If asked about your New Year’s Resolutions for 2012, the best response is “I am far from perfect, but self-criticism sessions went out with Chairman Mao. So Happy New Year, and let’s have another drink.”
If friends and family insist you make resolutions, perhaps at gunpoint, you may benefit from this list of the Top 10 Best New Year’s Resolutions Ever:
01. I will make no New Year’s Resolutions.
02. I will make no New Year’s Resolutions.
03. I will make no New Year’s Resolutions.
04. I will make no New Year’s Resolutions.
05. I will make no New Year’s Resolutions.
06. I will make no New Year’s Resolutions.
07. I will make no New Year’s Resolutions.
08. I will make no New Year’s Resolutions.
09. I will make no New Year’s Resolutions.
10. I will make no New Year’s Resolutions.
With enough willpower you can keep these resolutions, unlike those boring conventional ones.
Happy 2012. Have a safe and sane holiday.
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January 1, 2012 at 3:01 pm
UPDATES:
“A Visual Guide to New Year’s Resolutions,” Visual.ly (click on graphic for larger image)
“‘Dream Good’: Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolution List, 1942,” Maria Popova, brainpickings
“Why make New Year resolutions if genes and environment decide our behaviour rather than free will?” Joe OE Humphreys, Irish Times
“Literary Resolutions For the New Year,” Ruth Franklin, The New Republic