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How to Kiss Someone on New Year’s Eve

Howcast — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:30:29 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Attend a singles event Attend the largest singles event you can find — most communities have them. Or head to Times Square in New York City; with one million revelers, surely you can find someone suitable to kiss at midnight. Other cities with big New Year’s Eve blowouts include Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, and Edinburgh.
TIP: If you can afford it, consider booking a New Year’s singles cruise.
Step 2: Be kissable Be kissable: It’s even more important than knowing how to kiss. Brush and floss your teeth to perfection, and don’t forget mouthwash. Carry mints for a quick refresher.
TIP: Ladies, go easy on the lipstick and gloss; a shiny red mouth may look pretty, but it’s less inviting to actually kiss.
Step 3: Scope out the room Scope out the room well before midnight. Strike up conversations with everyone who looks like a good kissing candidate.
Step 4: Be flirty When you find someone you like, tell them in your most suggestive voice that you really know how to kiss and just might prove it to them at midnight. How they react should help you gauge whether you should keep flirting or move on.
Step 5: Be bold When the clock strikes midnight, say “Happy New Year!” to whomever you fancy and move in for the kiss. As long as you keep your tongue to yourself and your lips don’t overstay their welcome, you should be fine. Good luck!
FACT: More Americans kiss a pet than a person on New Year’s Eve, according to one poll.

You Will Need

New Year’s Eve gathering
Fresh breath
Flirting skills
Boldness
New Year’s singles cruise (optional)

How to Say “Happy New Year” in Different Languages

Howcast — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:46:45 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Say it in French Say “Happy New Year” in French: Bonne Année!
Step 2: Give the greeting in German Bestow New Year wishes in German: Gluckliches neues Jahr!
Step 3: Say it in Chinese Say it in standard, or Mandarin, Chinese: Xin Nian Kuai Le
TIP: The Chinese language has many dialects, so pronunciations vary from region to region.
Step 4: Tell it to an Italian Say “Happy New Year” to an Italian: Buon anno!
Step 5: Wish it in Russian Wish Happy New Year in Russian: Snovum Go-dum
Step 6: Give your salutation in Spanish Say it in Spanish: Feliz Ano Nuevo!
Step 7: Give greeting in Japanese Give a New Year’s greeting in Japanese: Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu
FACT: The classic New Year’s song “Auld Lang Syne” began as a poem written by Scottish writer Robert Burns in 1788.

You Will Need

Memorization
Pronunciation

How to Follow New Year’s Superstitions

Howcast — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:30:53 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Kiss Kiss your lover at midnight. Among the most popular superstitions followed on New Year’s, this isn’t just a celebratory kiss. If you don’t kiss your significant other at the stroke of midnight, you risk losing their affection for the rest of the year.
Step 2: Stock up and pay bills Stock up on everything in the house and pay off your bills. Fill the cupboards and pantry, stuff your wallet with cash, and start the year debt-free to ensure that the year is a prosperous one.
Step 3: Make some noise Make a lot of noise at midnight. Open all of the doors to let the old year out and make as much noise as possible to scare away the Devil and other evil spirits.
Step 4: Don’t leave until someone has entered Don’t leave your house on New Year’s Day until someone else has entered. Known as the “first footing” superstition, you will have good luck if the first person to enter the house doesn’t have crossed eyes, flat feet, or a unibrow. It also helps if they’re a tall, good-looking, dark-haired man with gifts including coal, bread, a silver coin, salt, and an evergreen sprig.
TIP: First-footers with blond or red hair bring bad luck.
Step 5: Nothing goes out Don’t take anything — anything! — out of the house on January 1st if you don’t want to spend the year paying, giving, loaning, and losing things and people. Some people think it’s okay to take something out if something is brought in first, but why risk it?
TIP: Don’t break anything in the house or you risk having a year filled with wreckage.
Step 6: Eat black-eyed peas, lentils, and pork Eat black-eyed peas on the first of the year to bring good luck and prosperity. Also, eat lentil soup and pork, because lentils look like coins and, unlike chickens, which scratch backward and cows, which stand still, pigs root forward into the new year.
Step 7: Know wind direction Check the wind after midnight. If it blows from the south, expect money and happiness. Wind from the north portends a year of foul weather. From the east is famine and bad luck, and from the west brings milk and fish, but the death of someone important. No wind indicates a happy and prosperous year, so hope for a still night and have a happy New Year.
FACT: The earliest New Year celebrations occurred in Mesopotamia around 2000 BCE.

