I forgot to include those two in my New Year’s list:

To resume attending weekly sangha meeting at Insight Meditation Center. This will help me keep up my practice. The Buddha said one needs 3 things to stay on the path: Buddha (teacher), Dharma (teachings), Sangha (community). While online communities can help, they cannot replace a live sangha, and making face to face connections with other practitioners of mindfulness.

To draw from the dharma source often, every day if possible. By source, I mean reading the Buddha’s (Middle) Discourses. I like to pick a topic that is relevant to my mental state for that day. So much of contemporary mental health is watered down dharma, that it is missing many of the important subtleties of the often unacknowledged foundational wisdom. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a good example of such reductive method for mind afflictions.