How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution

A few tools to make you healthy, wealthy and wise. Or at least healthy and wise.

Matt Paolelli
6 min readJan 8, 2021

Well, we made it! 2021. And while hanging up a new calendar might not solve all (er, any) of the world’s current problems, it at least gives each of us an annual opportunity for some self-reflection that hopefully leads to some self-improvement during our next trip around the sun.

So regardless of your New Year’s resolution (or lack thereof), here are a few tricks I’m using in the new year to keep myself better organized and hold myself accountable for building good habits and eradicating bad ones. Maybe some of these will work for you, too!

This post first appeared in my newsletter Tips From Dad. Subscribe for more life tips from a dad living in suburban Chicago with three young kids!

Notion

Mobile | Desktop

Toward the end of 2020, I discovered this amazing “all-in-one platform” for getting my life together. For years I have searched for a solid to-do list app, system or physical piece of paper that will help me stay organized at home, at work and everywhere in-between. I’ve downloaded and uninstalled so many apps, ingested countless productivity articles and podcast episodes, and scattered my tasks and important…

--

--

Matt Paolelli

husband & father | long-winded writer | cancer survivor | side hustler