New Year’s Resolution Generator
Get concrete New Year’s resolution ideas — health, money, learning, people, home or free time — each with a first step.
About this tool
Stuck for a New Year’s resolution? Draw random ideas from 48 concrete resolutions in six areas: health and sleep, money, learning, family and friends, home and everyday life, and free time and well-being. Each one is specific enough to check off, and you can show a small first step you can take this week. Get up to 8 different suggestions at a time.
Frequently asked questions
48 original resolutions, eight in each of six areas: health and sleep (a 30-minute walk five days a week), money (saving automatically on payday), learning (one book a month), family and friends (calling someone once a week), home (a 15-minute tidy-up every evening) and free time (one screen-free evening a week).
A goal is easier to start when it is specific and you know what to do first. The SMART criteria, first described by George T. Doran in Management Review in 1981, ask for goals that are specific, measurable, assignable, realistic and time-related. Every suggestion here has a number or a fixed routine, and the first step is something small you can do this week. Choose “No” under first step to see the resolutions alone.
Write it down, put the first step in your calendar and decide when you will check your progress — for example the first Sunday of every month. Pick one or two resolutions rather than many, and make them small enough that you can do them on a busy day.
Not in one draw — each click gives up to 8 different resolutions. A new click starts a fresh draw. Choose a single area to narrow the list to the eight resolutions in that area.
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