Happy New Year! I hope all the wishes will come true.

By the way, here's the article I found. I think it may be interesting to us :) As today is the day for it :)

Check list to help you keep your New Year resolutions.

"Based on my observations, here are some common reasons why people fail to achieve their New Year's resolutions. I hope you will take note of them when setting and following through on yours. " by Jay White


Too Many Big Resolutions

Are you too greedy with your resolutions? Some resolutions like losing weight, learning a new skill or training for a marathon can take months to achieve. If there are too many big ticket resolutions like these, you may be stretching yourself too thin over the year and having too little time/energy left to do well in any of them. My suggestion is to have only 2 to 3 big ticket resolutions and less than a dozen small resolutions in your resolution list. Spread your big-ticket resolutions across the year so that big ticket resolutions don't happen within the same period. This is especially true if you have a day job and you are using free time to work on your resolutions.



Not Personalizing Your Resolutions

Why do you want that resolution? What does it mean to you to achieve it? How will you feel when you do achieve it? If you don't have very clear answers to the above answers, chances are you don't want it badly enough to sustain your efforts over the year. To achieve a goal, even in face of obstacles and challenges, you may want it badly enough for you to pay the price in time and effort to pursue it. This means you need to be crystal clear about the significance of your resolutions. Otherwise, it's very easy to just find an excuse to wriggle yourself out of the resolution and forget about it.



Not Writing Them Down

To be crystal clear about your resolutions, it helps to write them down. If you haven't tried this before, do it immediately after reading this article. Try to write down your resolutions, describe it in details, and state why you want it. I'll bet you my last dollar that you will not be able to write everything down in one go. Why? Simple, because desires and thoughts are always vague ideas to start from.

If you don't write down your resolutions, they will always remain as vague ideas. Vague ideas equal vague plans and that equals poor results. While you cannot crystallize your resolutions in one go, take some time and have a few sessions to do it. As long as you give it enough thoughts, it will get clearer with each try.



You Can't See Your Resolutions Everyday

Even if you write down your goals and crystallized them, you can still forget about them; humans are forgetful creatures. Put your resolutions in a place where you will be able to see them frequently. In so doing, you will create a physical environment where you are less likely to forget your resolutions due to other urgencies that crop up during the year. For me, I like to keep my resolutions in MS Outlook where I will see them each day as I access my emails.



Not Reviewing Your Resolutions Periodically

Not only must you be reminded of your resolutions, you must review them periodically to check your progress. Do you know that when pilots fly their planes they need to periodically check and adjust their flight path due to prevailing, changing air conditions? It's the same with achieving resolutions. If you didn't go according to your plans, why not? Did something new crop up during the year? Maybe your plan was too aggressive? Check progress and re-calibrate - this will ensure you stay on course. As long as you do this often enough (perhaps monthly), you have a good chance of staying on course.

Even if you don't achieve 100% of your resolutions by the end of the year, you will achieve at least 70% to 80%. That's still way better than giving up on your resolutions which equals to achieving only 0%.



Keeping Your Resolutions To Yourself

Do you know why people are afraid of making promises? It's because they are afraid of putting themselves on the line. It's the same with resolutions. After you have written down your resolutions, announce them to your family and friends. Put yourself on the line by making your resolutions known and make it a promise to yourself to achieve them. It's may not be a comfortable feeling because you have just made yourself publicly accountable for your own results. You may not want to do it; but look at it this way - if you are not even willing to put yourself through this bit of discomfort for your resolutions now, how much will you be willing to put in for your resolutions later in the year?



Not Having A Support Group

Achieving your resolutions does not need to be an individual affair. From my experience, you will stand a much greater chance of success if you have family and friends who support your cause. It doesn't help if you are trying to lose weight and your family is having fast food for dinner everyday. And it doesn't help if you are trying to be an early riser but your family goes to bed way past midnight.

Talk to people in your life about what you are trying to achieve and see how they can give you both moral and tangible support.

Hi girls.. Where are you? It's kind of empty here...

Good morning everybody :)

Ryoko, good work! But for use all this phrases, I need time to thinking about it.:)

Miss-Slim, hi :) So where are going to ski?

Hi, guys! :)

Let me join to your conversation.

I’ m very happy to see this branch here. It’s such a good idea, Ryoko! Thank you!

I guess it will help me.  Cause now it’s really headache for me to speak in English. And it’s a big problem for me. I live here and I need to talk. The thing is that   I’m afraid of speaking. I very hesitate to speak. I’m like crazy of it! I refuse to speak at all. It’s my phobia. I know that, I understand that but I can’t do nothing!

