See the sun rise 365 times.

At crossroads, which way to turn?

Contest for next year?

Six word UN resolutions

This goes against my sustainability principles but my resolution is (4 words!) to live in the moment- Be happy in the moment, enjoy what I have, take in my surroundings, and be better at appreciating the people that love and support me!

In just two words: choose happy

Avoid harming self and others.

two words: choose happy

Exercise mind, body, restraint and kindness

commit to right mind, right action

Get fit in mind and body.

Get admitted to Stanford Business School!

I will move out of Ohio

I will destroy all alienated labour.

I LOVE YOU NO MATTER WHAT

Here Now Always True Self Be

or

Integrity, Respect, Honesty, Excellence, Blessed, Be

Convince myself I'm not a slut.

Convince Mum I'm not a slut.

Make Money. Find Love. Keep Both

Remain balanced emotionally, nutritonally, physically spiritually.

Joy
Usefulness
Solidarity
Teaching
Charity
Ecology

When inner voice says "not": Stop.

Don't be foolish; risk appearing silly.

Make effort to attach "lovelens" more.

View myself and life through "funnylens".

Consider this year proof of miracles.

Joy
Usefulness
Solidarity
Teaching
Charity
Ecology

Stand tall: life is too short.

Give
Love
Imagine
Dream
Elevate
Realize

war is over, if you want

Walk backwards when it feels good.

Clutter cleared clarifies clues to cleaning!

gratefully share love and inner peace

Tell friends about your resolution contest.

Do some Tai Chi Chih daily.

Live within my means - well, maybe

Peace, love, lust, adventure, health, wealth

Speak softer to be heard better

Find alternatives to saying "I know"

View mistakes as steps to solutions

1) With thanks for the Prophet Micah:
Live justice, love mercy, walk humbly.

2) Kindness respect compassion forgiveness gratitude peace.

3)Exploit my past to help others.

To outlive the age of anxiety.

Walk, wonder, wait, worship, share.

1) Tell Oprah what I really think.

2) Meditate meditate meditate meditate meditate meditate.

3) Read, remember,reflect, forgive, write, publish.

4) As always, think before I speak.

5) Treasure every moment with my family.

6) Meditate twenty minutes twice each day.

Take off my rose colored glasses.

Continue to not act my age.

Buy a turntable, play records backwards.

Look for an apartment on Ludlow.

Sit comfortably while eating out alone.

Get out of debt for good.

Take the road less traveled by.

Be thankful for blessings. Rinse. Repeat

PROFESSIONAL
You tweet? Don't give a s***.
One more online app; will die.
Moving to EntrepreneurLand...don't tell Mum.
Describe my weaknesses? Ha! Never again. (Taking the entrepreneurial leap; no more corporate America for this ex-banker)

POLITICAL
The good news is you think.
The bad news is too much.
Start a blog, start a revolution.
Be as fiery offline as on.

PERSONAL
Forget changing the world; change myself.
Learn to cook, just not books.
(graduating from Business School in June).

do what can be done, stop.

lean in, slay dragons, be true . . .

create own vocabulary when need be

view self and life through funnylens

embrace mistakes as part of creativity

Open mind and listen to intuition

Lighten up and let light shine

Know Myself Better than I Thought.

Tattoos, tattoos, tattoos, and more tattoos!

Continue to erase all my mistakes.

Get hitched to a real man.

Spend each day giddy and loved!

Educate the world about vegetarian lifestyle.

Publish my book of short stories.

Win more Smith Mag writing contests!

Go to Vegas at least twice.

Back to college for Master's Degree.

Pay off car, get purple truck!

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Crash HS reunion with my stud!

First time bridesmaid, look super gorgeous!

# Customize my own gypsy Airstream trailer!

Finish Old Chicago's beer world tour.

Cut back sugar. (Except Pop Rocks!)

Start bank account for world travel.

Star in porn with my love.

My heart opens to wabi-sabi.

