New Year's Resolutions

Resolution. Noun. Of the many Dictionary.com definitions, I think the first three are the most appropriate for New Year's Day...

1. a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group.

2. a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.

3. the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.

The sense of resolution as "holding firmly" didn't enter the language until the 1530's, the original sense (as the word was used in the early 1400's, when it crossed over from Medieval Latin) having been "a breaking into parts."

The first day of a new year always seems so promising. A fresh slate, a clean start, to be made of what you can, or will. I do not have a strong tradition of making New Year's resolutions, but I am just in that kind of mood today, so here we go...

1. Write a blog post at least once a week. While that doesn't sound too demanding, my average last year was closer to a post every three weeks. I may not hit 52 posts this year, but maybe I can do better than 17.
2. Write (creatively) at least 10 minutes every day, a piece of advice I am stealing from Marie Ponsot, who I heard read at the Dodge Poetry Festival in the fall.
3. Learn to make croissants. I have been saying I was going to do this for the last 6 months, and then lost the resource I was going to use as a guide. I have been baking up a storm this past year, I want to see if I can play in the realm of challenging French pastry.
4. Jog every week. Sometimes I go a month between outings, sometimes I go 3 times in a single week. I would like to be able to do this on a more regular basis.
5. Do yoga every week. Same story as above.
6. Don't procrastinate on my grad school applications. I procrastinate on everything else, I think this is one thing I can't afford to do this with.

I think that's plenty. In the unlikely event that I accomplish all these things, maybe I'll add some others. What's on everyone else's list? Anyone else making a list?