by Matt
Tag Your Resolutions
I love the end of the year.
I know it’s mostly arbitrary, but something about the closing of the chapter of 2006 provides a wonderful opportunity to take a step back from the day to day and consider the things that made this year matter to you, and what you want to see matter next year.
It’s also when I get to read two of my favorite things of the year, resolutions and predictions. Resolutions always inspire me and predictions usually bring a smile to my face.
I’d love to read some of your resolutions and predictions for the new year. Let’s all tag our posts so we can see what each other are saying:
Use “2007 predictions” to tag your predictions for the new year.
Use “2007 resolutions” to tag your resolutions.
This has the added bonus of making your entries easier to find next year so you can see how right or wrong you are, and how well you were able to stick to your resolutions.
December 31st, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Did people do this last year? It would be cool to quickly flip through predictions for 2006.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:08 pm
As far as I know there wasn’t any group effort to tag entries like we’re doing this year. Also a year ago, WordPress.com only had about 50 thousand users, so there were a lot fewer people to share their thoughts.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:13 pm
Plus this will be nicer to navigate if we want to read others’ new years resolutions and stuff.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:14 pm
Very cool, Matt!
I’ll add these tags for tomorrow’s post!
December 31st, 2006 at 10:17 pm
I’m planning on sticking some resolutions and predictions up later today, but I’d be interested in knowing how many people have been using some form of “Year in Review” in recent posts about the year that’s past. I started going through just to see what happened and to remind myself of things. Here’s the latest post; I’m putting the rest of them all up in the next 3-4 hours. I think it may be cool for some of us to look back on our most popular posts or those that may mean more now than before.
Happy New Year everybody!
December 31st, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Well, I only have a ‘My year in Review’ post and I don’t make resolutions, but I will definitely have a look through others.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:59 pm
I made a post in which I ranted and raved about things that annoy me in hopes that people would wake up and slowly develop different habits. What tag would I use?
December 31st, 2006 at 11:05 pm
I didn’t tag my 2006 predictions as such (obviously), but I did create and publish a list of them when I was back at Blogger. If anyone’s interested, they’re here.
Happy new year all.
December 31st, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Great idea. I’m doing that right now, tag and all.
December 31st, 2006 at 11:21 pm
As a one week old blogger I’m still learning to work wordpress. My reolution is to encourage Mystic Merv to make more predictions in 2007. Mystic Merv is a hermit from the Celtic fringes. He sometimes speaks out ‘from the big chair’, on his mountain fastness. He claims powers of divination in the tradition of a distant ancestor, Mystic Merl, consultant to King Arthur. Merv offers ten leadership predictions for 2007 with news of what will happen to Tony Blair (out), Google (unloved), Gordon of the big fist (will become PM) Bob Woodward (will do lots of interviews), The Big Green Mac Corporation (grren with envy at green image of other companies, and the monster Glaskazep merger (a mega merger of pharma firms
December 31st, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Awesome! I’ll do this for January 1st, after I’ve had time to think about my resolutions.
Happy New Year everyone!
December 31st, 2006 at 11:56 pm
Resolutions.. hmm!! I think I will keep it to myself..
lolz..
December 31st, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Great idea this is going to be fun
January 1st, 2007 at 12:18 am
Cool stuff. I will need to do something with these tags.
Thanks!
January 1st, 2007 at 12:46 am
This is a very cool little idea. Maybe I’ll even MAKE resolutions this year. I don’t make predictions: I make bets. Same amount of work, more money in it.
January 1st, 2007 at 1:48 am
i have a thing against using a tag for only one post (how wasteful! even though it’s not a physical kind of waste) so i hope nobody minds if i just plunk my resolution post here.
and yes, happy new year 2007!
January 1st, 2007 at 2:59 am
[...] Year’s Resolutions? Try this… Jump to Comments Since Matt asked the WordPress community to tag their resolutions for 2007, I’ve been tryingto decide what mine should be. I’ve got a couple sort of nebulously in mind, but I’ll keep them private. I will, however, make a prediction: I won’t actually be all that resolute in sticking to them. [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 3:19 am
To me it’s a great idea, i’ll give the chance to remind me the resolutions wich started this year. It’s me or always end the year doing differently than we originally plan?
January 1st, 2007 at 3:29 am
This is a cute idea
January 1st, 2007 at 4:08 am
My list is up as well. Happy New Year from Montreal.
Jeremy
January 1st, 2007 at 4:08 am
As a newbie blogger, this will be a good excerise for me - learning how to manuver through this new world. Thanks for the mental and technical exercise.
January 1st, 2007 at 4:31 am
Now is the right time……
January 1st, 2007 at 4:39 am
[...] Matt at WordPress has asked that everyone tag their 2007 resolutions and predictions so they can be easily tracked for others and for next year. [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 5:06 am
i concur..
January 1st, 2007 at 6:13 am
I just posted my resolutions a few minutes ago. Click my blog to see.
January 1st, 2007 at 6:23 am
Happy New Year!! =)
January 1st, 2007 at 7:02 am
I don’t really do the resolutions thing, but I do minor version of the year in review and the predictions (but not just for the upcoming year).
With almost a month of blogging, there isn’t a long trail to measure yet, but maybe next year I will do something like this.
January 1st, 2007 at 7:44 am
My Resolution? For all of us to remember Hurricane Katrina and The Tragedy of New Orleans.