WILL ACCEPT DIFFERENCES WITH POIGNANT PATIENCE.

Quit pipe dreaming, start smart scheming.

Hope to finally live my life!

Open mind,listen to intuition and heart

Be well, learn, love what is.

Think like Barack, Do like Michelle.

follow the bumpy path of unselfish

Act out of love more often

Continue to smell the roses deeply

Keep working: not at a bar.

Fifty adventures this year. Sixty next.

Cut myself a little slack... occassionally.

Love myself, despite my past mistakes.

Do things for me, not mum.

Stop punishing self for past mistakes.

Emoticons: use words instead of punctuation

Don't even think about self improvement!

Let more out.
Let more in.

Look up at leaves more often.

Get Oprah to notice my book.

Resist codependence but beat biological clock.

Learn to read between the lines.

Have courage to finally Love again.

Forgive myself.
Forgive old friends.
Definitely.

See each stranger as an angel.

Start dating Puma employee Ray M.

Don't complain; make it all count.

Give advice less, give thanks more.

No Cancer. New Job. Health Insurance!

Work on marriage: Not the fantasy

Start recycling plastic. Stop discarding wives.

Salvage the remains of squandered youth.

I resolve to be more resolute.

keep cool the kids are watching

Finish novel. Find agent. Get published.

Will Live Outside Of My Head

Live in love, light and peace

Stop eating cookies. Start doing yoga.

Face it. Your hair is gray.

Embrace change; imagine different options daily.

I wanna be a kid again.

Get off computer, go to sleep.

Don't wait until it's too late.

"Become a champion of out behaving."

Follow your dreams; stop giving up.

I'll smile at the little things.

Facebook less, read and write more.

Live in the present and enjoy!

I resolve not to be me.

Get a job, move, start over.

Quit smoking, then run the Triathlon.

I hope to not be me.

Expect nothing and not be disapointed.

I will take setbacks less personally

Contribute is living, enjoy each moment

Blame the hangover, not the binge

Step one: Remove head from sand.

Fall into money and love--again!

No resolutions...loving life as is!

Little less procrastinate, little more actuate.

2010: the year of writing freely.

Will no longer think out loud.

Six Word Resolutions:

*Stop dreaming about the dream house.
*No more lipstick on pigs.
*Lighten up when missstakes happen.
*Do what the stop sign says.
*Create that bomb shelter already.
*Recall all politicians, start over.
*Stop crying over stock market losses.
*Withhold those taxes to protest war.
*Make peace with flies this summer.
*Use that toothy grin more.
*Wave to one neighbor annually.
*Get with the program, er, Life.
*Vacuum BEHIND the bed, too, Sneezy
*Stop praying; the dentist doesn't care.
*Stop whining or move to Florida.
*Learn to fly with Canada geese.
*Be more tolerant of the intolerant.
*Visualize peace in my own home.
*Stop talking to dead people.
*No belly grabbing for one year.
*No more treatments for baldness.
*Enough with the rusty nails.
*Dump the 100 year old shoes.
*Find the thread that ends Time.
*Go easier on the Elvis impersonations.
*Clean out the black hole (garage).
*One push-up, once a year.
*Start knocking off the politically correct.
*Apologize to mom for mustache remark.
*E-mail "diet" starts tomorrow.
*Read one of the 100 books.
*Get serious about lightening up.
*One dinner not from the freezer.
*Admit there's no security in life.
*Make more room for being wicked.
*Finish that death poem anthology.
*Give Feinstein hell... don't just grouse.
*Don't just do something, meditate.
*It's never too late to wake up!
*Find that one original idea NOW!
*Get up once with the sun.
*Lighten up on the f***ing profanities.
*Get a grip on the complaining.
*URGENT: get the brain games NOW.
*Stop pretending I can "save" $$$$$.
*Admit once my wife is "right."

Replace judgement with appreciation and compassion.

