Staff Picks: New Year's Resolutions

With today being the last day of 2014, it’s time to get those New Year’s Resolutions ready. We will all probably prepare lists with goals we won’t be able to reach or habits we would like to stop, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make resolutions. This week at TheCelebrityCafe.com, we talked about our own resolutions and maybe sharing them will help us stick to them!

Robby Sabbo: My New Years Resolution is one of the classics...to exercise more. However, the reason is not to get in shape, rather to watch less of my dreadful 5-28 New York Knicks. I will not stop running until they start winning games which means I'll lose 30 lbs. by February.

Chelsea Lewis: Resolutions can be hard and keeping them past January is even harder! Instead of having the common New Year's Resolution of losing weight and getting healthier, I've decided to make the pledge that I will go to the gym twice a week at least. This will be the first step towards getting healthier in 2015 but this goal seems more manageable and hopefully accomplishable! Encouragement and support is key!

Will Ashton: When it comes to New Years resolutions, I'm the worst. I not only have a hard time keeping them, but have a hard time remembering what they even are. I think my one for this past year was to read more. So there's no guarantee I will do any better this year, but I can keep giving it the fighting chance. With regards to what my resolution(s) will be this year, I guess it's a bit two-fold.

For 2015, my resolution is to work harder. Let me explain. As you can figure from my statement above, I like to keep my resolutions as simple and, sometimes, vague as possible. Not because I'm lazy — which I am, but that's besides the point — but because I like to not pigeonhole myself when it comes to my goals. With my college career (hopefully) wrapping up in the spring, I got to get ready to push myself into the adult, career world — whether I like it or not. I have to learn more about responsibility, time managing, professionalism and, most importantly, how to bring the best out of myself. So with 2015, I hope to work harder. If just to make sure I can keep doing the best I can do in the moment.

Carissa Shuman: From first glance, my New Year's resolutions are very typical. They have to do with both diet and exercise. The diet, however, is a 6 week detox that focuses on reducing the levels of candida present in the digestive system, a condition that drastically affects fatigue levels and mental clarity. I started it over the summer, but only made it 2 1/2 weeks. Of course, you can't have a health plan that doesn't include exercise. My problem, I think, is the same as most people's: it's hard to simultaneously find time, maintain motivation, and have enough energy to make myself do it.

This year, I want to complete a couch to 5K training program so that next year I can join Team FREEDOM and participate in the Free. To. Run. event. If possible, I'd love to join them this coming February for the Gasparilla Distance Classic 5K walk. This is not meant to be an advertisement, but it is for a cause about which I feel very strongly (involving mature content). I suppose I have a third resolution: to reduce stress by becoming more trusting, in a religious sense.

Tina Henry: Here we are at the end of another year and it is time, once again, to make those New Year's resolutions that some of us dread making because we know odds are we're not going to keep them. Most years, the lineup is the same for me: lose weight; eat healthier; exercise more...same ol', same ol'. And even though I keep making these same resolutions, I never quite accomplish them, at least to the point of success for which I had aimed. So I'll continue to work on those physical aspects, but I think 2015 will be a good year for not just me but for many to do some soul-searching. I want to make myself a better person on the inside, to not only have more self-respect, but also more respect for others.

Duane Allman said it best when he wrote in his journal entry on January 1, 1969:


This year I will be more thoughtful of my fellow man, exert more effort in each of my endeavors professionally as well as personally. Take love wherever I find it, and offer it to everyone who will take it. In this coming year I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can.

This is my 2015 New Year's resolution. Thanks, Duane.

Gina DiFalco: Like every year, I don’t have one set resolution. Rather, I want to try and eat healthier and be more active – cliché, I know!

For me it’s really about being a better version of myself as each new year approaches, which is something that doesn’t roll around once a year but it’s a constant thought each day.

Cheers to 2015!

Daniel S Levine: On a personal level, it would be nice if I could lose some weight. But on an unimportant level, I just want to finish television shows I’ve started. I’m partway through season two of Breaking Bad and I’m in the middle of House of Cards.

Another resolution I have for 2015 is to get back to drawing. I dreamed of going to an art school while in high school, but I decided that I could write a bit better than draw. I want to get back in the habit of drawing every single day. I used to draw any time I wasn’t busy and I need to get back to that.

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