1. Tell them to everyone.

You won’t always be able to keep yourself accountable. But if you tell your roommate, your mother, your mother’s best friend, your cat, and your local spiritual leader that this year you’re trying to invest in long term relationships instead of falling down the Tinder hole, it’s very likely you will be held to it.

2. Use a calendar and think in the short term.

Set goals daily, weekly, or monthly (depending on your resolution). Make sure to keep tabs on the small steps along the journey.

3. Set up regular reminders.

Similar to the last one, but more persistent. If my goal was to drink more water, I’d have an alarm every single minute to take a sip! And another one every hour to remind yourself to use the restroom too.

4. Set up random reminders.

Nothing like seeing a reminder on the day before finals asking you if you’ve been drinking enough water every day! Just another small reason to be stressed.

5. Artfully place sticky notes.

Get your resolutions to literally stick on everything. You can’t forget something that you see every single day!

6. Don't make any.

Easier to follow resolutions that don’t exist! You don’t need the new year to start shaping a new you. That decision can be made at any time, on any day (but while it’s the start of 2018, it might as well be now!)