New Year's Resolutions
A new year. A blank slate. A fresh start.
When I was younger, I promised myself every New Year's to get slim. It went really badly until I stopped caring about my weight.
My New Year's resolution for 2026 was to do a mindfulness exercise every day.
To increase the possibility of keeping a promise, it is good if the promise is concrete and measurable. Just the right size is also good. If the promise is too ambitious, the risk of getting tired increases.
But now this is a page for writing exercises. And this exercise is simple:
Write a text that contains at least three promises.
They can be good or bad promises. Reasonable or ridiculous promises. Your promises or someone else's.
Variation
Write a text where the promises are not given by a human, but by a non-living thing. In other words, your task is to use personification.
The form is up to you
The text can be in any form you like. Prose, poetry, postcard, meeting protocol, checklist, chat, newspaper article or anything else.If you don't want to pick the form yourself, I suggest that you write a really short story.
3 minutes
I suggest that you spend 3 on this writing exericse.