Making the Most of Your New Year's Resolution

 

Along with all the good times with mates, barbecues, sunshine and road-tripping, the New Year period is also the time when we often look back on how the last year went for us and set goals for what we want to do in the next year.

New Year's resolutions can be goals like getting better marks at school, saving enough to buy a car or joining new sports or social clubs. We all have different things that are of most importance to us personally.

Whilst it can be pretty easy to come up with some New Year's resolutions, it is way harder to actually achieve the goals we set ourseleves!

Take a look at these handy tips, which will help you to achieve those goals you have set for 2012.

Good luck!

 

 

Dream of getting a record deal?

NZ Music Month.  It's back for 2010!  And they're giving you the chance to win stuff by either writing a NZ Music month song, or designing a tee.   Sound interesting? 

Then CLICK HERE!

Just a spoonful of sugar...

If you're like us, you may have eaten a bit too much sugar these holidays. That's what holidays are about?!?

But is it so out of control, you need to be warned in the same way they show smokers pictures of dirty gross lungs?

Thats what some Medical Association experts are thinking- obesity is out of control, and shock tactics are needed. New York has already started with stomach-churning ads depicting people drinking body fat or shovelling down sugar sachets. The hope is they make burgers and soft drinks less tempting. Why? because just one sugary soft drink a day over a year could make a person up to five kgs heavier and increase the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

This guy (Dr Kausman) disagrees- ''People already feel judged and shamed and if we pour more of that on top of then it's just going to make the situation worse'.' The full articles here.

What do you think? Do you think before you eat?

This clip is one of the more tamer ones.

WANTED: checkm8 Online Content Co-ordinator

checkm8 is looking for a guru to work alongside the team updating the site. Each week you’ll be sourcing and creating content, editing and uploading articles, creating polls, embedding media, and keeping on top of emails and comments. It’s busy work, but can be done from where you like, when you like. And you get to be creative and use that imagination of yours!

To apply for this position you must be familiar with social media applications, basic editing software, preferably with some writing experience. You’ll have strong communication skills, an eye for design and detail, the ability to work unsupervised, and pick up new concepts and skills quickly. And we’d really like it if you really liked youth.

Send us an email using the ‘contact’ page saying who you are and why you’d be good. We’ll take it from there…woop! Do it now! (Closing Date is Tues 1st Mar)

Palmy - We are Famous As!

Think back just over three weeks to one of N.Z's great sporting moments - beating South Africa at the cricket World Cup.

Jacob Oram was named man of the match with his 4 wickets, and Jamie How caught the final catch. Both local boys. Palmy represent!

So that got me asking myself - I wonder who else has come from Palmy and gone on to do cool stuff, become famous, get rich and make us proud?

And the answer to my question was, well, heaps of people. It seems Palmy is the old hang out for many famous Kiws. Judy Bailey, Clark Gayford, Shane Cortese, Fred Dagg and heaps more.