Top Ten Resolutions Not to Make This Year
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I've been meaning to make an entry these past few days on how my holidays went, there just didn't seem to have enought time. Hopefully soon! At the mean time, here's an article I've gotten from Yahoo! Top Ten Resolutions Not to Make This Year Here at Cosmo, we feel the same way about New Year’s resolutions as we do about rules — some are just meant to be broken. Here, ten things that shouldn’t show up on any Cosmo girl’s list of do’s and don’ts for 2009. Buzz up! By Zoe Ruderman Photo: Tamara Schlesinger 1. Quit your job and wait for a dream career opportunity to present itself. Recession shmecession. Reality check: Suck it up and hang on to your gig for now. Appease yourself by taking a class or picking up a hobby that will make your résumé stand out, like learning a foreign language or starting a blog. - This is one reality a lot of people are aware of nowadays. I'm just lucky I still have mine. Thank God! 2. Lose five pounds. Reality check: Hot chicks like Jessica Biel, Beyoncé, and ScarJo are proof that toned and curvy is the new skinny. - I guess that means gain five pounds for me. =) (At the right places of my body though. =p ) 3. Finally win back your ex-boyfriend. Reality check: Move on. We give you permission to engage in some rebound relationship therapy. - I've moved on and have let go and it's great! =) 4. Buy into all the latest trends. Reality check: It’s okay to be a slave to fashion...just be a slave to cheap fashion, rather than dropping serious bank on each and every look. Kick yourself later for wearing it, but don’t kick yourself for blowing your paycheck on it. - Okay, I want to look trendy-professional (even on dressdown days) nothing that will say arrogant or lousy and definitely not pricey! 5. Change your man. Reality check: While some relationship tweaking is to be expected (hey, few guys are natural-born good kissers), if the words “fixer-upper” and “project” could describe your boyfriend, it’s time to get real. - I'm looking forward to meeting him this year. Even just meeting him, no jumping in a commitment. But then I don't want to get my hopes up. 6. Triple the number of friends you have on Facebook. Reality check: Less time stalking your friends’ friends’ friends. More time catching up with buddies you actually care about. - I'm a horrible Facebook/Friendster user, I almost never update it. I just check it less than five minutes. Multiply loyalist here. =p 7. Don’t eat any junk food. Reality check: Cutting out all unhealthy food from your diet will most likely lead to binge eating, followed by intense guilt, by mid-January. - I actually thought about it this morning. Doesn't mean I'm slim, gives me the right to eat fat and more junk food. My goal is never to starve myself yet eat something that cause less harm to my body. This doesn't mean giving up junk food totally. Balanced diet will be the key. 8. Watch less trashy TV. Reality check: Zoning out and de-stressing for a bit every night with the help of good bad television is harmless. - Whatever this means. You can't move me away infront of the TV, weighing TV and internet and a book. TV comes first then the internet and book. Plus I thought of practicing myself to help out around the house - not a new year's resolution. I've been thinking about this for the longest time. =p 9. Save more money. Reality check: Let’s be honest. In this economy, we’re just happy to be able to pay our rent, gas, and credit card bill. - Again, whatever it is said here will be ignored. I'm determined to save more money nowadays! =) That is without sacrificing the bills to pay, everyday living expenses and helping out to parents. I'll just have to keep thinking of ways to save not actually cutting out. 10. Keep your number down. Reality check: Nothin’ wrong with notches on your bedpost, as long as you’re being safe. - I'm not really sure I understand this right. But if it means having more sleeping time. I will definitely have proper hours of sleep which takes me back to #7. But if this means going out, I'll definitely go out more with friends. As long as it's nothing risky/dangerous and will make my parents worrried about me. =p And definitely not sacrificng working habit/hours. =p | |
