Write your New Year’s Resolutions Here!
My new video asks you all for your New Year’s Resolutions! So go ahead and write yours here, and I will feature some of them in an upcoming video… as well as give you mine!
Looking forward to seeing your responses!
Oh.. and here is an interesting article I just read that says something similar to what I said in my video!
Marina
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Marina is definitely what we
mongo-types call a “spinner”!
lostforwords - good call!
Marina,
This is one is really one of my favorites because you’re super cute in it, and because it’s fun to see how you dance–very fun. The way you did this video gets you out of the static head and shoulders thing also–you pop up into the frame from the bottom, and we get to see you almost from head to foot. Have you ever thought about doing more in the style of this one? (Maybe you have, I just haven’t watched all your videos, just picked some at random). Anyway, it’s great to see you in motion.
An idea: what about hotforwords goes on location in “Liberty City”? You could wear different outfits according to the season–summer, spring, fall, winter (more fun right there)–and you could shoot in the day or at the night at interesting locations. This would take-up even more time–just what you need.
This one isn’t working anymore!
It is now. The most fun; you are so girlie in this one!
I’ve made up my new years resolution a tad late (5 months)
However, my resolution is to get myself fit again.
So far, I have lost 10 kilos in a matter of 2 weeks. All because of “exercising and eating right”. Which is not easy for me as i hate most fruit and salads.Speaking of which…time for my workout…looking forward to it
I always used to “give up smoking” as my New Year’s resolution and I would invariably fail. Then one year my New Year’s Resolution was to give up making New Year’s Resolutions. This is one resolution I have successfully kept for many many years and I also gave up smoking when I decided to stop one summer - perhaps it is the time of year that makes them so hard to keep?
x for teacher x
I want to be open to more ideas about religion, sexuality, and generally how people are. I was raised that there is a certain way and all other ways are wrong, but I’m learning more and more about other ways of living! It’s so interesting!!
MURRON IS AWESOME (name similar to Marina)
My New Year’s Resolutions are:
1. Start smoking
2. Eat more
3. Exercise less
4. Stop brushing my teeth
5. Start using foul language in public
6. End every sentence with “OK?”
7. Buy an SUV
8. Start wearing a baseball cap backwards
9. Start using my left turn signal in a turn left only lane
10. Say nice things about George Bush.
My new year’s resolution is
to do the things that I should have originally done in the first place. And to keep doing what I am doing.
my new years resolutions are to…..
lose weight
find a new job
look after my money
learn to drive
try to be more lucky in love
take one day off from work a month to go visit an old friend and make it their special day. That would be 12 different old or long lost friends over a year. I would of course plan ahead of time that I was visiting so I could come visit on a day when they have the time.
Spend more time catching up on my reading. Aside from my comic books, I am currently reading ‘Mathematics for the Nonmathematician’ by Morris Kline
I want to have more time for me and good friends of mine.
Life do not only exists of working, there are so many other things to explore
abit late respond, but i”ll watch and be more active in hotforwords class
I want to shed a few lbs too. I thought I would start by walking a few days a week as a start. I need to put more videos on my you-tube page. I take my camera with me every where I go. I just need to use it more!
I want to finish the book I’ve been writing for five years. Maybe if I make it a resolution, I can accomplish it.
Oh, and to expand the number of different beers I have tried.
my new years resolution is tomeet new people have a girl friend and go to a “the mighty boosh” live concert
I resolve to work less. No more double shifts!
I like helping people that don’t otherwise get the opportunity to be helped because of disease, war, or poverty. I’ve decided to try to help significantly, not just donating my $10 to whatever charity, so my friend and I have bought the domain for a website to help me raise and donate a million dollars to a charitable organization that will hopefully improve quality of life significantly for someone somewhere. The site is:
http://www.HelpUsDonateAMillion.com
We’re about to start building the site now and we think we’re going to copy an older website idea: we’re going to sell each pixel as advertising space @ 50 cents / pixel. And old idea but some new twists, like we’re not keeping the money and we’ll be using newer technology so the site will be better than the original idea.
That’s my new years resolution. get this project on the road. I love your you tube lessons HotForWords. They are wonderful. Thanks for starting and keeping with it.
