New Year’s Resolutions

These are just a few thoughts of mine about making a New Year’s resolution and what should be done with such resolutions

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Every year people throughout the world make New Year’s resolutions about this or about that and I read somewhere that about 88% of all New Year’s resolutions will fail. I don’t know about you but that seems like an awfully large percentage to fail. This year I decided to make a resolution that I would keep. My resolution would be simple, to the point and easy to uphold. It would also be one that would be of great benefit to me and would help improve my outlook on life and would help to improve about how I felt about myself. This would not be a resolution that I would make and then fail in. Doing such resolutions only damage your self worth.

As such, this years New Year’s resolution is simply that I will no longer make any further resolutions on New Year’s day. Instead, I will simply live my life to the fullest, try my best and do my best to be a better person. I will do all this and more without any promises. I will simply do the best I can with what I have.

At this point you might be saying to yourself “OH COME ON, HOW IS THIS OF GREAT BENEFIT TO YOU?“ Well, let me answer that question with a few questions to you. How does failure make you feel? Do you feel good about yourself? Do you feel like a winner? When we make spur of the moment resolutions that are impossible to keep and then you fail to keep them it lowers our self worth and it makes us feel worthless. When that happens we often give up on our goal instead of trying harder to do better. For example, the person who makes a New Years resolution to loose 20 pounds and then is only able to loose 10 now feels so guilty and totally worthless and instead of feeling good about loosing 10 pounds, which they should, they end up feeling worthless, go on an eating binge and then end up gaining 10 pounds. So now instead of starting at a weight of 190 and ending up weighing 180, they now end up weighing 200.

So instead of making these impossible New Year’s resolutions that are impossible to keep go out and simply do your best. Go out and set some goals that are possible to achieve. If you only get half way there then be happy on your partial success and then try and do better the next time. Just keep on trudging along and do the best you can with what you have. You are a beautiful person. Know that, think that and embrace it. Happy New Years to everyone out there. May your journey in life be a happy one and full of the greatness that is you.