How can I be more successful in my New Year's resolutions? Wondering how to keep the ones you've already made? What's up with that Auld Lang Syne song? How can I make real changes in my life this year?

We don't have all the answers for you, but we've put together a set of articles that try and give you some guidance in making changes in your life. Check out the articles below for helpful tips to making or keeping your New Year's resolutions this year.

New Year's Articles

• Make Your Goals Engaging and Meaningful this New Year
  Make better, more effective goals this time.

• 10 Tips for Setting Successful Resolutions That Stick
  You can make it more likely you're follow through on your resolutions this year. Here's how.

• How New Year's Goals Give Life Direction (And Keep Fears At Bay)!
  How do resolutions work to try and help us change direction in our life?

• Why We Make New Year's Resolutions
  Why do we go through this annual ritual seemingly designed for failure?

• Talkin' Bout a Resolution (Not a Punishment)
  So you made a resolution... Now what??

• New Year's Resolutions To Build Your Resiliency
  Consider making a resolution to increase your ability to handle life's challenges more effectively.

• 6 Steps to Making New Year's Resolutions That Work
  Tips to get to resolutions that work.

• New Year's Resolution: World Peace 5 Seconds At A Time
  It only takes 5 seconds to make a difference in the world.

• New Year: No More Resolutions!
  From blogger Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

• The Psychology of New Year's Resolutions
  So why do people make resolutions each new year anyway?

• Happy New Year, for Auld Lang Syne
  The story behind the song we all sing.

• 10 Things You Can do Differently Today
  Instead of offering you 10 things you can do to help keep your resolutions, we're going to share with you 10 things you can do differently today that will help change your life.

• New Year's Resolutions: Role-Modeling the How of Making Change
  It's not just about resolutions, but about committing to change.

• Seven Steps to Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
  7 ways to try and keep the resolutions you made.

• 10 Sure Ways to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions
  You've read everyone else's top 10 tips to keep your New Year's resolutions, now read ours!

• Making New Year's Resolutions that Last
  Can't get them to stick? Try these tips.

• Boosting Your Willpower
  Sometimes willpower is a lot like the television remote control -- hard to find just when you want it most.

• Wrung-Out by Ringing-In the Holidays: Dealing with Post-Holiday Blues
  Expectations are often not met, loneliness is intensified in the absence of family and friends, stepfamilies must cook up complicated schedules, and relaxation is out of the question.

Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 1 Jan 2012
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