1.I am going to be me.
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2.I won't drink hot sauce again.
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3.I will not give up. Ever.
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4.I vow to write a book.
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5.Make my family smile more often.
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6.Stop worrying about what others think.
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7.Try to make next year matter.
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8.No more waking up with stangers.
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9.Time to ask the big question.
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10.No more Bloody Marys for breakfast.
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Speak less, listen more, be peace

Break rules about word counts like

Work harder and envy less

I will stop mocking sparkly vampires

I will actually finish Moby Dick.

I'll really do it this time!

Stay productive AND listen to Leonard.

To worry less and love more.

Probably a little far away in the good old UK, but here's my resolution in six words:

I will stop obsessing over inanities.

Although if today is anything to go by, it's going to be hard work.

Write or read one poem daily

No more excuses, except for maybe…

Drink coffee before noon each "morning".
Get out of Washington, soul intact.
No idle obsessions. No dispassionate actions.

To worry less and love more.

Quitting smoking once and for all.

Become a better ME for YOU!

No more eating lunch in pajamas.

Advance obfuscation redundantly; pontificate ambiguously, often.

Thirty-year crush will culminate in wedding!

I will toss my tattered panties.

I'll lay off the endangered fish.

Another six words closer to famous?

Will go to ER next time.

No more nude skydiving in winter.

ditch cell phone;embrace sweet solitude.

Starve my colds, feed my "fevers."

give up masturbation, focus energy outward.

I resolve to have no resolutions.

I'll act more and react less.

Live forever or die trying. Coffee.

# Actions speak louder than six words.

# "The great american novel" -by Sydneysider

# Try stop being indecisive... I think...

No more assuming; ask for clarification.

I will bend and not break.

My Stories

* I am never drinking again... again

* To only make unbreakable promises. Promise.

* Start doing exercise or stop complaining...

Live like today's all there is.

Genuinely ask others "How are you?"

Finally murder this nagging eating disorder.

Must stop dating the same guy!

Will never wax my $%&# again

This year, I'll write five-word memoirs.

Friends: lost regained retain make keep.

Reclaim my life. Lose the deadweight.

Keep moving forward. Stop looking back.

Edit previous entry...a man created Prince Charming, right?

Destructive love is not real love.

Devil on shoulder? Tape her mouth!

More outdoors and less computer clicking.

Stop wishing it were Friday Mon-Thurs.

Resolution: To make better 2011 resolutions.

I'll sit through a romantic comedy.

I will stop chastising poor grammarians.

Create system to manage my passwords.

I submitted a few 6-word resolutions to the Smithmag site. Here they are:

1.More: writing, kissing, dog walking, connecting

2.Will do more "wants," fewer "shoulds"

3.Remember: Where you are is OK

4.Listen to inner voice when deciding

Csn't wait to hear the show!

Finally locate a manual for life.

Start reading the 'terms and conditions'

I won't stalk... I won't stalk.

I'll try to keep everyone happy.

Resist temptation; sustain my virginal status.

Forget mum; finally make myself proud.

Stop lying when the truth hurts

Become the Granny I never had.

Under the fat, I'll find me.

Get more than six words published.

Drink less. Eat more. *Holidays exempt.

Will not Facebook stalk old crushes.

Maybe just floss regularly, for starters.

I'll stop clicking on sensational headlines.

Answer question: What am I doing?

If possible, get a fun job.

Splurge for maid service and relax.

Loosen up a bit. Drink more.

Get my Inbox under 13,000 messages.

Stop racing through yellow-red traffic lights.

Let the yeses outnumber the nos.

Less watching, more learning, loving, living.

Truthfully answer, "What do you want?"

Give up: procrastination, confrontation, frustration, convention.

i will not turn into mother.

This year, I'm only saying yes.

Compassion not aloofness, composure not anger

Build more Leaders, create more wealth

Stop letting hateful bullshit go unchallenged.

Adore, trust, worship and love God.

Get a real job with benefits.

Multicultural epic European Shanghai novel published

Copy my kid, not my dad.

Lose time for hearing Leonard. Alas.

