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Forget resolutions and words of the year.

Choose a New Year's Imperative instead.

Stephen Knezovich
Kelcey Ervick, via her always excellent The Habit of Art newsletter, offers a solution to the New Year Resolution: The New Year's Imperative.

The concept is incredibly simple (and has provide undeniable results for her): Pick one thing--a mantra or a theme--and use it to guide your choices for an entire year.

Other creative solutions to resolutions: Trading goals for intentions or simply waiting to make February resolutions instead.

My New Year's Imperative: PLAY. What's yours?

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