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MrsCavalluzzi


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New Year, New You? About 45% of Americans make New Year's Resolutions and about 8% achieve their goal.   Why the resolution itself matters:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-rt-us-fitness-resolutions-20140106,0,3788584.story

According to the University of Scranton, the top 10 resolutions for 2014 are:

RankTop 10 New Years resolutions for 2014
1
Lose Weight
2
Getting Organized
3
Spend Less, Save More
4
Enjoy Life to the Fullest
5
Staying Fit and Healthy
6
Learn Something Exciting
7
Quit Smoking
8
Help Others in Their Dreams
9
Fall in Love
10
Spend More Time with Family

(they have more interesting data here: http://www.statisticbrain.com/new-years-resolution-statistics/)

According to a Red Bull survey, the top 10 resolutions for 2014 are:

1. Losing weight

2. Improving your health

3. Traveling more

4. Asking for a raise

5. Going on more dates

6. Proposing or getting married

7. Learning to play an instrument

8. Going skydiving

9. Learning how to surf or snowboard

10. Climbing a mountain

Have you made any New Year's resolutions?  You're significantly more likely to achieve the ones you publicize!

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P.S. When you're not on a school computer, you can watch Kid President's AWESOME YEAR CHALLENGE here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQOcEDD5hR8 :)

 

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Lego, Cav (the Lego brand name was derived from the Danish expression "leg godt" - play well - and lego also translates in Latin as "I study" or "I put together"...really, one of the world's most perfect words!)

 
luigy47


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learn to use my emotions cause im a verry depressing guy

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Lia_Love522


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I don't have a resolution but, my life goal is to fully enjoy all the time I have with my family and especially my grandma.

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Davin Shinedling


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Want to better my overall fitness and challenge my self more when it comes to academics.

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my reasolution is to study more for test and make and effort to go running more

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I don't have a major resolutions this year but hopefully I will be able to become more organized this year. I would also love to travel more!

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my resolution is to drink more water, that's it haha.

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My New Year's resolution is the same as it always has been.
Try not to die

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my resolution this year is to finish out a strong senior year and work hard when i start my first year in college

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