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What are your 'New Year Resolutions'?


Discuss!



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I have none as I don't participate in such silliness, however in order to contribute to this thread I have harnessed the awesome power of Google to bring you the following factoids:

Other traditions of the season include the making of New Year's resolutions. That tradition also dates back to the early Babylonians. Popular modern resolutions might include the promise to lose weight or quit smoking. The early Babylonian's most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.

In the Middle Ages, Christians changed New Year's Day to December 25, the birth of Jesus. Then they changed it to March 25, a holiday called the Annunciation. In the sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII revised the Julian calendar, and the celebration of the New Year was returned to January 1.

I'm not sure how this ties in with Wiki's entry:

Adoption of 1 January
It took quite a long time before 1 January again became the universal or standard start of the civil year. The years of adoption of 1 January as the new year are as follows -

Venice 1522
Sweden 1529
Holy Roman Empire (Germany) 1544
Spain, Portugal 1556
Prussia, Denmark[6] and Norway 1559
France 1564
Southern Netherlands[7] 1576
Lorraine 1579
Dutch Republic 1583
Scotland 1600
Russia 1700
Tuscany 1721
Britain and
British Empire
except Scotland 1752
Thailand 1941


TIPS FOR SUCCESS
Men should set specific goals
Women should tell others about their resolution
Choose a new approach
Do not leave the decision to New Year's Eve


and to clarify that last one a bit

Men were significantly more likely to succeed when they had been asked to set a goal for themselves: for example, instead of trying to lose weight, say by shedding a pound each week, they were told to focus on a measure of success, such as becoming more attractive to women.

Women were more successful when they told their friends and family about their resolution, or were encouraged to be especially resilient and not to give up because they had reverted to the old habits: for example, if dieting, treating a chocolate binge as a temporary setback rather than as failure.


There you go.

Back to work now...

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Survival...

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Truckman wrote:

Survival...




I trust you had adopted the thousand yard stare when you said that...



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JonnyStead wrote:

I trust you had adopted the thousand yard stare when you said that...


It's pretty much permanent for me...Ben



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To kill more.

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To kill more what? Puppies? Truck drivers?

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ddvmor wrote:

To kill more what? Puppies? Truck drivers?



Why limit myself ... just "more" ...

 



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Henglegert Rinkerdink wrote:

Why limit myself ... just "more" ...



Quite right - a great artist needs a broad canvas...



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