New Year's Resolution Schedule an hour every Saturday to do organization. Whether it is straightening things around the house, cleaning your desk, sorting paperwork, paying bills, creating schedules, making todo lists, or updating your monthly and yearly budgets, spent 1 hour each Saturday doing some form of organization like these things and you will see your productivity explode this year.

New Year's Resolution Not just a hobby. Hobbies are great, but it is a waste if you aren't using that hobby to further your life somehow. For example, if you love movies, that's ok, but write movie reviews, if you love to write, or make some youtube videos if that's what you like to do. If you love building model airplanes, don't just build them for yourself. Build them and sell them. Get on a site like Etsy or list them on ebay. Find the right price, and someone will buy them. Take requests for specific kinds of model airplanes. Be creative.

Find a way to make money with your favorite hobby and not only will it increase your personal fulfillment, but it will also help others and help your bank account. After all, making money doing what you love is the best way to make money. Ask yourself, "what do I love to do?" Make a list of 3 things you love to do which is your hobby. It really doesn't matter what it is. Now, find a way to make money with at least one of the things you love to do.

Sure, money won't come right away, but you are doing it anyway, and you will have fun doing it, so the chances you will stick with it long enough to actually make money (sometimes years) are very high if you love doing it for fun even when you aren't making any money. Years down the road you might even be able to quit that 9-5 job you hate and do your hobby full time!

New Year's Resolution Once you have a budget and you are tracking your expenditures, you can see what exactly is draining your bank account. Is it clothes? Gas? Car repairs? Shopping sprees? Electronics? Maybe your electric bill? Whatever it is that is draining your bank account, first you need to identify it by taking some time to track your spending. You can do it during your Saturday "organization time".

Once you found out what is taking a bite out of your bank account, you can work to eliminate it - or at least to slim it down a bit. For example, if you saw car repairs are high, maybe it is time to do repairs yourself, or think about a new (used, inexpensive) car. Maybe it would be less than your ongoing repairs. Or if your electric bill looks too high, maybe you can start turning off the lights, lowering the heat and AC, and maybe finding out if your appliances are inefficient.

If shopping sprees are your vice, and now you know it for sure, you can find new ways to get that same bliss you get from buying something new that you will never use. It's a psychological effect, and it can be eliminated. You can start by stop window shopping. Don't go in stores unless you need to. Grocery shop in bulk, because studies show you buy more when you go shopping more often because you are tempted by various sales and things you see while shopping.

If you shop less often, you will be less likely to buy those extra things. You will also save money on gas by not driving to the store as frequently. You can also channel your inner shopping addiction into something productive, like exercise or making money. You channel will have the same psychological effect as getting that new thing, except that it will be a lot lighter on your wallet.

New Year's Resolution Studies show that people who volunteer are happier and feel more fulfilled than people who do not volunteer. And there are many people who could use your help and your love! Join a nonprofit which does people outreach, disaster relief, helping the homeless, volunteering at church, or anything. Pick what you would love the most and stick with it. You will be a lot happier and more fulfilled, and you can also meet a lot of great people who are as caring and sincere as yourself.

New Year's Resolution I have done Rosetta Stone and other language apps on and off the last few years. I have made some progress, but I need to commit to it. If I had, I could be fluent in many languages by now. You can become fluent in a language in as little as 3 months with dedication, but even if you stretch that out to 12 months which is a lot easier when you have a busy schedule, you can definitely become fluent in your favorite language this year.

Learning a language not only makes you sound cool and educated, but also it literally makes you smarter, according to studies, and can also make you more valuable as an employee if you can use that language at work. This might result in more money at your job, and it can also be very useful if you want to visit your favorite country.

New Year's Resolution What do you want to learn? Photography, time management, playing an instrument, public speaking, weightlifting, drawing, anything. Make a list of 12 skills you want to learn this year. If you have a couple big skills to learn, you don't need 12, just pick a couple big ones. What do you have to lose? Nothing, but you have everything to gain by learning new skills. Make 2017 a training grounds for 2018!

New Year's Resolution No, you don't need to join a gym. If fact, if you do as suggested below then you are more likely to stick with it. There are just a few exercises where if you did them every day and only for a few minutes per day, it would be better than going to the gym once a week.

Calisthenics. No equipment required, except maybe a pullup bar, which you can pick up for 20 bucks and put in a doorway. Pushups, I would recommend the Perfect Pushup, but you can do it with your hands. Pullups using the pullup bar. Crunches, 0 equipment required. Planks. Jumping jacks. Jump rope, possibly.

All these things require no gym membership and can be done virtually anywhere. Now you have no excuses! When I can't get to the gym because I was too busy, I try to at least do pushups and pullups. Just a few a day will really add up. Trust me.

New Year's Resolution We have learned that low-fat is a scam and that high fat can help you lose weight when you combine it with healthy eating and low sugar, no additive, and low refined carbohydrate diet.

When I started eating fat and threw away everything low-fat, and decreased my carb intake (by only about 25%), I lost 15 pounds of fat in 1 month! I was not even trying to lose weight. It seemed to magically melt away. The reason is because low-fat tells your body you are starving, so it converts all your carbs to fat. When you start eating fat again, you body won't always think you are starving, so you will begin losing weight like magic!

This only works if the rest of your diet is already healthy though. I am happy about my smooth belly now. The fat has stayed off for almost a year so far. I don't eat anything low fat and do not watch calories anymore. I make sure to eat fat in my diet and I am healthier for it. I avoid everything low-fat.

Basically anything in a box, can, or bag is off-limits. If it has a list of more than a handful of ingredients, especially if it looks like a chemistry cookbook, then avoid that at all costs. It is not food. Avoid all processed food, artificial sugars (artificial sugars are worse than regular sugar), all sodas (especially diet sodas which are more fattening then regular sodas), BHA, BHT, nitrates, all forms of corn syrup, fast food, almost every restaurant, and anything with MSG and all its derivatives, including the deceptive "natural flavors" which is a code word for "MSG".

You might be shocked to discover that is, pretty much everything. And when I say everything, I mean it. It is near impossible to find anything without these chemical poisons. It exists, but it is not easy to find. I had to cut out over 99% of the foods I eat over the last few years. My options are fewer, but I feel so much better.

It seems like a long list, and I agree, it is. However if you don't, your long-term health, energy levels, weight, mental acuity, overall wellbeing, and life span are what you are sacrificing for that convenience. Said like that, checking all the labels seems a lot more enjoyable! Now is the best year to start. It is the best year because right now is the best time to start - the sooner you start eating healthy, the better.

New Year's Resolution It would be great to say read 1 book per week, but let's face it, with our busy lives, it is unlikely. So let's set a goal to read 12 books this year, 1 book each month. Make at least a handful of those books nonfiction (if not all of them). Your brain will thank you.

Start by making a list of 12 books. Do it now while you are motivated. Now get those books and over the next year read them one by one, 1 book each month. Make a habit where you will spend a few hours or so per week reading. These hours will add up.

New Year's Resolution Easier said than done, for sure. And if your problem is procrastination, stopping procrastinating can seem difficult, if it was not so ironic. There are a few ways to stop procrastinating, as can be found in the post below.

In short, listen to your inner voice, get work done in the morning when you have the most emotional energy, cut out caffeine, take breaks when you are slowing down, make sure you remember to eat, drink lots of water, and an occasional nap can help increase productivity.

Read more about ways to stop procrastinating here: How To Maximize Your Productivity And Decrease Procrastination To Get A Lot More Done