HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2011 and 9 ways to keep your New Year's resolutions
By Dana Dratch • Bankrate.com Highlights •Make your resolution something you want, not what other people want. •Create a realistic action plan to fulfill your New Year's resolution. •Have someone hold you accountable for sticking to your New Year's goals. With the start of a new decade, let's make sure you stick to those New Year's resolutions. If your New Year's resolutions from last year have gone unresolved, you're not alone. Now a new year offers another opportunity to achieve your goals, and these nine tips should help you keep to your New Year's resolutions. 1. Make it something you really want. Don't make it a resolution that you "should" want or what other people tell you to want. It has to fit with your own values. "Put some thought into it," says Richard O'Connor, Ph.D., author of "Happy at Last: The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy." And avoid knee-jerk New Year's resolutions, he sa