You Will Need

Kiss
Groceries
Cash
Noise
First footer
Black eyed peas
Lentil soup
Pork
Wind direction

How to Celebrate Chinese New Year

Howcast — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:02:01 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Get the details Find the next date of Chinese New Year, which changes with the lunar cycle. Learn which of the 12 zodiac animals is associated with that year’s celebration.
Step 2: Clean up Before the Chinese New Year arrives, clean your house, and settle any outstanding debts with friends. According to tradition, this helps the new year get off to a fresh start.
TIP: Clean the headstones of deceased relatives and friends to ensure spiritual favor.
Step 3: Eat up Get together with friends and family on the eve of Chinese New Year for a reunion dinner, a large, celebratory feast. Make a batch of nian gao, steamed cakes made with rice flour, which are said to bring good luck.
Step 4: Go shopping Buy new, red clothes to wear throughout the Chinese New Year celebration; the color is considered lucky.
Step 5: Give gifts Give red envelopes filled with money to friends and relatives to invite success and generosity into everyone’s lives. Use an amount ending in 8, which is particularly lucky in Chinese culture, and avoid the number 4.
Step 6: March Attend a Chinese New Year parade, one of the most popular ways to celebrate the holiday’s hopeful spirit. You can also light firecrackers and bang drums and gongs to celebrate.
: Only use firecrackers or fireworks under close supervision. Know the laws governing explosives where you live.
Step 7: Light up the night On the 15th night of the new year, light a red paper lantern to mark the end of the holiday. Then, wish your friends and family “Gong Xi Fa Tsai,” and prepare for 12 months of prosperity and luck.
FACT: In 1980, the Chinese were the 10th-largest immigrant group in the U.S.; by 2006, they had become the third-largest.

You Will Need

Date
Traditional foods
New
red clothing
Red envelopes
Red
paper lantern
Firecrackers (optional)
Drums and gongs (optional)

How to Ring in the New Year Right

Howcast — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:04:42 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Sign a contract Help a resolution stick by creating a commitment contract: put aside some money with a trusted friend or relative, and resolve to make good on your promise within a set period. When the time’s up, if you haven’t kept your vow, the money goes to charity. People who used this technique to quit smoking increased their likelihood of succeeding by 30 percent over those who didn’t.
Step 2: Forgive someone Forgive someone. People who let go of past resentments may end up feeling less angry overall and may be less likely to feel depressed. In one study, chronic back pain sufferers experienced marked relief after practicing a forgiveness meditation.
Step 3: Start a diary Ring in the new year by starting a diary. Research has indicated that journal writing may help you identify the causes of your anxiety, increase mental focus and memory, and improve your ability to cope with upsetting or difficult experiences.
TIP: If you made a resolution to lose weight, a food diary can help you stick to your diet.
Step 4: Spend less than you make Make this the year you begin living below your means so you can start paying down any debts and start building up emergency and retirement funds; creating a budget can help. Make saving easier by setting up automatic contributions.
Step 5: Splurge on flowers Resolve to surround yourself with flowers in the new year: one study showed people have less anxiety and are more compassionate in the presence of fresh flowers at home, and they were likely to feel happier even while at work. Buy or plant them for yourself, and send them to loved ones.
Step 6: Take baby steps Break down a long-standing goal into several smaller ones and track your progress, so that this time next year you’re toasting your successes instead of making the same old resolutions.
FACT: The early Romans celebrated March 1 as the first day of the year until Julius Caesar moved it to January 1 in the year 45 BCE.

