8 Tips of New Year’s Resolutions

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Productivity & Positivity

6 min readDec 28, 2020

Generate your 2020 TickTick Memory and set goals for 2021!

As 2020 has officially come to the end, some may have already engaged themselves in re-evaluation on things completed and changes made throughout the year. Looking back to last year’ resolution and seeing what has been ticked off is always a good way to do that, so is listing what you did well and what you didn’t. To help you do that, 2020 TickTick Memory is coming soon! You’ll not only be able to quickly generate your TickTick 2020 year-in-review, but can also write down your 2021 resolution at the same time in the list we create for you!

Your 2020 TickTick Memory

Generally, there will be 3 parts in the review, regarding Task completion, Focus and Habit tracking data respectively. Some of the most curious questions will be covered, such as:

How many tasks have I completed this year?
How long have I been focused on my tasks?
What time in a day is my most productive hour?
What is the habit that I insisted for the longest time?

More surprisingly, apart from the review itself, another handy feature we’ve added in the review is a 2021 resolution list! You can write down your 2021 goals immediately after reading the review and this list will then automatically be added and kept in your TickTick. Have a sneak peek!👀

Ideas and tips for 2021 resolutions

Based on your 2020 Memory TickTick has generated for you, it becomes much easier to nail out your 2021 goals, because you’re now in the know of your own productivity flow and task completion capacity. Here in the following are 8 common resolution ideas we’ve prepared for you, together with some tips on how to reach them.

1. Beat procrastination

Procrastination is perhaps one of the biggest struggles of people living in this modern society, either at study or workplace. It is not just a bad habit, but actually a psychological syndrome concerning people’s inner fear, expectations, doubts and pressures. Procrastination usually comes in the forms of feeling unmotivated to start doing any tasks despite knowing clearly there’s a deadline, or putting things off and off again till the last minute. We all know this is unhealthy because of the mental sufferings it causes. Therefore, finding roots of why we procrastinate and ways to tackle it is an important goal that should be on the resolution! This article will prepare you with everything you need to know about procrastination.

2. Increase focus and productivity

Being focused is a way to become more productive, and being productive speeds up one’s way of reaching their goals. Therefore, this should be a fundamental skill required for achieving other resolutions. It is also something that can be practiced through time. You might have been familiar with some tricks already, but here I’d like to mention the 3 most essential things that you should at least know:

Pomodoro technique — Best way to help you stay focused.
White Noises — Soothing your mind and avoiding distractions.
A Flow state — Being “in the zone” with full immersion.

3. Manage your time well

24-hour a day remains the same for everyone, but the meaning of life relies on how we spend our time. However, the truth is most people still lack the awareness and skills of managing their time well and getting things done. Complying to GTD methodology, TickTick is such a tool that intends to help you gain more control over your time and life in many different ways, and one of the many is “Time Blocking”. By cutting your day into different blocks and putting your tasks and events into these blocks with a built-in Calendar in TickTick, your time is boxed and everything could be well planned out.

“Eat That Frog” is another useful method to help manage time. “Frog” means the most important task, and “Eat That Frog” means doing that task first thing at the start of your workday. Successfully eating that frog will carry you into the momentum for the rest of your day, which will not only make sure you’ve spent your most focused hours on the high-value task, but also increase the efficiency when working on those less-important ones.

4. Be more mindful of life

Being mindful simply means living in the present. It focuses your attention on what’s happening now, instead of looking backwards to the past or anticipating too much about the future. It is a way to soothe yourself and achieve greater happiness as you get more and more aware of the nowness. To practice mindfulness, one can simply start from mindfulness meditation. Learn more or create a meditation habit from today in your TickTick!

5. Keep things minimal

Minimalism is another concept that we’ve heard often over these recent years. It is a less-is-more mindset and lifestyle, by trimming all unnecessary things out of our life, whether they are personal belongings, mental burdens or digital clutters. The golden principle embedded is to live to the minimal and keep things dead simple. Having that mindset can help us in many ways, and on top of that, it reduces mental pressures, especially when living in such a commercial and highly competitive world. Although starting a minimal life is not a must but at least it is something beneficial. Learn more about minimalism.

6. Eat a healthy diet

“Eating healthy” is commonly seen on most people’s resolution. Indeed, it seems so easy to be said but not that easy to be actually executed. What drags us back is usually our inertness and lack of plans. To counter that, skills of sticking to a habit and tools to help us keep track of the habit are quite essential. “21/90” principle is such a method that tells about how to form a new habit — 21 days to establish a new habit and 90 days to make it stick. Yet, a complete habit-forming process requires more than that. Learn more:

7. Develop a side hustle

If it was last year, I might not even mention “developing a side business” as a new year’s resolution, but things have changed unprecedentedly due to the COVID-19 crisis. Remote working has become the next normal and a lot of physical opportunities have vapored. It then becomes important to have a simple side hustle/project to enhance your financial stability and get you through any difficult times. Learn more about the benefits and methods of having a slash career.

8. Spend more time with family

Family time is always what needs to be cherished. The company and emotional support from family cannot be compared with other feelings and is always what gets us through tough times. Spending more time with family, even if it’s just a simple Sunday meal, or a small gift sharing. Being grateful and expressing love as much as possible is perhaps the biggest resolution that I should suggest to everyone for 2021.

Well, since you’ve got there — a bunch of ideas, tips and resources to help you review the past year and see your New Year’s resolution through. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Don’t forget to check back on 2020 TickTick Memory later in the app (coming next week)! We’ll see you there:)