I can't decide on one, but I think there's a general theme of "be happier" in all the ideas I have, such as: Figure out what annoys you, and work on removing or reducing it. Be more hedonistic. Say yes more. Be more honest with yourself and others. Have better time management. Consume nicer things.
How about you?
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Over the years I've pretty much figured out how to keep myself happy. While I don't really do resolutions, I have a plan of:
1) Say yes as much as possible.
2) Be curious.
3) Make more mistakes.
If I do all of those, I should be fine.
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Given my depression (now diagnosed and medicated; Citalopram 20mg), I've already resolved myself to beating it; I'm doing exercise twice daily in the form of an hour of Dance Central (Just Dance is soon to follow) in the hopes of a natural Seratonin boost. I'm also going to lose a bit of weight to fix a snoring problem I've only recently realised I've had.
New years resolutions this year aren't a thing for me this year since I've been doing this since about 20th.
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I'm much too young and carefree to bother with such sullen things as these. I'm already the greatest person of all the persons, and changing that would only serve to harm the world at large.
In seriousness, I don't know, brush my teeth more. I guess.
About saying yes, because John put it in his list to.
THIS IS IMPORTANT
Almost everything good that has happened to me in the past few years is because I said yes to something:
"You should write for negative gamer." "Yes, alright."
"Would you like to make a game in a weekend." "Yes, I would."
"How about we meet up in Soho tomorrow night?" "Yup!" (this one resulted in me being on a BBC Podcast about indie games which should be out any time now. Twice.)
A Tweet: "Are you an indie developer who feels like their game isn't being talked about enough?" "Yes!" (Without Rock Paper Shotgun, The Wager wouldn't have been played by thousands of people)
And so on. There's a .. not a rule, but a good guideline in improvisation, that saying yes to ideas is a good thing, it's more likely to make things happen. It works in life, too. I'm still not perfect at it but I found the more I say yes, the more I have opportunities rather than missing out on them, and the more I see opportunities when they present themselves, and choose to go after them.
I'm not a huge success. I've got a long way to go before I really find my place in the world, in a lot of ways, but 'yes' has been a great start.
Saying yes means more happens, increasing the chance of more awesome things happening 
However, it doesn't increase the chance of bad things happening by as much as there's usually an "are you sure" equivalent in any given situation. Saying "yes" more simply means you reach that point more often.
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I guess mine are really just being healthier. Actually exercising and eating as well as I can (not living on my own and not buying my own food hinders that a bit).
Thanks, Mikular!
Yes, John, that's why my other thing is to make lots of mistakes. Making mistakes is good because sometimes they turn out great, and it's impossible to make a mistake on purpose and so the only way to do it is by trying lots of stuff.
I started reading Danny Wallace's Yes Man the other day (just by coincidence, it's been on my 'I should read that when I want something light to read' list for a while, and just out of a Neal Stephenson novel it was perfect).
In it, he says yes to all things, except if he's being asked a factual question and yes would be a lie (e.g. is your name Jemima). It's certainly a way to have a crazy year, but I wonder whether a less stringent yes regime might actually be a feasible way of catching some of the yes goodness without the bad stuff.
Personally, if I was to try a period of yes-ing, I'd add the following rules, to keep me sane:
It has to be an offer/opportunity/suggestion or something directed personally at me, e.g. advertisments don't count.
I don't have to do it if it would involve breaking the law (in a way that I would consider bad)
I would keep a budget for each month and would not be required to say yes if doing so would put me out of budget. I would save any money left each month to 'rollover' so that I'd have more at my disposal, in theory, each month.
I would not be required to say yes to a situation that would have a good chance of putting me in real personal danger (like accepting a lift off some random creepy stranger or something)
Or sexy stuff.
I would not have to say yes if it caused a clash with something that I had either said yes too, or had previously committed to. I assume if I have a commitment that means I'm doing something, and the whole point of the exercise is to make sure I'm doing things.
I wouldn't have to say yes to anyone who knew that I was saying yes to stuff, and was trying to exploit my yessness with their requests.
That's quite a big selection of exceptions, but still leaves a lot of things to say yes to. I'm not saying I'm doing that. I'm just saying that if I -did- do it, that's how I'd go about it.
I think that's why I like "say yes more", because it doesn't mean "say yes all the time", it lets you have limits and such to keep it all good.
I was bored while stuck working New Year's Eve, started browsing Destructoid, and responded to one of their "Blogger wanted" topics.
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Upgrayedd/resolutions-you-play-to-win-the-game-218809.phtml
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