Although Christmas just ended, and you are finally starting to get the Christmas carols out of your head, it is now time to start thinking about the next holiday… New Year's. Some people love New Year's, and some people hate it. Even though a new year means a new start. A clean slate. Everything from the last year is all of a sudden forgotten, and you can be whoever you want to be. It also brings a lot of stress: What are you going to do to celebrate? Who are you going to kiss at midnight? What is my New Year's resolution going to be? And without doubt you will probably say at least once how graduating from high school felt like it happened yesterday, and how you feel so old. While your plans for New Year's and your kiss come and go all within a few hours, you are stuck with your New Years resolutions for a whole year. However, New Year's resolutions are not always a good thing. Like anything, they have their pros and cons.

Pros:

1. They give you a goal to work toward.

2. You could accomplish something that you have been wanting to for a long time.

3. You could make a really great change, which could add something very positive to your life.

Cons:

1. You could fail.

2. You could quit.

3. It could be a bad change to your life.

Even though there are the same number of pros as there are cons, I am a fan a New Year's resolutions. This past year was the first year I have ever been able to actually keep my resolution. Granted a made 10 and I only accomplished one, but one is better than none, so here are my tips.

1. Start small. Don’t make a resolution like you want to save the world or lose 150 pounds because that is a lot to accomplish in one, that can be your life goal or five- ear goal, but 365 (366 this year) days is really not that long.

2. Make a lot of them. How can you fail at all 20 of them?

3. Do not quit. If you really want it you can do it.

4. When in doubt, there is always next year.