January 1st, 2007 at 10:15 am
Matt,
What a great idea! It’s also a way for us to follow if we keep up to our goals or not :):)
January 1st, 2007 at 10:44 am
[...] 2007 predictions, resolutions and wishes Well, it’s a new year and it’s time to look forward, look into the crystal ball and maybe set a goal or five for yourself. And since Matt wants us to tag this thing I can find this post in a year and shake my head.. [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 10:52 am
Ah Resolutions,aren’t they meant to be broken?
Anyway,cool idea.Would be nice to read my resolutions afterwards and see how many I’ve kept.
January 1st, 2007 at 11:04 am
[...] Anyways, I thought I’d at least list down my new year resolutions for posterity, taking the hint from Matt’s post on WordPress.com. So here they are: [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 11:11 am
@ Mark.
My thoughts exactly. This is why I like WordPress more then Blogger; such a great sense of community
January 1st, 2007 at 11:23 am
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January 1st, 2007 at 11:34 am
January 1st, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Nice idea!
January 1st, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Love the idea, Matt. I was just in the process of pulling together a post compiling my favorite Year End Recap/Predictions posts when, going through my blogroll, I came across this. Am looking forward to reading what my fellow ‘pressies are resolving/predicting, and also to more WordPress community features like this!
January 1st, 2007 at 4:30 pm
[...] It’s time once again to do a review of who and what we are and where we want to go in the future as we formally set down our Urban Semiotic Resolutions and Predictions for 2007. [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 4:35 pm
[...] nerds need maps…nerds get lost… « New header graphic Happy 2007, all! January 1st, 2007 Happy New Year to everyone! I’ll be posting my new year’sresolutions sometime later today, in between bouts of work finishing up my big 2006 project. I don’t think I’ll be making any predictions, since I find myself horrendously bad at that sort of thing. [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 6:36 pm
good idea!
January 1st, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I posted mine!
January 1st, 2007 at 7:42 pm
[...] J.C.’s Resolutions for the New Year Published January 2nd, 2007 Musings , 2007 resolutions Caught this interesting bit on WordPress about tagging our new year’s resolutions for two-double-oh-seven, and thought it might be fun to come up with my own resolutions. [...]
January 1st, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I added mine… really fun idea. Thanks for bringing this to the masses.
January 1st, 2007 at 8:14 pm
good idea
January 1st, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Again a very unique and good idea!
January 1st, 2007 at 10:04 pm
I never do it myself. Resolutions, I mean. Instead, I tell others their resolutions.
I already know my mom’s. That’s easy:
LOSE 20 POUNDS!
Well, at least 20 pounds…
January 1st, 2007 at 11:21 pm
I wonder if you can catagorize what percentage of resolutions will include money and weight issues?
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:28 am
great idea. happy new year.
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:34 am
I resolve to be a better person and to write more(seeing as I’m a writer in my spare time).
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:36 am
Resolutions are meant to set standards but how many of us need standards?
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:34 am
your idea is kinda normal, but nobody had thought of it before i tink.
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:49 pm
[...] Following this idea to tag 2007 resolutions and predictions: Predictions [...]
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:15 pm
This sounds interesting!
Great idea
Happy new Year and Happy Blogging!
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Ooh, that’s a good idea. I might have to do that…
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:27 am
I just finished writing up my 2006 resolutions, but if I get around to the 2007 ones, maybe I’ll join in on the tagfest…
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:08 am
when you make something public and create a stucture where you can/could be held accountable for your resolutions you add a certain * to the process - brilliant!
will it make people more likely to keep to their word? i’m going to give it a go….and have fun in the process. May this year be your best ever.
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:24 pm
I’ll probably be posting both eventually. The tag I’ll use is “cliche”. I figure that’s most apropos.
These 2007 resolutions/predictions pages are all over the blagonet. I don’t mean to trivialize. Like I said, I’m probably going to put some up too. It’s nice, comfy, fun cliche. Like some previous poster though, I’m not comfortable making a category that I only intend one post to fall under.
January 4th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Hi….
January 4th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Resolutions:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/top-10-resolutions-that-i-will-not-feel-bad-about-not-keeping-2007-edition/
Predictions: http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/tech-and-blogging-predictions-for-2007/
January 6th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
I think it’s a great idea, but I won’t be putting up any resolutions or predictions, because I know I won’t stick to them.
I guess I’ll just live day by day, have fun.
That’s what life is about…work and play. Too bad I do more play than work, though.
January 6th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
I’ll probably tag more stuff to my blog….!
January 7th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
[...] tradition and who am I to fight it? There’s also a drive to get bloggers everywhere to tag their resolutions to make it easier to retrieve them this time next year, so I’ve handily tagged this one [...]
January 7th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Matt
I wrote up some resolutions and tagged them. Take a look: http://maryt.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/new-years-resolutions/
January 8th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Here are mine: http://petitsreves.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/2007-resolutions/
January 8th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
2007, Year of the Pig! (February 18 is actually the first day of the Chinese New Year). Here is my page, with my first post being “2007 resolutions”. Enjoy, and thanks Matt!
Seven’s Year
January 10th, 2007 at 3:43 am
[...] I saw this article over at WordPress.com and I figured, “what the heck”, right? I mean I just started this new blog and already [...]
January 10th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
My goal is now up. Check it out.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
al buddhas of past present and future a nice day
January 13th, 2007 at 4:33 am
Happy New Year 2007!
a new beginning,
a new chapter,
hope peace continues to stay,
and negatives come to an end.
January 14th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
this is the best thing that i have got in mit.
January 17th, 2007 at 12:18 am
happy 2007 let this year be unique!!!
January 21st, 2007 at 11:12 pm
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May 10th, 2007 at 10:21 am
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