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What's Your New Year's Resolution?

Share your New Year's resolution with Half Moon Bay Patch.

Every New Year's, many of us make a New Year's resolution.

What's your New Year's resolution? Half Moon Bay Patch wants to know.

I seem to make the same resolution every year: to be more active and fit and to live a clutter-free life, two areas that are important for me to be as productive, efficient and healthy as possible, something that I foresee myself continually working on my entire life, however.

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There are days I don't want to workout and there are even more days that the paper piles I create on the kitchen counter, leftover goodie bags brought home from birthday parties, the pipe cleaner, Play-doh and fuse bead craft projects my 5-year-old makes, my husband's pile of Surfer magazines, dresses hanging in the closet that my 8-year-old won't wear, and more are overflowing my living space.

But then I fall back on my annual New Year's resolution, my baseline for sanity, and on autopilot I do what needs to be done: go for a run, call PARCA to pick up the donation bags, drag out the recycling, take a long walk, reorganize (again) the Surfer magazine pile, do some sit-ups (how I hate those) and repeat all over again.

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Last year, Dustin McGahan, a green building contractor and blogger living in Pacifica, offered Pacifica Patch readers suggestions for lightening their carbon footprint in the New Year.

And in "Forget New Year's Resolutions — Do Something New in 2011," Half Moon Bay Patch editor Kristine Wong offered up the idea of trying out a new hobby or joining an interest group instead of making a New Year's resolution with a sampling of classes, activity groups and volunteer opportunities offered in Half Moon Bay in the first part of the new year.

In the article Wong writes, "Since resolution-making is just one kind of tool we use to try to push ourselves and our lives in what we think is the 'right' direction (keep in mind that what's considered to be 'right' is always relative and changing, depending on one's priorities), why not think about giving yourself a nudge in that direction by taking a class, joining an activity group, or volunteering instead of making a New Year's resolution?"

Every New Year's, Wong "usually thinks about what I want to focus on in the New Year instead of making resolutions," she says. For 2012, "I'll be sending in another sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project and starting up again on a film project I've been working on."

Pacifica Patch editor Camden Swita also shares his 2012 New Year's resolution: "My New Year's resolutions are to spend more time with friends and family, travel and to save more money," he says. "I'd also like to make more creative space in my life."

Now Half Moon Bay Patch wants to know your New Year's resolution.

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