Share your 2020 New Year's Resolutions, a presentation looking at the customs and creative resolutions, hosted by Lyr Lobo, aka Dr. Cynthia Calongne on January 3, 2019.

1. 2020 Nonprofit Commons
Share Your New Year’s Resolutions
Lyr Lobo, aka Dr. Cynthia Calongne
CTU & CCCOnline, January 3, 2019

2. Welcome to 2020!
Images from Zinnia Zauber’s May 10, 2019 NPC presentation
A Feather in Your Cap:
Achievement & Recognition with Interactive Digital Storytelling

3. What are New Year’s Resolutions?
Promises for a better future
Pruitt, S. (2015). The history of new year’s resolutions. Retrieved from
https://www.history.com/news/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions
Ancient Babylonians
recorded their
celebrations of the
new year 4,000
years ago during a
12-day religious
festival in March
(Pruitt, 2015)
Romans moved it to
January 1 in 46 BC.
Janus symbolically
looked back a year
and into the future.
Christians thought about past mistakes
and resolved to do better in the future.

4. Pruitt, S. (2015). The history of new year’s resolutions. Retrieved from
https://www.history.com/news/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions
New Year’s Resolution Statistics
• 45% of Americans reported New Year’s
resolutions
• 8% achieved their goals
– from StatisticBrain.com (as cited in Pruitt, 2015)
• Yet we continue to set goals and dream big!

5. Best Life editors. (2019). 20 creative new year's resolutions that
will make you so happy in 2020. Retrieved from
https://bestlifeonline.com/creative-new-years-resolutions/
Creative New Year’s Resolutions (10)
Resolutions
1. Visit random places
2. Visit natural spaces
3. A daily act of kindness
4. Find someone to admire
5. Mentor someone
6. Change your perception
7. Host an annual event
8. Be more giving
9. Make a new friend
10. Reconnect with a friend
Benefits
See the world - perspectives
Makes you feel happier
A better world
Respect your role model
January Nat’l Mentor Month
Accept other lifestyles
Become more organized
Joys shared reap rewards
Forge bonds that last
Enrich your past

6. Best Life editors. (2019). 20 creative new year's resolutions that
will make you so happy in 2020. Retrieved from
https://bestlifeonline.com/creative-new-years-resolutions/
Creative New Year’s Resolutions (+10)
Resolutions
11. Call a loved one weekly
12. Go on a quest
13. Limit your social media
14. Think before you snap
15. Share a hobby
16. Invest in a business
17. Diversify your income
18. Listen to a new song daily
19. Try a new recipe monthly
20. Join #The100DayProject
Benefits
Encourage & celebrate
Aim for a target
Reduce stress
Take memorable photos
Time with significant other
Support & strengthen others
Gain financial strength
Music is joyful, share it
Outside your comfort zone
Do something for 100 days

7. Do you have a New Year’s Resolution?
Group Hug, NPC 12th Birthday, September 13, 2019
2020
What
happens
when
we dream
and work
towards a goal?

8. We are the Nonprofit Commons
Happy New Year 2020!