After peeling off a final layer of wrapping paper and dunking our last Christmas cookie in eggnog, the end of the year looming over us reminds us that it’s time to commit to a New Year’s Resolution.
Last year (and the many before that), we promised ourselves that we were going to eat healthier, hit the gym more than three times a year, and finally take the time to learn a new language. However, things got in the way.
But this year we promise ourselves; we really are going to do it.
As refreshing as the “New Year, New Me” mentality is, it’s not going to get you out of bed before sunrise to go the gym, just like it’s not going to make that piece of chocolate cake look any less enticing.
And so, we have the list of 12 things we’re all tired of hearing as New Year’s Resolutions. Because let’s be honest, we all know it’s more than likely not going to happen.
1. Eating Healthy: 2016 isn't going to change the fact that everyday is cheat day.
2. Exercise: Unless you can personify a New Year’s Resolution to wake you up before the break of dawn and head to the gym, we’re not getting too emotionally invested in this one.
3. Tell someone how you actually feel: While the champagne and confetti may have us feeling a certain type of confidence, we can’t expect the ambitious attitude to last past the morning of January 1st.
4. Save money: Big thank you to Lil Dicky for setting 2016’s theme song in his awe-inspiring new hit, “$ave Dat Money."
5. Learn something new: Sorry, but this doesn’t count as completed just by passing your classes.
6. Spend more time with the family: Because no New Year is complete without the warmth of family fights and sibling rivalries.
7. Be more thankful: Let’s try to be grateful for the things bigger than a catchy new breakup song from T-Swift.
8. Read more: Charles Dickens wouldn’t count gossip columns as hefty reading.
9. Be less stressed: It takes more than a green tea to be Zen.
10. Stop procrastinating: Do you really think you’ll be able to resist the Buzzfeed quiz on which cheese is your spirit animal the night before a big exam?
11. Spend less time on social media: But how else would you know what your best friend just ordered at Starbucks?
12. Stay clean and organized: 2016 won’t clean your room and fold your laundry for you.
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If it’s not going to happen on December 31st, then it’s probably not going to happen for the 365 days afterwards.
