Most resolutions just add to the list of things that you feel guilty about not doing, but here are just a few that will help you build up your reserves to face the rest of the 'to do' pile.
- Be kind - especially to strangers.
- Eat your greens - B vitamins are used to create mood-enhancing chemicals by your brain. A friend recently told me that chewing on some rosemary can lift your mood better than chocolate, which would make my rosemary chocolate truffles a few weeks ago the ultimate boost.
- Do it little and often – works for almost everything, exercise, learning something new, eating chocolate and, yuk cleaning, yuk.
- Go somewhere new – there are some amazing places out there and even if you are a nervous traveller, like me, it is worth it.
- Read more – it’s just fun. Plus, in the correct dosage it will make you a better conversationalist and a more interesting person (which I'm sure you are already).
- Do what makes you happy – but that doesn’t include TV. Actively doing something during your free time, I find, raises your self-esteem. The happier you are the more energy you can put into doing all the things that you don’t like but need to be done, like life admin.
- Go outside – go for a walk, put in your headphones and listen to some up-beat music or a book on tape.
- Make new friends – no one will replace your old friends in your heart of course but making new friends throughout your life can help you adapt to change as it comes along, and people are nice.
- Volunteer – this one is a bit obvious. There are some great small charities out there. My personal organisation of choice is Contact the Elderly, they arrange monthly tea parties for the elderly at volunteers’ houses to combat loneliness in old age.
- Sing – Doesn’t matter whether you sound like the egg clue in Harry Potter 4 or not, belting out your shower power song can make you feel great.
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