If anyone’s interested in helping / advertising with the donate a million plan, please email ads@helpusdonateamillion.com
Thanks again HotForWords, for all the effort you put into your work. I think of you as a great role model for my little nieces because you are proof that women can be both pretty and intelligent.
I would like to update my new years resolution:
Same as the last post:
1. See the whole europe.
2. Do bungee-jumping at least once.
3. Start going regulary to the gym.
Guess that
My Resolution:
Be on time !!
Do my expense account monthly and stop leaving my money in the hands of the evil empire.
I plan to laugh, lots, every day. It sure makes you feel better.
To write, illustrate, and publish at least 3 chapbooks. (I just finished writing and illustrating one … http://www.geocities.com/stanlobster/symmny.html … which I’ll be self-publishing later in the year.)
But that leads to a suggestion for a word you could investigate … chapbook!
Thank you for your lessons!
My New Year’s resolution this year is to read the entire bible before the end of the year. Yeah that’s right…the whole thing!
I think i have new year resolution to find gf that look like Marina …that not going be easy….
my new year’s resolutions are…. mmmmm…
1) improve my english with marina’s lessons
2) go to spain next summer for a work-holiday
3) have a lot of fun and leave all the bad thoughts!
marina you’re the best teacher in the world!
To wash my car and clean my apartment at least once a month.
All these resolutions are kinda spooky. And a few are downright bizarre. Mine was rather simple. This year I resolve to make no resolution I can’t keep. Wow. That was easy.
I have resolved to enjoy life more by;
Continuing to exercise 3 times a week minimum.
Get out of the house more.
Work on my running stamina so I can enter the Air Force Marathon next September and finish without walking.
Last year I lost 31 pounds and developed good healthy eating and workout habits. This year I’d like to lose another 30 pounds before my 44th birthday in November.
Hmm. Well. Hmm. I resolve to make a New Year Resolution…eventually. How do I break that down into little parts? *scratches head*
I’m going to do my part to contribute to making this world a better place for every living being - now and in the future. I want my future greatgrandchildren to still be able to live in a beautiful world.
And, on a sidenote, being Dutch, I still want to know the origin of the expression “Double Dutch”.
I have 2 resolutions and they are connected. To find a kind and caring woman to be a mom for my three young kids and to make her YOU!!
i like niceguy1 resolution…..but i stick to my own to work out more:)
I would like to start learning a new language. I love English but want to broaden my horizons a little bit.
I think it would be great if Marina could apply some of her exemplarary linguistics skills to teach us cultural(y) deficient ones in another way. I have a feeling that she might be an expert in more than philology. Maybe another “hotfor…” website, youtube, or Itunes podcast. You are an excellent teacher because you are sweet, thorough, and compassionate.
Keep up the good work!
My new years Resolution is to see you topless!
1. See the whole europe.
2. Do bungee-jumping at least once.
3. Start going regulary to the gym.
Guess that’s all.
I have no resolutions, I am perfect,
1) Go to the States, or to The Capital of the Republic of Lexicon, or wherever u are to make you an interview and publish an article in my country (i’m a journalist, just proffesional interest lol)
2)learn, dream, smile more than the last year.
Resolutions? As someone who strives for continual improvement, New Year’s resolutions are a non-event for me. Besides, what is the point of solving a problem again, anyway, right?
Ha! Ha! Ha!!! resolution –> resolve –> re-solve
Isn’t that kind of like re-running a marathon?
(Yes, English is a messed-up language)
I am so confused… Wait a second, no I’m not!
My resolution is to be nicer to the people I love.
Early last year, I picked up the habit of making fun of my friends and family in a playful, kind of sarcastic way. The problem is that I started to adopt the things I was saying playfully into my every day vocabulary and it lost a lot of it’s playful tone to the point. Now I just seem like a jerk.
Anyway, Happy New Year! Thanks for all the videos.
1. learn more foreign language
2. write more
3. maintain a good math grade
4. accept that there is no normal, so normal people are freaks. Yes, be more accepting, of others, of myself.
My New Year’s resolution is to do things that bring glory to God.
Watch more hotforwords.
to finish my art degree, a few of my friends call it quits
To sell lots of my novels
Resolutions:
1.not procrastinate so much,can I write the rest later?