You Will Need

Commitment contract
Forgiveness
Diary
Budget
Savings contributions
Flowers
Baby steps
Food diary (optional)

How to Make Spending New Year’s Eve at Home More Fun

Howcast — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:04:42 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Do what you like Throw out any preconceived ideas of what you “should” be doing on New Year’s Eve; there’s no law that says you have to drink champagne or watch the ball drop at midnight.
Step 2: Splurge on a decadent meal Splurge on a decadent home-cooked meal: Even luxury foods are a bargain when you consider how much you’d pay at a restaurant — especially on New Year’s Eve, when prices are usually jacked up.
TIP: If you’re ordering in, get it early; New Year’s Eve is one of the biggest takeout nights of the year, so kitchens get backed up.
Step 3: Attend a show Instead of watching predictable televised New Year’s Eve celebrations, rent a concert or Broadway show. If you have a large flat-screen TV, you’ll feel like you’re actually there — only with a better view of the stage, more comfortable seats, and tastier snacks.
Step 4: Create an arcade Turn your home or garage into an arcade for the night by renting some games and tables; companies in many cities rent them out. To find one, type “rent arcade games” and your location into a search engine.
Step 5: Feel smug As the evening progresses, congratulate yourself for avoiding obnoxious crowds, price gouging, uncomfortable party clothes, unwelcome kisses, noisemakers, silly hats, and a potential stay in the local drunk tank.
Step 6: Go to bed Don’t feel obligated to stay up until midnight unless you want to. After all, the New Year is already nearly a day old in Kiribati, a South Pacific island nation that’s the first place in the world to ring it in. So if you live anywhere else, you’re just playing catch up anyway.
FACT: Legendary bandleader Guy Lombardo began the tradition of playing the song “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve on December 31, 1929, when his orchestra played it on a New Year’s radio broadcast.

You Will Need

Decadent food
Concert or Broadway show
Arcade games
Self-satisfaction

How to Make New Year’s Party Glasses

Howcast — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:03:18 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Sketch a design Using a pair of your own glasses, lay one of the earpieces flat on a 20-inch piece of sketch paper, and trace its outline. Then, tilt the glasses until the front of the lenses are resting on the paper, and trace the lens outline. Tilt again to trace the other earpiece. You should now have a flat outline of your glasses.
Step 2: Make eye openings Draw circles in the center of the sketch for eye openings. Cut out the circles.
TIP: For extra flair, draw different shapes for the eyeholes, like hearts, stars, or octagons.
Step 3: Draw the new year in numbers Sketch the number of the new year around these openings. Add designs to the top of the prototype, above the lenses.
Step 4: Make cutouts Cut around the numbers so they stand out.
Step 5: Try on the glasses Try on the glasses to see how they look. Make sure the eye holes are big enough for you to see through and in the correct location, and check that the sides fit securely over your ears.
TIP: You may have to make several sketches before you get a perfect prototype.
Step 6: Trace sketch onto cardboard Once you have a good prototype, trace it onto the cardboard or poster paper and make the cutouts.
Step 7: Decorate Decorate however you like. Now go ring in the New Year in style!
FACT: In 1991, two guys who noticed that the nines in 1991 provided perfect eyeholes invented the popular number New Year’s Eve glasses.

You Will Need

A pair of sunglasses
Drawing paper
A pencil
Scissors
Cardboard or poster paper
Decorations

How to Host a Budget New Year’s Eve Party

Howcast — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:17:35 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Limit the bar Limit the bar to beer, wine, and one signature cocktail. Have just enough champagne for everyone to take a few sips at midnight.
TIP: Serve Spanish Cava sparkling wine instead of champagne; it’s less expensive, but few will be able to tell the difference.
Step 2: Use discounted paper products Buy holiday-themed paper products after Christmas, when they’re steeply discounted. Look for stuff with generic winter themes, instead of Santa or Christmas trees.
Step 3: Skip the dinner Invite guests on the later side so you can serve drinks and snacks instead of a full dinner. Plan munchies around what’s available at the dollar store.
Step 4: Make inexpensive eats look elegant Make inexpensive foods look elegant by focusing on presentation. Serve the food on decorative platters or in creative ways.
Step 5: Buy fresh flowers Get several bouquets of an inexpensive flower in one color, and put them in vases around the party area.
Step 6: Use tea lights Buy tea-light candles in bulk and float them in bowls of various shapes and sizes.
FACT: Ethiopia follows a Roman-era calendar, which is seven years behind the standard calendar, so they welcomed the year 2000 in 2007.

