new years resolutions and what not.
so it is the first month of the new year, have you made your resolution yet? i fail to see the point. i have made countless resolutions over the years and have yet to actually keep any of them. lets start out with a little statistic:
| 40 to 45% of American adult make one or more resolutions each year.
Among the top new years resolutions are resolutions about weight loss, exercise, and stopping to smoke. Also popular are resolutions dealing with better money management / debt reduction. The following shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on: http://www.proactivechange.com/motivation/resolutions/research.htm |
my resolutions have ranged from finishing knitting projects to learn a new language and from the traditional stop smoking and lose weight to spend more time with my family…i have never kept any of them for the long term.
all a resolution is is a long term goal set in the new year. why do you have to wait for the new year to set goals? i understand that a new year means so called new beginnings but making goals because you “have to” is not much incentive to keep them as opposed to making goals because you want to make yourself a better person. i call for the abolishment of the new years resolution. it just causes more stress and you feel a lot more guilty if you fail to keep it. only make goals because you want to not just because its the new year. you will feel better about yourself and will probally be more likely to keep it.
