...you have to keep them to yourself. Source

| The tip I’ve learn that’s helped me the most is to NOT TELL ANYONE about what you want to do, at least not point-blank.
| The act of announcing what you aim to do to friends and family–and hearing their approval–provides similar satisfaction
| to achieving the goal, giving you a “premature sense of completeness,” as noted in a 2009 study (PDF). And with your
| self-satisfaction meter already half-full before you start, the motivation to work hard is sapped. Essentially, proclaiming
| your goals at a New Year’s party can undermine your own efforts from the get-go.

So, my resolution is to keep my resolution to myself.

Happy New Year's everybody!

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"So, my resolution is to keep my resolution to myself."
I.. Wait... But... You just...

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Oh no! I'll have to make that my next year's resolution instead.

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you did it again X_x

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OH NO! Now it will have to be the following year's resolution...

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Make sure to make your goals SMART too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
As a psych major I have too much knowledge of this stuff. ;)

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