What Will You Do Differently in 2010?

Let other Real Simple readers’ resolutions inspire you to have a saner new year.

 
Not a thing! This past year has been a tremendous year of personal and professional growth. I have explored my baggage, learned to set boundaries, and achieved some important goals. It is so nice that I’m finally at a point in my life where I do not feel like I am working on something.
Crystal Clancy
Lakeville, Minnesota
 
I’m going to put my husband first. We each work two jobs and have family, volunteer, and social commitments, so we’re exhausted at the end of the day. He deserves the best of me―not what’s left over after I’m done with everything else.
Alyssa Rae C. Tillier
Cranston, Rhode Island
 
I am a planner, a list maker, and a do-things-by-the-book kind of gal. This year I am going to throw all that stuff out and just focus on the present.
Sarah Heaton
Spring Valley, California
 
I will not let one opportunity pass to tell those I love how I feel about them.
Dorian B. Swaney
Columbia, South Carolina
 
My doctor wants me to reduce my caffeine consumption to one cup per day. To make this cutback easier, I’m going to savor that coffee from a pretty china cup while sitting at my kitchen table instead of rushing about drinking it from a paper cup.
Nina Garcia
Oakland, California
 
Nothing. I’ll continue to get serious about my diet starting Monday, then blow it the first time I have dinner with the girls. I’ll buy the shoes I don’t need, the dress I won’t wear, and the workout videos I won’t use. I’ll continue to drink too much coffee and eat too many French fries. I’ll live for today, forget the past, and make the same mistakes―and I will love every second of it, because my flaws make me me!
Emily M. Harrigan
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 
Change hundreds of diapers. Fold clean onesies. Get far less than my normal eight hours of sleep. And love my first baby beyond what words can say.
Jenn Salsgiver
Colcord, Oklahoma