You Will Need

A limited bar
Discounted paper products
Dollar-store snacks
Inexpensive flowers
Tea-light candles

How to Find a Date for New Year’s Eve

Howcast — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:33:47 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Get the word out Send an email to everyone in your address book asking if they know someone who might want to ring in the New Year with you, no strings attached.
Step 2: Book a singles getaway Book a singles getaway sometime in mid-December. You’ll meet plenty of other people anxious to connect—and there won’t be enough time for you to break up before New Year’s!
TIP: If you can’t afford a trip, take a holiday-season retail job. Hey, everybody has to buy gifts.
Step 3: Become a social butterfly Attend every holiday party that comes your way, even if you are: a) exhausted, b) not in the mood, c) positive it’s going to be a bore.
TIP: Instead of zoning out or IM’ing your friends when you’re out and about, smile at attractive strangers.
Step 4: Try internet dating Try internet dating. If you’re already a member of a service, find some new faces by taking advantage of free trials with their competitors in the weeks leading up to New Year’s.
TIP: Maximize your opportunities by setting up as many quickie dates as you can—meet people for breakfast, lunch, afternoon coffee, evening drinks. And arrive early—you never know who else you might meet!
Step 5: Attend a singles’ party If all else fails, attend a singles’ party on New Year’s Eve. It might not be the intimate night you’d hoped for, but you just may find someone special to kiss at midnight.
FACT: According to a survey, Northeastern residents spend the most money celebrating New Year’s Eve, while Westerners spend the least.

You Will Need

Determination
And boldness
A singles getaway weekend (optional)
And a holiday season job (optional)

How to Throw a New Year’s Eve Party

Howcast — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:03:10 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Invite guests Come up with a diverse guest list of fun people, then mail or email invitations at least four weeks in advance.
TIP: To shake things up, choose a theme—like Breakfast at Tiffany’s or The Roaring Twenties—and instruct your guests to dress accordingly.
Step 2: Plan a menu Plan a menu of appetizers that people can munch throughout the night, but think beyond chips and dip. Even if you’re no top chef, platters of cheeses, nuts, cold meats, bread, and crackers are always popular.
TIP: To insure variety, encourage guests to bring a favorite appetizer.
Step 3: Buy booze Buy booze, booze, and more booze. The most popular choices are beer, wine, and vodka. Figure four or five drinks per guest and, of course, champagne to pop at midnight. Don’t forget the ice—one 16-ounce bag per guest.
TIP: Consider hiring a bartender for the evening.
Step 4: Buy party essentials It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without noisemakers, streamers or confetti, and party hats, so put them on your shopping list, along with that stuff that’s easy to forget—mixers, garnishes, stirrers, and nonalcoholic drinks.
Step 5: Assess your plates and utensils Make sure you have enough cups, plates, cutlery, and napkins for everyone.
TIP: Dollar stores are a great place to pick up wine glasses; buy a variety of styles to help guests keep their drinks straight.
Step 6: Pick music Make several long mixes or a playlist of fun, upbeat music so you can concentrate on dancing instead of babysitting the stereo.
Step 7: Greet guest As guests arrive, make sure there’s a place designated to stow their coats and bags, and get a drink into their hand right away.
Step 8: Propose a toast A minute or two before midnight, lower the music and propose a brief toast for the new year. A popular one is, “May all your joy be true joy and may all your pain be champagne.”
Step 9: Count down Direct the revelers’ attention to a clock with a second hand or a live TV countdown to tick off the last ten seconds in unison, then cue a recording to “Auld Lang Syne” and continue partying like it’s 1999.
FACT: Champagne—especially the cheap kind—causes the worst hangovers!