Last April, cruelest; this April, coolest.

Be kinder in thought and deed.

(revised)

Slough off useless crap. Be free!

Do much better in everything tried

Leave the Karmic death/life wheel.

Slough off all the useless crap.

Build a room for some improvement.

Love, laugh, exercise, dream, strive, thrive.

love myself first, everyone can wait

show the world my big heart

I will always accept my fate.

I will not engage evil people.

Advance obfuscation redundantly; pontificate ambiguously, often.

Eat drink less meat and alcohol.

Focus. Foibles. Weight. Date. Financial State.

To see ordinary days as treasures.

Live in the moment every day

My Music Will Be Heard Now

Whatever it is, deal with it!

First grandchild(daughter) arriving April 2010.

SIX Word Resolution:

"Grannysit as often as I can!"

Next time, I marry for money.

Forgive myself.
Forgive old friends.
Definitely.

No more going down Rabbit Hole.

Surpass his greatest expectations of me.

Stop using the phrase "if applicable".

Will stop babysitting drunken teenage friends.

Please don't stop falling in love.

Fewer stays in the mental ward.

Will overcome depression for my children.

Be good, be kind... never mind.

To stop living a Plan B life.

Learn how to accept a compliment.

My resolution? Junk food-free Fridays!

with creativity i will change universe

destiny calls make green world together

the way we will find together

let's make world healthy wealthy again

Find an apartment with a bedroom
California, here I come! Need job!
Stop being victimized by male coworkers
Write what others can't say aloud
End my twenty month dry spell

Refind God after becoming a Buddhist.

Thank, pray, hope;
Live, love, cope.

Fly high, never touch the ground.

It may be cheating or something but there is a backstory :

http://www.smithmag.net/sixword_resolutions/story.php?did=88584#

If it's crying, pick it up.

Dear Editor,

The following is my Six-Word Resolution: Promise, promise, promise, promise, never promise.

My work is published or forthcoming in Hint Fiction: A Norton Anthology, Night Train, The Collagist, Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, Quick Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, Brevity and Echo, Smoke Long Quarterly, Long Story Short, Southeast Review, Carve Magazine, and others. At present, I am the writer-in-residence at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Thanks,

Stace Budzko

More Geddy Lee, less Gordon Liddy.

Be better, smarter, leaner, and stronger.

Get a job with fresh air.

Once I was working, Telling story

Tough journey, Rough journey, Not tired?

Recession ends, Because Am laughing myself.

Creativity makes my way of destiny

I want tobe famous I will

No more mistakes in 2010 hoping

I am unemployed,Still Christmas coming?

Don't work out until February 1st.

My dazzling avatar will spread wealth.

I'll shelter my friends from angst.

I'll rise early and hunt glowworms.

I'll discover a new universal theme.

Never again! (At least till February).

Make nouveau feminism comedy go mainstream.

Seriously, create a rape whistle orchestra.

Master electronic autoharp, ukulele, cash in.

Increase traffic, views, hits to jessicadelfino.com.

Decipher and comprehend secrets of universe.

Learn and execute art of brevity.

Forgive myself for not forgiving him.

Won't be afraid to smile back.

Be more organized yet less detail-oriented.

When I think about myself, STOP!

I'll stop clicking on sensational headlines.

Stop hatin' on rent-controlled apartment dwellers.

Stop hating rent controlled apartment dwellers.

Retire from work, dance and sing

Stop counting carbohydrates; start counting blessings.

Slightly expand my semi-circle of friends.

Try to follow all 10 commandments.

Read anything Proust has ever written.

Reduce, reuse, and recycle my possessions.

Take fewer taxis, ride more trains

Be flexible in my long-term planning

I'll stop letting stereotypes define me.

Won't look back, will look up.

Keep flossing beyond the free roll.

letting my heart take the lead.

listening to my clock, starting family.

loving more, saying less, giving all.

Off traveling. Don't leave a message.

i won't kill my neighbor. yet.

I promise to tolerate one hipster.