In no particular order:
- Greet your loved ones and friends and anyone else you hold dear. Maybe even those you disagree with
- Ponder why people give so much significance to the transition between an arbitrarily-chosen pair of 24 hour periods
- Take stock and reflect on the past year
- Think about what you’d like to learn this year or how you want to improve
- Count your blessings for the past year and be grateful
- Change your passwords
- Buy a new toothbrush
- Make a New Year’s joke (“My New Year’s Resolution is 1440×900!")
- Set a target of how many books you’ll read in 2017
- Choose the first book to read
- Throw away a few things you no longer need
- Make a list of where you will travel to in 2017
- Check out what movies are coming out this year and which ones you want to watch
- Audit your financials – where is your money going, how much do you owe, how much are you earning, where should you invest, etc
- Make another New Year’s joke (“I haven’t taken a bath since last year!")
- Pick up your keyboard and shake out all the grime that’s gathered there over the past year
- Make a list of projects you want to do in 2017
- Choose something from the past year that you’re going to stop watching or doing
- Eat your favorite food. Or ice cream. Ice cream is great.
- Remember that there’s a new episode of Sherlock today (well January 1 in the UK)
- Get rid of 2016 calendars
- Make a list for the new year!
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