1. THOUGHT FOR
THE DAY
Looking forward:
Making Resolutions

2. New Year’s Resolutions
A New Year's resolution is a tradition in which a person resolves to change an undesired trait or behaviour, to accomplish a personal goal or otherwise improve their life.
A study has found that 46% of participants who make common New Year's resolutions (e.g. weight loss, exercise programs, quitting smoking) are likely to succeed

3. Resolution Ideas
Improve physical well-being: eat healthy food, lose weight, exercise more, eat better, drink less alcohol, quit smoking, stop biting nails, get rid of old bad habits
Improve mental well-being: think positive, laugh more often, enjoy life
Improve finances: get out of debt, save money, make small investments
Improve career: perform better at current job, get a better job, establish own business
Improve education: improve grades, get a better education, learn something new (such as a foreign language or music), study often, read more books, improve talents
Improve self: become more organized, reduce stress, be less grumpy, manage time, be more independent, perhaps watch less television, play fewer sitting-down video games
Take a trip
Volunteer to help others, practice life skills, use civic virtue, give to charity, volunteer to work part-time in a charity organization
Get along better with people, improve social skills, enhance social intelligence
Make new friends
Spend quality time with family members
Settle down, get engaged/get married, have kids
Pray more, be more spiritual
Be more involved in sports or different activities
Spend less time on social media (such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr etc.)

4. Your New Year’s Resolutions
Think about what your New Year’s Resolutions might be….

5. Why more people are using libraries
Each week TFTD will look at a recent news article which effects you as students and members of society. If you have any suggestions or read any relevant or interesting articles, please speak to Mrs Richards to get them included.
Why more people are using libraries
Local libraries have seen visitor numbers grow to more than 1.2 million last year, bucking the previous national trend which saw footfall drop by 10 million since 2016/17. They see children doing homework, parents chatting, jobseekers using the computers and students making use of the free wi-fi.
Earlier this month, new figures from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (Cipfa) - which are based on responses from 81% of councils in England, Wales and Scotland - suggested more than 120 libraries closed last year.
This is frustrating as libraries can be used for many things….anyone can set up their own community group there for nothing, on top of the busy timetable of activities run by the library ranging from careers workshops to coding lessons. While it's clear the building is much more than just a place to borrow books, having so many groups based there helps boost reading.
When interviewed, local librarians said;
"We encourage the children to take books home," she says.
"And when their parents - who might not have read a book since college - come to pick them up, they register and take out books too."
A recent study suggested people aged were the group most likely to use libraries in England, while the number of young visitors has increased over the past five years.
Tolu, 16, visits twice a week after school to do her homework and revise for exams. "I can't really study at home because it's too noisy and my family are always asking me to do things," she says. Librarians also point out many people in the area don't have a computer at home. One in 10 UK households still don't have internet access, according to the Office of National Statistics. One woman, who is unemployed, tells me she visits the library every day to apply for jobs because she can't afford wi-fi or a smartphone.
It is argued that funding cuts are to blame for falling visitor numbers. "It's fundamentally about the quality of the offer and that does come back to money.“ Local authority spending on libraries fell by £30m in the last year, according to Cipfa. "Libraries have faced significant cuts under austerity, with councils forced to reduce spending on all 'non-essential' services across the board," the accountancy body's chief executive Rob Whiteman said.
Do you use the school library or the one in your local community? If not then pay it a little visit.