Welcome to the New Year Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox and Mom Does Reviews!
Last night we said a hearty, “Goodbye” to 2025, quite possibly along with a wish for the door not to hit its ass on the way out. So long, 2025, it has not been good to know you. From a personal standpoint, this past year has been a good one – even though that has often felt precarious in one way or another. We’re all healthy, we’re happy together, Hecate, George, Luna and Tuna are all doing fine, but the world as a whole has been a hot mess – and not in a fun, fictional way.
Speaking of fun, fictional ways to look forward, my 2026 Most Anticipated Books list will be posted tomorrow. Because the way the year starts at Chez Reading Reality is a look forward to the year ahead. Also a lot of video gaming on the holiday. (We’re playing Diablo IV and it’s working for us as both a game and a metaphor. I love a good two-fer!)
On this first day of the new year, it’s so tempting to set a New Year’s resolution or two. Tempting but no, at least not for me. Telling myself I “should” do something is generally a guarantee that I won’t get it done – or at least not done promptly. What about you? Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Do you just resolve to keep doing the good things you’re already doing? Or do you just wait until the end of the year, backdate the good stuff you’ve done and call them your resolutions for the year?
Whether you do or you don’t, please resolve to answer the question in the RafflePress for your chance at Reading Reality’s usual prize, the winner’s choice of a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in Books!
Happy New Year!
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I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions anymore because they never work for me.
I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions. If I set them I never do them, so why bother.
Have a wonderful New Year!
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I don’t do resolutions. I don’t keep them so I don’t bother.
I don’t do resolutions.
I don;t both with resolutions
I never make resolutions, I find them mentally controlling which is something I don’t want to do to myself.
I’d rather set goals for myself, it’s more realistic.
I never make them.
I did not do one
I have never made any, so I don’t really feel any particular way about them. My goals are almost always longer out than a year & it doesn’t make sense for me to wait to start or stop by a particular time frame.
I never make them anymore.
I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions.
don’t care
Never understood them or did them. Why make promises that you’re not going to keep.
I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions; they seem like a lot of pressure to do something you could do because you want to make your life better.
I do not make them. Instead work on things throughout the year as they come up.
I don’t make them. Why set yourself up to fail?
I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. They don’t work for me.
I think it’s good to reflect on what you can do better, but not necessarily a resolution.
I don’t do resolutions. I try to live every day the way I should.
I do not make them.
I don’t do one. I set goals and do them as the year goes along.
I gave up making them years ago. They never last too long!
I don’t make New Years resolutions.
I made a few small resolutions this year, but I don’t normally make them.
I don’t do resolutions anymore. Maybe a goal or two. Things I want to work on.
I don’t really make any resolutions, but if others want to I have no problem with others doing so.
Hi! I don’t make any new years resolutions, I try to establish goals when I want / need something. But not only at the beginning of the year.
I don’t make them but if they help other people, great!
I make resolutions all year long but rarely keep them.
I’ve never really been into it.
I don’t do resolutions because I end up not doing them.