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  • Instead of making New Year's resolutions, you should make a New Year's bingo card.

  • If you're like me, New Year's resolutions don't work very well, and they don't motivate me later in the year if I mess up early.

  • But when you make a New Year's bingo card, you start with an empty 5x5 grid, and then in each square you just put one thing that you would like to do in the next year.

  • This could be really small, like eat a freshly dipped corn dog, or more ambitious, like I want to attend the biannual Micronation Conference in Montreal in June.

  • If you don't get to do one of them, it's not the end of the world, but when you get to cross one off, it feels really good.

  • Also, towards the end of the year when most resolutions are long forgotten, looking at your bingo card actually motivates you to do the ones you have left, to maybe get that full bingo for the year.

  • On my link tree, I'll put a PDF that you can print and fill out, and then if you stitch this video, you can show us the 25 things that you want to do in 2025.

  • Make that 24 things, because we don't count the free space.

Instead of making New Year's resolutions, you should make a New Year's bingo card.

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A Better Way To Do New Year's Resolutions

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    Shun posted on 2025/01/08
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mess

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UK /mes/

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  • A place where members of a military unit, college, or other group eat meals together.
  • A quantity of food, especially a soft or semi-liquid one.
  • noun
  • Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
  • verb
  • To make something untidy or dirty
  • other
  • A dirty or untidy state of things or place.
  • other
  • A difficult or confused situation.

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conference

US /ˈkɑnfərəns, -frəns/

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UK /ˈkɒnfərəns/

  • noun
  • Series of lectures held as an event
  • A formal meeting for consultations, discussion, or exchange of information.
  • A telephone call by which several people in different locations can speak to each other at the same time.
  • A formal meeting for discussion or exchange of views.
  • A group of sports teams that play games against each other.
  • A group of sports teams that play each other regularly.
  • An association of US sports teams
  • other
  • To hold a discussion; consult.

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ambitious

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UK /æmˈbɪʃəs/

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  • Having the desire to be successful in life, work

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motivate

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UK /'məʊtɪveɪt/

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  • To provide someone with a reason for doing something; to inspire.
  • To give someone a reason, the will to do something
  • other
  • To provide someone with a reason for doing something; encourage.

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empty

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  • To become empty.
  • adjective
  • Having no people present; evacuated.
  • Lacking substance or meaning; hollow.
  • Containing nothing; with no contents
  • Containing nothing; not filled or occupied.
  • Without emotions, feelings, meaning or force
  • Without real value or sincerity.
  • other
  • To remove all the contents of (a container or space).
  • noun
  • Item, e.g. a bottle, whose contents have been used
  • verb
  • To remove the contents from something

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dip

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  • verb
  • To decrease or lower temporarily
  • To put something in and out of a liquid quickly
  • To switch off or lower lights on a car
  • noun
  • Food or sauce eaten with crackers/raw vegetables
  • Place on surface (e.g. a road) lower than the rest

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grid

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UK /ɡrɪd/

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  • A framework of parallel bars used for cooking food over heat.
  • Electrical network supplying electricity to area
  • A network of electrical conductors and substations that transmits electricity.
  • An electrode in a vacuum tube.
  • Metal structure with bars used to cover a hole
  • A pattern of lines on a map or chart that helps to find the location of places.
  • A network of lines that cross each other to form a series of squares or rectangles.
  • Pattern made up of lines and small squares
  • other
  • To mark with a grid.

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leave

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  • noun
  • A period of absence from duty or work, especially when granted permission.
  • Permission to do something
  • Vacation time; time off work
  • other
  • To cause someone to be in a particular state or condition.
  • To allow something to remain in a specific place or condition.
  • other
  • Permission to be away from work or duty.
  • Remains of food.
  • verb
  • To go away from; depart
  • To gift property to someone after you die
  • To allow something to continue happening
  • To let something remain unused or available
  • To let something or someone remain somewhere
  • other
  • To go away from a place.

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square

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  • Shape with 4 equal length sides and 4 equal angles
  • The result of multiplying Length by the width
  • Open public area in the middle of the town
  • adjective
  • Being fair or honest
  • Multiply a number by itself e.g. 2x2 or 6x6
  • adverb
  • In an honest or direct way
  • verb
  • To make something balance or be equal
  • To multiply a number by itself, e.g. 2x2 or 6x8
  • To straighten the edge to form a four-sided shape

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count

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  • noun
  • Number of things added together, e.g. votes
  • With the number of crimes, knockouts, as stated
  • A European nobleman.
  • verb
  • To add things together to find the total number
  • To matter or be important
  • Determine the total number of (a collection of items).
  • Be important; have significance.
  • To include someone or something in a final number

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