Sunday, December 29, 2013

A New Beginning


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Every year lots of people make New Year's Resolutions (goals) about something on which they would like to improve. Most people don't stick to them for very long. Why? One reason is that their resolutions are usually not specific enough.

For instance, someone's resolution might be to "get better grades" but they have no plan for how to do that. A better resolution would be to "read 10 minutes every night." That is very specific and easier to do. Another example would be "I want to lose weight." A better resolution to reach that goal would be to "eat nothing after 7:00 at night."

Can you think of some specific resolutions (goals) that people might have? Perhaps it is one of yours, maybe just an example of one someone else may have. Try to make goals as specific as possible and they will be much easier to reach.

119 comments:

  1. My New Year's Resolution is to stop fighting with my brothers.

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    1. We both have the same Resolution.

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  2. My New Year's Resolution is to get along better with my brother and to get better grades.

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  3. My new years resolution is to get good grads on all my test and work better on my math.

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    1. Sounds good Tyler.

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    2. Tyler you spelled grades wrong it is grades.

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  4. some one might want to win all the games he or she plays. or they would like want to learn how to ride a bike. Those are 2 specific goals people might have my goal is to win all my basket ball games.

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  5. One resolution is to not stay up so late after 8 o'clock.

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    1. Trevor what time do you go to bed?

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  6. My New Year's Resolution is to win my big game at basketball in a few days.

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  7. My resolution is to practice soccer tricks and techniques to get better at them!

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  8. My goals for this New Year are to eat less junk food and to eat more fruits and vegetables and to read at least 30 minutes every night.

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  9. My goals for the New Year Resulotion is to not fight with my sister because we usally fight the goal would be is sit away from her. Another goal for me is to not to forget to do my cats litter, food, and water because if I forget then my cat will have dirty water and litter and if I don't check my cats food then he will starve. My two goals in school is to do good in all my classes because if I do I will get good grades. My last goal for school is to always play nicely on the playground and with my friends so they don't be mean to me or anyone else and don't fight with them.

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  10. My new years resolution is to get all my grades up to 100 percent

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    1. My new year's resolution is to get my moutiplacation done in math this year

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  11. I think a good resolution might be to only have 1 snack a day; at least to someone who likes to snack a lot but also not a lot.

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  12. I think a good resolution is to exarsize more and not eat snacks a lot.

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  13. My new years resoulotion is to make it to a tournament in soccer.By trying my best and having good team work.Watch out this year soccer

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  14. My new years rsolution is to play with my friends in real life instead
    of on games so on the wakends im gowing to ask them to come over

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  15. My resolution is to be a better pitcher and softball player by practicing to be better.

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  16. my new year resolution is to get along with my brother and sister more often instead of fighting with them i will say nice things to them

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  17. my resolution is to get a six pack. and i am going to run around my house for 40 munites evrey day.

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  18. my resolution is to get better at football by training and by playing madden25 and by hiting my oponents

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  19. My resolution is to get get better at basketball. I want to make a basket every game and make good passes. Plus I think my teammates should pass me the ball moore.

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    1. hi im yourself from ct shhhh...

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    2. you spelled your name rong

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    3. You spelled rong wrong.

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    4. Are you Brayden Genzler?

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  20. My resolution for this year is to be a better soccer player. I am going run for 15 min every Friday and go to every practice.

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  21. my new years resolution is to be better at my math and to practice
    at my home.

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  22. My New years resolution is to get better wrestling by listening more and keep going to practice and I will keep practicing by wrestling with my brother and I will practice and practice and practice and will be ready when I need to be ready and I will be early for parctice

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  23. My new years resolution is to be better at math and reading.

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  24. My new years Resolution is to get better at football by trianing and practicing in my yard.

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  25. I think a good resolution might be to work harder at getting AR test by reading more books.

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    1. Do you mean DRA i was just wondering.

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    2. Sorry I mean I. And I also mean?

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  26. I am someone who requires a lot of sleep. Without it, I am quite grumbly, even around others. That is not a great quality and those around me do not need to be around a grumbly person. My New Year's Resolution is to get more sleep. I'm thinking that if I get to bed by 9:30 every school night, I should be well rested in the morning. Many times, I am ready to go to bed and think of one more thing I want to do first. That pushes back my bedtime, which is not good. So, I plan to finish up my work at 9:00. This leaves a half hour to do any quick chores that need to be done, get my kids to bed, or spend some time doing something just to relax.

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  27. My New Year's Resolution is to work on my football moves like work on shedding tackles when I play tackle football with my friends in my neighborhood.

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  28. My New Year's Resolution is to play more soccer and to play more basketball so that I can get better at soccer and basketball.

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  29. My new years goal is to go to is to see the new years ball on tv in sted of staying outside until 12;00 at night'.

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    1. That does not make sense to me when you said My new years goal is to do to is. If it makes sense to you exsplain it to me

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  30. My new years resolution is to get in less fights with my brother , by trying not to make him mad and when he makes me mad to just try to let it go.