2.be more of extrovert
3.get a life
Love your show!
I tend to be late, so I want be more on time for scheduled events.
I also want to improve my dancing skills.
1.be true to myself
2.give something good, beautiful and lasting to this world so that everything that went into making it possible for me to be here and reap rewards not of my making, was not wasted
3.dance with Marina (music a plus but not required)
Have a good year everyone
1. Dont get fired from my new job.
2. Become more awesome then I am now… a pretty hard thing for the likes of me.
3. try not to judge people before I get to know them.. have had some problems here.
4. Ill say lose weight but that might jinx it..
You know I’d like to know where JINX came from…(with you in a little red number)
My New Years Resolution is to write my brother a letter, since I haven’t spoken to him in over a year. He’s in Mexico (for school) and to be honest, I miss him. :’(
My New Years Resolution is to find that special someone.
Marina you interested lol j/k.
i have 2 resolutions. the 1st is 2 get a 4.0 in my next 2 semesters at school and the 2nd is 2 drop down 2 around 7-10% body fat by june (im currently about 15-17%)
Never miss a HotForWords show EVER!
As your most recent youtube video highlighted, I too resolve to lose a few lbs
My New Years Resolution is simple, to simplify and clearify my life. Nothing more then what I need to study and get my Associates in Business and continue up with schooling to get my PhD in Business. Taking a bigger role in higher education as a professor.
My new years resolution is to learn more about words not only in English but also other foreign languages as well
I will try VERY hard to look at your beautiful face a little bit more and not only your beautiful body when I watch your videos.
Fall in Love Again, Should I ??
sure
my new years resolution is to, be wiser how i spend money, and NOT waste it on things i can live with out instead of rushing out and buying every thing in site (i think a few ladies can relate to this one with me.!), and to show my BF i appreciate him and every thing he does for me on a daily basis, aside from me paying for our annual cruise to the Bahamas. which i know is VERY materialistic. which i’m naturally FAR from being.
My New Year’s Resolution is learn a new language (maybe Swedish) ’cause is really cool
to chat with people in their own languages.
The second NYR is to travel to Europe.
My third NYR is to have more fun (this is related to the 2nd NYR).
have fun!
My New Years Resolution is to get up the courage to ask out the guy in my class that I have a crush on. This will be really hard because I am afraid of rejection and it is pretty embarrassing!
Well thats mine and I hope I can keep it.
One of my resolutions is to finish two more semesters of college.
But my most important one is to watch more HotForWords!
Hey Marina!!
My New Year’s resolutions are:
1. Drink more water
2. Be in bed by 10 on school nights!
3. Write more
4. Be happy!
My resolution this year is to not make a resolution!!! I might be able to pull this one off too!!!!!!
My resolutio
My resolution is to start making youtube videos, work out more, gain 5 - 10 LBS of muscle, and get a job that relates to what i took in college (graphic design, or game design)
I have a suggestion for your site. you can put up a section for your pictures
that sounds pretty dirty… hmm… yeah i might second that…
oh boy
my new year’s resolution is to game less, work harder at school , make my family proud and trying to be more kind against my mother. and Doing BIG things in Small ways
My new year’s resolution is to make time to listen to some music every day - it’s the best way to stay sane!
What’s YOUR resolution, Marina:?:
My new year’s resolution is to read the books i have before i buy more.
Although I think keithanthony made some good points, I think this is why people traditionally made New Year’s Resolutions. Originally, Christmas (short for “Christ Mass”) was a time for reflecting on who Christ is, the 4 Gospels,etc… Having devoted extra time to that during Christmas, it made sense for people to make New Year’s Resolutions, seeing as they’d just spent time (ideally) reflecting on the basis of their Christian faith.
Of course, few people do that anymore. Personally, I simply made New Year’s Resolutions in line with things i’ve been working on on a daily basis: spending more time reading the Bible, volunteering at my local hospital, and such.
But hey for some people, NYR’s give people a chance to focus on what matters to them. But yes, for anything to work, you’ve got to take them one step at a time!
To keep track of my finances a little better.
1. Get into the best shape of my life.
2. Write a Screenplay (well start one).
3. Spend more time learning new and interesting things.
My new year resolution is to focus on school work and watch more hotforwords
come here more often
oh yeah, from a fellow countryman:
MARINA MARINA MARINA
lose weight
in vino veritas
I want to find a word that Marina cannot explain.
