New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals

Setting successful goals for yourself requires asking the right questions. Too often, we rush to create our list of goals without investing any time at all into thinking about where those answers should come from. I know this because I’ve been there and spent much of my life setting goals the wrong way, without any base or foundation.

Now is a good time to plan ahead for gardening. Order seeds and plants for the spring season. It doesn't matter whether you grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, or something else -- it's all good.

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Walking Audit or "Neighborhood Walk"

A Walking Audit is a technical term that could be more easily described as a Neighborhood Walk. A Walking Audit is the opportunity to gather a group of people and experience a community or neighborhood together. This simple activity is an opportunity to look and talk about our neighborhoods through a shared experience. A walking audit requires very little initial effort and is the next smallest step each of us can undertake in our community.

* How to Host a Neighborhood Walk
* Some Questions to Start the Conversation

This is a good project for anyone with goals like "walk (distance or frequency)," "spend X hours outdoors," "improve community," or "participate in local activism."

This list of 7 questions invites you to consider your beliefs and how to manifest them in the coming year. While you can use these to choose resolutions or other goals, this list is more angled toward folks who prefer the "intention" or "theme" approaches. They lend themselves well to discussion and contemplation, not quick answers or trackable goals.

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Having offered journals and planners to buy or to print at home, it seems useful to cover related supplies. This post covers pens, markers, pencils, inks, and a few extras. Understand that the physical experience of writing is a big appeal with recordkeeping on paper, so pay attention to the handfeel of what you use. Also, many people in this activity are highly visual, with an interest in color-coding and/or using a set of symbols to store information. For this reason, they often want multiple colors. Another reason for variety is when you do different things in your journal -- writing, drawing, filling in areas of color, etc. A good handwriting pen may not excel at coloring in spaces and vice versa, so you might need different ones for each task.

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Now that we've reached January 1, there are enough posts about resolutions for 2025 to make a separate list of the new ones. You can also find some in 2025 New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals. These are just random lists of whatever resolutions stamped with 2025. And remember, you don't have to set your goals all at once -- you can throw in new ones if you see anything that looks cool on someone else's list, which is a key reason for sharing our lists.

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Now is the time folks are making their New Year's resolutions or other goals for 2025. People vary in how they like to pursue their goals and what helps them keep on track. Some want others to provide accountability. Others just want moral support and the company of friends doing similar things. Some like having a place to track their progress online, share it with friends, and watch what others are doing. This post provides a place where you can seek any of these. It's okay if you need a certain amount of pressure for success.

Don't want accountability at all, just opportunities? That's okay too; you can just skip this post and look for other resources that suit your needs, like the one about alternatives.

Read on for some ideas...

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These are some ideas for New Year's resolutions and other goals for families. Some are for couples, others for families with children, for eclectic families, and so on. They tend toward activities meant to be done together.

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