5 Tips: How to Keep Your New Year's Resolution

Seems like we need to do more than just vowing to change for 2009. John O'Neill, director of Addiction Services for The Menninger Clinic in Houston advise that we should evaluate what is motivating the change and how are we going to carry out the new year resolution.

Here are the five tips he offered.

1. Develop a strategy.
2. Keep resolutions to a minimum.
3. Develop accountability partners.
4. Appreciate the changes you are attempting and reward yourself throughout the process
5. Many resolutions center around things we do to help us cope with stress, so attend to it!

Follow those tips or end up like the women in the comics.


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