I still love you though!!!
I’ll have a nephew born this year, so I really want to be there for him and my sister through the whole first child process. I want to maintain a 3.8 GPA. And I hope to stop eating foods with genetically altered materials. It’s going to be a busy year!
-Brent
More Hotforwords.
Outdoor Hotforwords.
More comercials as We have been watched you in FuelTV.
Hotforwords in new places: In a train, in a boat, in the beach…
Happy New Year.
I hope this year is to manage to start creating music since i love it so much.
(yes i am bragging and exaggerating 
!!)
!!!!! miarf !!!
To focus on my career and my uni studies (music is a hobby :)).
Find some good friends here in Scotland that i am, coz i have been a bit unlucky the last 3 years that i have moved. Or a nice girl whatever comes first, i am not demanding :wink:.
Be a better cook, although i kick ass in cooking
And on the silly/imaginary side of my resolution is to buy a baby tiger and raise it… tigers = BIG CATS with more intelligence and attitude
I’ve been skiing forever, but i want to give snowboarding a try. A lot of my friends snowboard and they all think i would pick it up quickly. So my New Year’s Resolution is to become a decent snowboarder.
My new years resolution is to work on and possibly finish projects I have started working on. Which includes a fan film I have been working on.
Some of my new years resolutions for this year would have to be:
1. To stay with my amazing boyfriend for as long as I can
2. To lose some weight.
3. Get better at drawing.
4. and to get better grades in school, and make my dad proud of me
My new years resolution is a few pretty easy ones, and a few not so easy ones.
Easy= 1. I want to get closer with my best friend Olivia
2. I want to remain with my boyfriend and make him happy
3. To do well in school =D
Hard=
1. Lose a
fewMANY</B pounds :\2. Get better at everything i do, just by a little bit!
3. Get better at sports, and always give 110%
LAST ONE: I want to get my username said on an episode of Hot For Words =D that would just rock!
my resolution is to dance more, like you
My New Years Resolution is to not make a New Years Resolution
Good luck with your resolution!
its going to take time.. thats for sure
2008 resolutions:
1) change job
2) learn spanish
3) become Marina’s boyfriend
That’s enough for a year…
Best wishes!
The Ponz
my new years resolutions are to argue with my husband less, be more positive, and to not be lazy and do what needs to be done without procrastinating(sp). also i would like to lose weight but i dont know if i’ll meet that goal.
2008 resolutions.
1) Get out of debt.
Find out what happen to resolutions number 6.
2) Train a monkey to speak fluent dutch.
3) Use the knowledge I gain from HotForWords lessons for the greater good of mankind.
4) Have fun.
5) Discover the perfect amount of time to microwave my left shoe so that it is comfy warm but not melting hot.
7) Buy a pirate hat. Cause everyone should have a pirate hat.
9) Tour the land spreading joy, cheer, and a touch of fun insanity.
10) Keep watching HotForWords videos and enjoying them.
Cheers & Happy New Years
Archbishop Billy
6) Buy scottish kilt to go with pirate hat !
My New Year’s Resolution is to write 2 novels, create a comic, make more music, and learn more to have a great start at college.
I want to lose weight….<3 Stop drinking soda, that kind of stuff. Also find a job, and start writing a play. ;ooo
Recommander ce site au plus grand nombre de personnes afin de leur faciliter l’apprentissage de la langue anglaise et leurs connaissances
My New Years Resolution is to get to know Marina more. One day I would love to meet her in person.
My NY resolution
1. Find and get a hot date!
2. Secure my career path
3. well-manage my money
4. Keep fit! Getting tired of being sick often
5. Learn a new skill
6. Start participating more on social volunteer work.
That’s the rough & unpolished goals for 2008!
6. Admirable and worthy ends.. giving of your soul. Good for you. Make Marina proud!
My NY resolution is to be a have more fun in my new life as a DAd!
1, Loose weight. bout 20 KG should do it, im way to heavy atm.
2, Get out from my computer more.
3, Keep the gymming up.
thats basicly what i got this year, how about you Marina? do you have any?