I hope, that  being here with you, guys, will help me and I feel myself more confident.

Good luck to me :)

Hi!

Ryoko, I suppose your idea concerning new words is perfect! Let try it at least!

Hi, everybody! New year holiday is my favourite too, as like at most of us. My little daughter likes to decorate our fur-tree by toys, but our fur-tree is artificial, because a real tree is expencive in our city and look very badly. Our fur-tree toys are old, they were bught when I was a little girl and now you can't find such as in markets.

I will celebrate holiday at home with my husband and daughter, it's a family holiday and for 5 years from our wedding it's will be our first New Year when our family will be together. Then during holiday I planning to go with my daughter to the celebrating in Moscow, now I'm finding a selebratory program for kids.

P.s. I'm here to increase a lexicon, because I haven't time to attend courses, and in my work english is very important, as I said earlier.

P.s.(2) Ryoko, I liked your offer about words, it's will be useful for us.

Oh, New Year is my favourite holiday! It really is :) I can't wait the day when we will decorate our new year tree. There is a tradition in my family that my Dad and I are responsable for decoration. We take the old wooden suitcase (believe me, it is really very very old, it belonged to my grandmother) where the decorations are kept. Some decorations are from my Mom's childhood. So usually I take it out, unwrap the paper and give it to Dad who puts it on the tree. It usually happens on the 30th of December.

As for the plans I am not sure yet. I will celebrate the holiday at home with my parents and my boyfriend. Then during the long holidays I think I will meet some of my friends. What will be after that I honostly don't know :)

Hello everyone! My name is Valeria, I'm 29, single, no children. I live in Saint Petersburg. I am a teacher of English and French :) Well, actually I've never worked as a teacher. I am a secretary in a big company. I do not have much practice in my work, that's why I am almost ready to say good-bye to my French. In order not to loose the skills in English I borrow English books from the library.  

I am a great fan of sports, mostly prefer watching it on TV than doing it myself ;) I am very fond of reading, learning something new. I am very keen on foreign languages, I hope one day I will find time to learn Spanish and Italian.

Thanks for creating this group. I am sure it'll be fun here.

Im Anastasia. it is funny story with my name. When I was born everybody laugh at  my parents. Pepople said that it is very strange name and I will shy my name. But for now every second girl is Nastia :)

Nadezhda is very beautiful name!

Wave, wow, thank you! It's so pleasantly to hear! Name of my daughter by english will be sound as Hope :)  And what is your real name?

Dmitry, sorry, I don't welcome you! I'm corrected :)

Dmitry, it is nice to meet you here!

Anna! Your name is my favorite one! If I will have a daughter I would like to name her like you :)

Well, I'm beginning about me. I'm Anna, live in Jubileyniy city, it's 20 kilometres from Moscow. I'm 25, married, have a daughter 4,6 years old.

I'm a secretary in the middle bank and want to find trade of my life, because at this moment I don't know whom I want to be. My education is an engineer of information system, but I can't to do anything by this trade. If I wanna advancement in this my career ladder I have to know english well, because our bank is in the international market.

I like sweets, cookies and that why I'm here, this site help me control myself, but sometimes my attempts don't crown success.

I m ready to start :)

(witout boring "let me introduce myself....")

So, my name is Wave. Im 27 year's old girl. I live in Ukraine and I m an economist It is very important to me to be experienced in English as I work in multinational company.

My favorite site is DO (it is not hard to emagine :))) Anyway getting slim is not so important goal in my life. In my opinion to fill harmony inside and to find your destionation are the most important things. And it is really doesn't matter what your size is. If you are happy, of course.

From other side, I would like to be pretty. And it is impposible to love yourself without taking care of yourself. That's why Im here.

It is really pleasure to meet with good people here. So, let enjoy life together helping each other to become smarter, more beautifull, self-confident and to make our dreams come true

What about you, girls?

Hi everybody!!!

It is really perfect idea to create such kind of branch here! It is an additional proof that useful and pleasant things could be so close! My English is not perfect as well. Anyway, I could help somebody with economic lexis as I have some practice with it  

And I hope to get some knowledge and experience here

So. Good luck!!!!

Neta, your idea concerning home work is pretty good ))

Hi, I'm glad to see you too. My english  is very poor too, because in my work I'm use it is not enough. And I haven't time to attend courses. I must a lot of rules too, because forgot everything, that learned in school/institute.

What do you think about another branch for rules and homework by english?