People who have made and successfully kept their New Year's resolution, what was it and how did you stay motivated?

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By not doing a New Year’s resolution. If you’re going to do something, start now, not in the new year. Leaving it to an arbitrary day when “everyone does something” just gives you an out when you don’t succeed. Just go and do it now. There’s literally no point in waiting and honestly a lot of reasons not to wait.

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The real new years resolution is what you started doing last year

As a huge procrastinator, it's this thought hitting me that gets me to go do stuff, nothing gets you moving like it.

I’m glad I could help (I think?). I just think it’s funny, because imagine your doctor told you to stop eating so much meat because it was making your blood pressure high. Would you wait months to do so or start immediately? New Year’s resolutions haven’t really made any sense to me at all, and I think that’s a good way of thinking of it.