Mvh Martin.
my NY resolution:
goal: meet Marina
1. make some money
1.1. quit school
1.2. get a job
1.3. get a second job
1.4. get a third job
2. prepare myself
2.1. spend money on learning russian ( in case i get lost in russia )
2.2. spend money on gym ( in case of… whatever:) )
2.3. spend money on private detective ( to find out where does she live )
3. go to russia
3.1. rent a limousine
3.2. travel 2000km+ ( assuming she lives in moscow )
3.3. buy flowers
4. meet Marina
4.1. say Hi! to Marina
4.2. kiss Marina - oh, no… whats happening?… im waking up!… nooooo!!!
5. stop dreaming
Well I have a few very specific ones this year. Partly because it is my hope (ambition?) to go to Russia come May. So one of the tasks I have set myself is to learn to read Russian at least as well as I can speak it. And hopefully I’ll get to read (and understand) some poetry by Blok, Bely and Pushkin.
Along the way I want to start swimming again too. It has been far too many years since I have really concentrated on it and it has affected my health and mentality in more ways I care to mention.
I aim to be less distracted this year and begin to sort out the various threads of my life so they all complete rather than only partially.
And finally, I resolve to let my friends know how much they mean to me both now and always whenever I can.
Certainly enough to be going on with but well.. what is life if it is not full of dreams and ambition? On that dreamy note.. talking to you on the phone would be awesome
So what are you resolved to do this year Marina?
I plan to read a book a week. Eat more fruits and vegetables and stay away from fast foods and exercise more.
Thanks for the videos Marina.
pongman
one of the my new year resolution is learnin English very well that was actually my last year resolution
but i havent learned Enlish yet…
secondly i wanna fall in love with a girl who will be my future
i lost love along time ago…
finally i wanna go to abroad such as Madrid, Roma, Berlin, Paris, Wales, Schottland and whereever i can go
i hope i will achieve them….
Stop dreaming while I’m awake ^^ get out and live more!!
man i really feel you on this one! I actually made some progress and got some good momentum going- a world of difference in my life and how I feel about myself (in a very short time). I wish you the best. Life? Go get some! And while you’re at it, spread it around and see how good you can make other people feel.
Peace
ps.. and oh by the way.. what better to do it than hanging out with Marina?
I resolve too destress every aspect of my life. I will not bring my work home with me nor will I worry about things I have no control over.And of course the typical. lose weight , execise more , floss more often. And if B.B. King is in concert anywhere near me I’m going !
I’m going to learn Polish - get out more - and visit this site every day in the hope I get asked to stay behind to see teacher
I actually have a long list of resolutions, but here are a few:
(1) I’m going to get in shape
(2) I’m going to write more
(3) I’m going to make more videos for youtube
1. Continue my diet from last years resolution. I went from 225-160lbs, but the holidays kinda stopped my diet for the duration. Now I want to go from 160-145 this year!
2. Try to work out, but I am too lazy. This one won’t prolly ever get started.
3. Become a YouTube Superstar like Hotforwords
4. Hopefully meet a girl and find love.
What are yours, Ms. Hotforwords?
-Hunter Allen
225-160lbs that’ awesome and shows a can do attitude and I feel everybody here should join me in congratulating you for your achievement and also leave you messages of further support!
If you really want to work out? Then in the words of a very successful Scottish friend of mine just D’it! Don’t say what you believe you are, say what you aspire to be!
Turn it on its head by using the NLP technique of saying to yourself in the present tense, “I enjoy working out regularly, toning, looking after my body to maintain my target weight of 145, thus becoming more attractive to
tForWords Marina!” 
H
Keithanthony
Please visit my Blog
My resolution is simply but difficult. I am going to try not to fall in love with you this year. This is very hard to do because you are such a beautiful person in every sense of the word. You are amazing and you are right, smart is sexy and you are both, so that makes you Super Sexy!!
Have a great year Marina and thank you for the Xmas and New Years cards.
Last year I made a bunch of involved resolutions and only managed to stick with a couple, which caused me to feel poorly. So this year I resolve to eat at least one slice of chocolate cake. Then I will celebrate the attainment of my resolution with a second slice.
I love your enthusiasm! With a couple more lessons you’ll be able to call yourself “hotfordancing”.