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  31. I think that a good resloution is to run a 5k for the second time and I think you could achive that goal by joining the girls on the run track team wich I actally did last year and I hope to run on the team again this year because it was very inspireing to do and your team leaders are very good at teaching you to always look at the bright side of things and are very good at what they do to help you calm your self down when your angry but I think that is a good new years resloution to keep so type back to me when you can bye!

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  32. My New Year's Resolution is to catch the football more by practsing.

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    1. Are you Nathan Campisi?

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    2. My resolution is to work on catching too.

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  33. My New Year's Resolution is to ride on my dirtbike with my freind vincent more, with my dirtbike I got for x-mas.

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    1. Are you going to learn tricks on new dirtbike?

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  34. Hi Mrs.Sheffer,

    My New Year's Resolution is read one book and finish it instead of starting another book. My other New Year's Resolution is to not fight with my brother and sisters because I don't want to get in trouble and I don't want to get hurt. Those are my New Year's Resolution!!

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  35. My new years resolution is to work out. My schedule is 100 bench presses, 200 hurdles, 300 sit-ups, 400 punches into the couch, and shooting 15 Skylanders down.

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  36. My New Year's Resolution is to become a better hockey player I am going to do that by practicing with my friends and family. I am going to do the best that I can!

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  37. You asked me what my new years resolution was. Here I will tell you. I am a proud panther which is where you talk at assembly and we had to say what our new years resolution and it went something like this. My new years resolution is to make more friend by greeting new people in the morning so I can sit with them at lunch or play with them at recess. That's my new years resolution.

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  38. My News year resolution was to be indpendent and I don't care what people think of my resolution but anyway that was my resolution because I wanted to change a little and I new that was the perfect idea.also I am suprised that I'm bloging even thoe I'm sick

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  39. my new year's goal was to study animal's because I love all the type's of them so much and it's a perfect goal for me but on the other hand so people hate animal's so much they can't pet a dog's fur or touch a crocdile's tale I would do all those thing's and I'm the kind of person who care's about all these little thing's so anyway that's my new year's goal

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  40. my resilution is to not fight with my brother

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  41. This year I want to get better at running

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  42. This year my resolution is to eat clean. Eating clean means to eat fresh foods, not foods from a box or can. By eating clean I will get stronger and healthier.

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  43. i want to get go at any thing i can like reading write

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    1. the go was a mess up it need to be good

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  44. my goal is to grow taller

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    1. I like your goal Joy great!

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    2. my goal is to get more exersise this year

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    3. I want to grow taller to

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    4. that is a good goal joy

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  45. my goal is to read every night 20 min each

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  46. My goal is to sing better but not to brag I am pretty good

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  47. happy new year is important because friends and family get together to celabrate the holidy.

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  48. My goal this year I want to become a fast runner because I play football. My football coach said I am going to be a place that I need to run a lot.

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    1. Like your goal for the year chase : ]

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    2. Are you in miss.Reams class ? !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

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  49. This year I want to get better at reading

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  50. this year I want to get better at math

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  51. My goal is when anybody jokes about something inapropriate I say ' That is not funny,' or walk away.

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  52. My goal this year is to make 100 rubber band bracelets. I made 5 already

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    1. I think 100 is more than enough rubber band bracelets

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    2. I agree with Anonymous what ever his or her name is

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  53. my goal is to be a beater Hunter

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  54. my goal is to be a beater foot ball player

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    1. hi is this Noah Eckert this is Maddie

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  55. My new years resolution is I want to ride the superman rollacoster. In case you don't know what it is? It is at six flags. Thats the highest rollacoster there and it is 85 feet and you drop straight down.

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  56. My goal Is to be a better soccer player

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  57. My goal is to become a better singer because I love to sing.

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  58. My goal is to do good at basketball

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    1. C....O....O.....L...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  59. my goal is to stay up all night because me and my friend and i are going to have a sleep over! i think we will make it up all night !!!!!!

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  60. My new years goal is to learn sincnce

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  61. My new years reslouion is to be better at basketball

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  62. Here are a 3 examples of New Year's resolution

    Example#1: I want to learn higher grade level reading skills.

    Example#2 I would like to eat more grains.

    Example#3: I would like to make more friends in the a new grade.

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    1. I kind of messed up on my name it should say "Maggie Westerman" so, sorry 'bout that. :(

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  63. I know I posted three days ago and a follow up 15 minutes ago but here are five more examples.

    Example#1: I would like to work harder in school and at home.
    (I work as hard as I can at school and home.)

    Example#2: I think that if I work out enough that I would lose 10 pounds. I want to lose 27 pounds.
    (I would never be able to.)

    Example#3: I hope to stick to my bed - time. Not a minute past 8:30pm. (Not my real bed - time.)

    Example#4: I would like to get better at typing.
    (I'm really good it's just examples.)

    Example#5: I hope to get good grades.
    (Not really.)

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  64. Its 2014! and I am very excited for 2014 because maybe I can expierence something I have never expierenced before. And I know Its going to be a grea year

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