You Will Need

Guests
A selection of appetizers
Ample alcohol
Party favors
And good music

How to Throw a Champagne Brunch

Howcast — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:14:10 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Invite your guests a month in advance. Spare yourself from being inundated with calls by marking the invitation ‘Regrets Only.’
Step 2: Plan your menu. Because brunch is a meal that serves as both breakfast and lunch, it can be anything from a simple selection of breads and pastries to steak and eggs.
Step 3: Pick wines that go with your menu. As long as you have enough champagne for a toast, you needn’t be a slave to champagne if other kinds of wine would better complement your meal. Your local wine merchant can advise you.
TIP: Plan on one bottle of wine or champagne for every two or three people.
Step 4: Have orange juice on hand for Mimosas; peach nectar to make Bellinis; and tomato juice and vodka for guests who might like Bloody Marys or Virgin Marys.
TIP: Sparkling wine, which is less expensive than the wine that gets its name from the Champagne region of France, works fine.
Step 5: Keep dessert light, especially if your brunch includes lots of breads and pastries. Consider putting out bowls of berries and arranging fine chocolates on a tiered platter.
Step 6: Whip some fresh cream to serve with coffee. Offer rock candy stirrers and chocolate spoons. Have a variety of teas on hand. Decorate plates with edible flowers and vegetable garnishes, like radish roses.
Step 7: Do as much food preparation as you can ahead of time. Don’t forget to chill the champagne!
Step 8: Give yourself plenty of time to get ready before your guests arrive. Careful planning will let you relax when your guests arrive. Cheers!
FACT: Brunches first started in Britain around the 1890s but didn’t catch on in the U.S. until the 1930s.

You Will Need

Champagne
Orange juice
Peach nectar
Coffee
Tea
Food
Tables
Champagne flutes and juice glasses
Plates
Flatware
A coffee pot
A teapot
Coffee and tea cups
Chairs
Invitations
Flowers

How to Buy Alcohol for a Party

Howcast — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:25:33 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Decide what kind of party you’ll be throwing. You’ll need less alcohol for a lunch party than for a cocktail or dinner party.
: Don’t drink unless you’re of legal age. Drink responsibly, and never drink and drive.
Step 2: Make a guest list. Who and how many you invite will determine what types of alcohol and how much to buy.
Step 3: Decide how much alcohol to serve. As a rule of thumb, allow two drinks per guest for the first hour of your party, and one drink per guest for each additional hour.
TIP: Most people will have two or three drinks at a party in the evening. If you allow four drinks per guest, you should have more than enough.
Step 4: Plan to buy a combination of beer, wine, and liquor. Provide a variety of liquors, such as scotch, vodka, and gin, plus the appropriate mixers.
TIP: A guideline for a large party is 50 percent beer, 25 percent wine, and 25 percent liquor.
Step 5: Figure out how many servings you’ll get from each bottle of wine, champagne, or liquor you buy. If you buy beer in a keg, you’ll need to know how many servings that holds, too.
Step 6: Adjust these ratios for your guests. For example, if many of your friends prefer wine, you’ll want to buy more wine and less beer or liquor.
TIP: Allow for 12 ounces per serving for beer, 5 ounces for wine, 4 ounces for champagne, and 1½ ounces for liquor.
Step 7: Consider hiring a bartender for a very large party. Ask them to order the supplies and help ensure that no one drinks too much.
FACT: Did you know? The most expensive party ever thrown was in November 2008, at a cost of $35 million, to celebrate the opening of the new Atlantis resort in Dubai.

