As another year rolls around, we often turn our thoughts to resolutions and personal goals, which typically includes promising to give up something. Whether it’s smoking, cookies and ice cream, or sleeping in (so you can hit the gym or the neighborhood running track), such resolutions frequently have a negative connotation, even though they are associated with positive outcomes.
Rather than focusing on eliminating things from our lives, what if we made a list of things not to give up? Here’s what you should keep in your life in 2017.

Chocolates from Bologna, Italy at the Ospitalita Italiana event at the Metropolitan Pavillion in Manhattan, New York, Sept. 24, 2014. Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times