The trouble with New Year’s resolutions is keeping them. So if you’re one of the many who have preemptively given up on losing weight or exercising or saving money in 2011, here are five eminently more manageable goals that will help you feel accomplished — and happier and healthier — without the pressure.
5 New Year’s Resolutions for People Who Hate Resolutions
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It turns out that older people are happier. Healthland's Maia Szalavitz recently wrote about "the surprisingly well-replicated findings that unhappiness peaks in middle age, and that older age seems to bring increasing emotional well-being." The uptick in happiness that researchers measured — after about the age of 46 — persisted across specific generations and cultures, suggesting that well-being has more to do with life stage than with some experience common to a generation like, say, the Baby Boomers, or within a particular culture or country. So keep going. Don't stop aging in 2011. Next: Use Cash, Not Credit SPECIAL REPORT: See Healthland's Full Guide to Life in 2011
