1. Remind your friends, colleagues, and loved ones how much they mean to you, and what you appreciate about them. What makes them unique and irreplaceable? What’s a fond memory you hold of them?
2. Have lunch with someone who’s achieved something you’d like to do. Want to quit smoking? Lose weight? Start your own business? Go back to school? Anything scary and unknown becomes less so when you scope it out with someone who’s been successful with it.
3. Let it go. If you’ve had ongoing negative situations in your life, make the effort to just walk away. This could be a virtual departure: you can eject unproductive dynamics by changing your reactions and level of participation.
New Year resolutions usually fade so start small and take it quarter by quarter, week to week, or day by day—eg, if you want to learn a new language, pick up one of those spiral-bound index card books and jot down a new phrase per day. This time next year, you’ll have over 300 such phrases.
My best to you and yours in 2011.
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