The Week in Review encourages readers not to feel guilty if they've already broken their New Year's resolutions, and suggests some easy ways to have a "sustainable life." Do you make New Year's resolutions? Do you keep them? In general, what are you hoping for in 2011?
In the Sustainable Life issue of the Week in Review, Mark Bittman suggests three basic recipes to help change the way we eat and live, David Pogue writes about ways to recycle tech gadgets, Tara Siegel Bernard explains why budgets don't work, and Tara Parker-Pope explores how long-term relationships thrive. In the introduction to the section, the editors write:
It's the day after New Year's— broken your resolutions yet? No guilt necessary. After all, it's hard enough to make it through a day, never mind a year, of good intentions. The problem is often with the resolutions themselves: Stay financially upright. Be loving to your spouse. Eat better. Recycle. Easy to say, but hard to do. So here, a guide on making those resolutions stick — and keeping the guilt at bay.
Students: Tell us about your hopes and resolutions for 2011, and be as specific as you can in describing what you want and how you'll go about getting it. That is, rather than writing, "I want to improve my grades," tell us exactly what grades you'd like to improve and how you plan to make that happen; instead of writing "I want to have more fun with my friends," tell us what you idea of "fun" is and how and when you can find ways to have more of it. Do you agree with the Week in Review that, in making resolutions, the battle is in "finding ways to close the gap between good intentions and human nature"? What gets in your way?
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