You Will Need

A plan
A head count
A budget
A calculator

How to Spend New Year’s Eve Alone

Howcast — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:46:45 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Rent some videos Arrive at the video store five minutes before closing and agonize over the remaining DVDs: ‘Dora the Explorer’, ‘Bonanza’ and a German movie about people crying. Take all three — now is not the time to be proud.
Step 2: Open the champagne Upon returning home, open the bottle of champagne to alleviate your crushing disappointment.
Step 3: Make party favors Fashion New Year’s hats from paper plates and decorate with leftover holiday ribbons and bows. Fill empty coffee cans with handfuls of coins. Cover and shake. Voila – noisemakers! Reward your creative triumph by starting in on a second bottle of champagne.
TIP: No coffee cans or coins? No problem! Just bang some pots and pans every now and then.
Step 4: Dine like royalty Skip the usual ‘cereal for dinner’ and decide to make a big, comforting bowl of pasta primavera – only to realize you have no pasta, no vegetables, and no sauce. Curse the ‘You Will Need’ section.
Step 5: Get some take-out Get take-out for dinner instead. Search for take-out menus. Where are they? Maybe additional champagne will help you find them.
TIP: Quadruple your usual take-out order, like you’re expecting guests, to avoid a pitying look from delivery boy.
Step 6: Start drunk dialing Call your most recent significant other under the guise of ‘just wishing you a happy new year.’ Maintain composure when the person repeatedly says ‘Who? Who is this? I don’t know anyone by that name,’ while another voice in the background urges them to hang up and come back to bed.
TIP: Dial 67 before calling former lovers to disable caller ID. They might know it’s you, but they can’t prove it.
Step 7: Par-tay Don a homemade party hat and put the remainder on your pets. You can tell they like it by the growling and hissing. That third bottle of champagne isn’t going to open itself, you know.
Step 8: Pass out Lie down on the couch shortly before midnight and promptly pass out, missing the big moment. Wake up at 4 am with a throbbing headache and a horrible taste in your mouth. Stumble to the bathroom. Here’s to next year!
FACT: Seven percent of Americans don’t bother celebrating New Year’s Eve.

You Will Need

Plenty of champagne
Paper plates
Decorations
Empty coffee cans
Coins
Pots and pans
Music

How to Build a Champagne Tower

Howcast — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:04:00 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Find a table Find a sturdy, steady table on which you can build your fountain.
Step 2: Crunch the numbers Figure out how many glasses you’ll need in order to both accommodate your guests and ensure that your tower doesn’t tumble. Each square layer must become proportionately smaller than the last, so if your base is five rows of five glasses, the next layer must be four by four, and so on.
TIP: A standard-size Champagne bottle will provide about five glasses of bubbly.
Step 3: Get proper glasses Get coupe Champagne glasses, which are the old-fashioned round ones.
TIP: Use plastic Champagne glasses if you’re nervous about your tower collapsing.
Step 4: Begin construction Evenly align each glass in the bottom layer so that they touch each other, creating a diamond-shaped space between glasses.
Step 5: Build the stories Place the next layer of glasses so that the glass stems are centered over the diamond-shaped spaces.
Step 6: Repeat Repeat until just one glass stands on the top.
Step 7: Fill the fountain Pour Champagne into the top glass, and continue pouring until the Champagne has trickled down to fill every glass.
Step 8: Time to toast! Gather your guests, hand everyone a glass—starting with the one on top and moving on down—and offer a toast. Cheers!
FACT: The grapes used for Champagne must be hand-picked because a bruised one can affect the color.

You Will Need

A sturdy table
Coupe (or round) Champagne glasses
Champagne
sparkling wine
or sparkling cider

How to Set & Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions

Howcast — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:04:00 +0000

Instructions

Step 1: Start out small Choose attainable goals. Setting the bar too high only invites failure.
Step 2: Write them down Write down what you hope to achieve. You may feel silly, but research shows that people who write down their resolutions are more likely to keep them.
Step 3: Go public Tell everyone your plans. It will help shame you into following through, plus you’ll have your loved ones cheering you on.
TIP: Try joining on online support group, especially if your goal is to lose weight— America’s most popular resolution. One study found that those with around-the-clock support lost twice the weight of those who went it alone.
Step 4: Stay positive Think of your resolution in positive terms. For example, instead of saying, ‘I’m not going to smoke anymore,’ think, ‘I’m getting healthy.’
Step 5: Give it three weeks Try to stick to your goal for 21 days. Research shows it takes that long to change or break a habit, so if you can hold on for just three weeks, you’ll greatly increase your chance of success.
Step 6: Don’t sweat slipups If you cheat, forgive yourself and continue on. Don’t make one slipup an excuse to give up altogether.
FACT: According to a survey, procrastination is the number-one reason people don’t keep their New Year’s resolutions, followed by lack of discipline and not having a game plan.

You Will Need

Attainable goals
A written plan
Positive thinking
Three weeks of discipline
Self-forgiveness
An online support group