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All those vices you tried to hang up are auditioning for a major performance on New Years Eve. The audience is ready, the director has given you the lines, go out and do your best. Let those vices perform, let them do it with a bang, give them the stage to enjoy the applause they so desperately crave, for this is the last chance you have to do all the things you want to stop.

Eat, drink and be merry for the dawning of New Years Day will arrive with a rasher of Do Nots.

Do not eat that fatty food, do not over indulge in tobacco or alcohol. Do not go back to your couch potato ways, get up, get out and exercise. Every year millions of people all over the country list their do nots for the New Year. They will be better people, they won't argue, they will work harder, they will be more understanding and it all starts soon, midnight December 31st.

On stage this year are some philosophical musings.

One guy Peter from England says: "My New Year's resolution is to live until I'm one hundred and twenty six. I haven't broken the resolution yet and it's currently day 5. I'm doing well.

Another one said: "Write down your mistakes in the previous year (2008) and any bad habits you may have picked up - aim to improve your life throughout the New Year by avoiding your errors. I've been following this since 2000 he says and the bad habit list is growing.

Oscar Wilde said: "To never give into anything except temptation and to read more."

Faye of the USA says "I think New Year's resolutions help us to define areas in our lives that need some improvement. If their only virtue is an admission of our faults, and a wish to improve ourselves, they are worth making even if they only last a few hours."


Gareth in the UK said "This year I have decided to give up completely."


All those dreams and drastic changes need more preparation than a New Years Eve resolution.

i've never been one to make New Years Resolutions. There is something so wrong about picking that one day out of 365 to change anything about your person. And what if you fail...what if you start out with all these good intentions and within days are back doing what you have sworn off for life?

Later, when you look back, you have not only failed, but it will make you feel bad on top of it.

So there goes the self esteem, out the window on a rash decision to make a New Years Resolution.

So this year swear off resolutions.

According to a study done by Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire 78% of those polled failed to keep their resolutions. Wiseman asked 700 people about their strategies for achieving new year resolutions only to find the majority of the respondents had failed to keep them.

So give it up, enjoy the New Year, don't make any resolutions you can't keep. Have fun, laugh lots and enjoy your friends and family.

Happy New Year