My New Year resolutions are to keep going to the gym atleast an hour a day, Im also going to quit drinking, and smoking cigarettes. But my biggest resolution is to start my music career now, to build my studio and get it going.
I know staying with resolutions are hard, but thats because people need to make realistic goals, you have to set small goals to accomplish, which lead to that bigger goal in the end. Just droppin some advice for the people who are seeking it. Well thank you and hope everybody has a good year in 2008!
Peace!
Thanks for the New Year Card, a bit of spice on a cold winter day.
I am resolving to be a more attentive entrepenuer by challenging myself daily.
Thanks for letting me in Marina.
I’m resolving to do a better job of getting to know more knew people and networking just for the adventure of looking.
Oh you are the Teacher
Hi, it’s me RioB24. My New Year’s Resolution is to quit drinking coffee (gets me shaky) and drinking liquor. I have to smoke when Im drinking coffee or liquor, so if I could quit drinking these drugs, I know I could stop smoking cigarettes. But I know its all mind over matter.
Good data on resolutions. I want my news website newsconomy.com to get up to 10,000 registered users this year. It has 24 registered users so far! Thanks to you video, I’m breaking it down some tonight on how to go about doing that. I also want to get completely out of debt.
wow
I resolve to show my wife more love & spend more time with her in “08″. Now 2 lessons in one day + homework, you’re giving my first test. If I skip class one day do I need a note? If so I hope to be naughtyfied when a new lesson is prepared, so I can catch up with your “A” students.
New years resolutions are absolutely the worst plan since for things to get better you simply have to change, if you need to change you have need of change NOW!
It is 02nd of January so it is already too late for new year resolution however by making a decision to make a new year resolution, you are making an advanced plan for failure! You are deciding for TODAY that “I am not capable!”
When your appointed day arrives it will again, and always will be TODAY, which is always with us since the future never arrives, and the past is always lost to regret!
When I was in the aftermath of a Coma I did not say to myself when I was told I was now paralysed, that I would wait until new years day or the end of the month to show them they were wrong! I didn’t even start working on making my change TODAY!
I started working on it “IMMEDIATELY” with what I thought and believed and held to be true in my heart! I fixed my mind on a can do regime, and shut out any thoughts I had of failure while at the time I was not only paralysed, I had everybody around me in the hospital, well meaning people telling me to QUIT trying! I went from Paralysed to walking out after three months because I made a decision and focused on that decision in little bite sized pieces! When I started I had a frustrating nil result, after all I was paralysed! However I was not swayed and positive self talk instead of allowing myself to become demoralised was just a small step that I took each day!
I took me less effort to be positive than it did to be negative since it caused me no additional distress and eventually one day the sudden twitch of my left big toe signalled the fruits of my efforts that returned me to my feet!
If I can overcome not only a COMA, AMNESIA so bad I didn’t know what people were, and PARALYSIS, by making a decision right now to make a change then so can you, simply by deciding what it is that you genuinely want!
Then write it down where you can see it, believe it, and share this idea with friends and family so that they can give you encouragement and support! I had no support, nothing, Nada, Zip, Nil! Imagine how much easier it will be for you with support!
Always remember nobody fails an attempt they QUIT, so my advice is don’t quit! You may have set backs but they don’t matter if you stay on the road, and keep going always remember he who never made a mistake never made anything! Similarly he/She who Quit never finished anything!
I wish you not luck but your own resolve, the human spirit for I have been privileged to witness the awesome power of it!
Keithanthony
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This is for writing COMMENTS, dude, not essays.
ex, I desagree. U can’t say much with a 3-sentence comment : / But happy new years 2 U
Thank you Dawsn-411! Why not tell us then what you achieved already ex_penumbrae you sound like quite the Guru?
Happy New Year 2 You my friend
My new years resolution is to become State champion at least in Boxing and loose a little bit of weight.
Spend more time with some of my family, focus more on school, study smarter.
Michael
ps Good luck to all on your Resolutions.
Mine are to start making YouTube videos and also to study harder in the HotForWords class!
I want to reconnect with people I haven’t talked to in a while.
-youtube.com/donaldrocks
I started getting more people’s cell numbers and we text occasionally. Eventually we’ll get to hanging out.