doing, but if that was my resolution, it would have already been broken by now. I have been in the exact same amount of debt for a full 3 years now and I don't plan on paying those off anytime soon.

zanderlex : Have had this debt for 3 years myself and starting to get tired of having it

I'm making a kind of late resolution to take things more seriously. If I took on a project before, I would always go into it thinking it would be easy to just go through it casually while I'm doing five other things at once, and I never get anything done. I've never held myself to anything and I've never been focused and serious about accomplishing anything. It's taken a relatively long time for me to realize, but I've always been a slow learner, anyway. I'm going to start single projects, focus on them and actually complete them. I need self discipline.

Postman3 : Let me understand this: You don't feel like 2017 is a part of the 21st century? So, the fact that there have been 20 other centuries completed since 0 AD and now we're in the 21st doesn't add up to you?

That's interesting.

Also, people celebrate the dead of winter based on what their calendars said. New Year Resolutions aren't an old thing but the idea of rebirth and a new, fresh start, often accompanied by a covering of soft white snow, is appealing to some. You don't have to agree and you obviously don't, that's fine. Just don't pooh-pooh others if they like it.

How did everyone else do on their resolutions? Are we successful at our goals?