New Years Resolutions

It's the New Year and time to get back on track, jump-start your January, and get fit for 2012. All month long, we're helping you set your path for the rest of the year by breaking down the different fundamentals of a healthy and fit lifestyle. Our focus for the next seven days is how to fuel your body.

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My favorite New Year's resolutions are cultural ones — they take determination, but are also kind of indulgent. Last week I asked which books you were determined to read in 2011, and the majority of you named classic works of literature. Here are 15 books you plan to read in 2011.

• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• Waiting For Godot, Samuel Beckett
• Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
• Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Middlemarch, George Eliot
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
• Moby Dick, Herman Melville
• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
• The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
• A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
• Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Robert Winston

Have any to add?

• The Closer's heroine yields to male characters — Life Forward
• How soon should you give a guy your cell phone code? — Très Q + A
• 10 celebrity divorces from 2010 — Mydisfunkshion
• It's not too late to get inspired with these 10 New Year's resolutions — Enchanted Life
• Holidating wrapup — Confessions of an Online Dating Queen

• Is time alone your new goal? — Em & Lo
• Can groomsmen be too matchy-matchy? — Glamour
• Resolutions for couples — Glo
• 5 effortless ways to rekindle your marriage after kids — LilSugar
• 10 New Year's resolutions every guy should make — The Frisky
• Beyond Huck Finn, other books in need of an image makeover — Flavorwire
• The next Miss America could be bald — BellaSugar

Whether it was to date more (or less) or take your current relationship to the next level, we asked what love-life resolutions you wanted to make in 2011. Only three of you chimed in, but they were all admirable resolutions for a healthier love and sex life.

• "To not be so shy about my opinions." — Spacekatgal
• "To not end up with (date/sleep with) any total losers. Also have lots of amazing sex." — Betty Wayne
• "Pay closer attention and really listen to my boyfriend. Squabble less." — onlysourcherry

Have any others to add?

It's a new dawn, a new day, and a new year! With the holidays and end-of-the-year madness officially behind us, today is the day to plan ahead and make big change. I find plotting change in big increments (like the full year or decade) can be a bit daunting and should be left up to resolutions, so let's just stick with goal setting for January. What's your primary goal for this fresh, new month?

A few close friends of mine are moving into their dream homes in early 2011. As you may imagine, their to-do lists are miles long, full of plans to repaint, retile, tear down walls, and in general, create a lot of mayhem in the New Year. Of course, this temporary mayhem will yield some amazing long-term results in terms of their homes' beauty and functionality.

My home-related New Year's resolutions are a bit more modest than my pals' plans. Since I live in an older home, a lot of my resolutions involve maintenance: scrubbing down the deck when the torrential rain stops, refinishing the kitchen floors, and giving the chimney a proper sweep are at the top of my list. I have left a little room for fun though — including rearranging some family photos on a new wall and switching around artwork.

Tell me, what are your home-related New Year's resolutions?

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The new year is a time to start fresh, to not only make resolutions but to keep them. As the end of the year nears, think about what you want to accomplish in 2011. In addition to the official tasks we’ve set out for you in the LV Winter To-Dos—like reassessing your budget, maxing out your retirement account, and re-balancing your portfolio—lay out the tasks that you’ll set for yourself.

Mastering your finances isn’t just about what we think you should do. What are some of the big-picture goals you’re trying to accomplish? Whether you are planning to stick to your budget better than ever, get out of debt, or finally sign up for your company’s 401(k) plan, we leave it up to you. Whatever your choice, we’re here to support you.

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