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New Year Resolutions for the Baby Boomer Generation


Psychological Articles by Dr. Karen for BoomerYearbook.com


As the baby boomer generation enters the final year of the last decade of a new Century, the World is in pretty poor shape. Economic hardship has meant a falling of standards for many people. The New Year is a great opportunity to regroup and review our policies on how we intend to face the next decade.


Some simply do not believe in the process of making and keeping resolutions, believing the concept to be flawed: why promise yourself change? Why not just change? The point is the resolve itself: I will do it – I have to do it – I am going to do it. Whatever works for some people is nonsense to others. Psychological articles teach us that New Year’s resolutions are a new beginning; a chance to start over; a clean page.
New Year resolutions can be simple or complicated. They might concern family relationships and a promise to improve – a determination not rise to Grandma’s incessant nagging or the wife’s extravagances – or they might involve professional advancement – working harder or helping someone else’s efforts at work. A resolution might even be a personal one that nobody else hears about – losing weight; getting fit; eating healthily; giving up smoking or drinking or both.


The baby boomer generation have always made quite a thing out of resolving to improve in the New Year and some of us have striven valiantly to achieve results: others have fallen at a few fences but courageously make the same resolution each New Year in the hope that a miracle occurs!


Living Green is the new resolution on the lips of so many well meaning baby boomer reform addicts this year. Living Green entails being a responsible citizen and using common sense to help prolong the life of the planet: using pump sprays instead of aerosols; recycling; buying recycled products whenever possible and helping to keep our environment eco-friendly. Psychological articles note that Planet Killing has replaced the Smoking Stigma!

People who do not properly ‘zone’ their garbage by faithfully separating plastics and paper and glass are considered to be slightly unsavory and not nice to know!


Someone with the skill to re-make and make-do and overhaul is considered to subscribe to the new talents of the 21st Century and this year’s resolutions are centered on eco skills: honing the ones we have and learning new ones.


The other major resolution being made this year concerns making economies in the home – big style. Personal improvements are being set aside this year in favor of making the changes necessary for survival in the wake of the worst economic climate in eighty years. So in homes across America this year, lights are being switched off; heating is being set on a timer; fast cook recipes are being unearthed to save energy and last year’s wardrobe is being adapted to style.
The New Year dawns on a new era of baby boomer resolve and adaptability, and we boomers are ready to face the challenge.


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