Top Ten New Year's Resolutions for Teenagers

Anyone who has raised a teenager knows that it is a couple years of the biggest parenting challenge you might have in your life. I asked about 130 teenagers in Salt Lake City, Utah if they had a New Year's resolution or a major goal that they wanted to accomplish in the coming year. Most of the teenagers had a New Year's resolution, but many had no idea how they would achieve it. If you have a teenager, maybe you can ask them to write down their goals and help them design a plan to succeed with meeting those goals. Here is the results of my poll:

Top 10 New Year's Resolutions for Teenagers

Be a better/good person

I don't have a New Year's Resolution

Go to the gym and get fit/stronger

Lose weight

Save money

Get into a good college

Eat healthy

Get a job

Be happy more often

Do homework on time

Other New Year's Resolutions of Teenaged High School Students

Practice piano more often

Not eat sugar

Don't swear

Don't die

Get a day planner and use it

Write a journal

Make next year better

Be on the Honor Roll the whole year

Have a more positive outlook

Do ballet

Save $1000

Make new friends

Run a 7-minute mile

Make State for swim

Fight the tyrannical majority

Wake up earlier

Work harder on everything

Study the Book of Mormon more often

Be better to my family

Get good grades

Get a car

Do the right thing no matter how unpopular it is

Be a good friend

Smile all the time

Run a 1.2 marathon

Run a 10K race

Eat out lessAccording to a Harvard Business School study, the 3% of students that had clear written goals were earning on average an astonishing 10% more than the 97% of other students combined!http://www.lifemastering.com/en/harvard_school.html