With the advent of another New Year comes excitement, joy, increasing age, more maturity (hopefully) and of course, the indubitable New Year’s Resolution. A New Year's resolution is a secular tradition, prevalent in mostly the Western Hemisphere but also in some parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, wherein a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement.
Many set some hasty life-changing goals, while others spurn the whole idea of New Year’s resolution. Although it’s understandable why some people may not completely find a New Year’s resolution motivating or thrilling, we still advocates making some resolutions of your own in either case. It’s true that some may conceive such resolutions as merely an excuse of making false promises to ourselves that spuriously lead
our deluded minds into believing that, by some miracle, we may just be able achieve all our goals by the end of the year. But it’s also true that while we may not achieve all our goals, we may still be motivated enough to fulfil one or two.
Hey, that’s always a start! If by some stroke of ill-fortune we end up not living up to or fulfilling any of our resolutions (guilty!), at least we’ll have evidence of how lazy and irresponsible we’ve become and how little we’ve accomplished over the course of a year so it galvanizes us to do better the year after at the advent of another New Year. And if even the year after doesn’t cut it, then there’s always another New Year (we can always hope).
My best piece of advice to you pertaining to the New Year’s resolutions is: don’t set unrealistic goals for yourself (like dieting and losing 50 pounds in the span of a year; finding the cure to cancer; or diving off the cliff of Mount Everest and then expecting to land safely on your two feet). Take baby steps down the path of self-improvement and set benchmarks every year so that it’s easier and more convenient to mould into the person you envision yourself to become, even if it takes a bit longer. This way, you won’t have another thing to beat yourself up when you fail to realise your resolutions. Trust me; life gives you enough reasons to beat yourself up without us having to add resolutions to our list of failures in life.
As the buzz of the New Year unfolds, try not to sulk about how big of a failure 2014 was for you or how bad you are at keeping your resolutions, but instead try to embrace the New Year with positivity and even stronger resolve. Champs21.com wishes you a very happy New Year and Happy New Resolutions!