A promise stated by many, kept by a few, the phrase “New Year, New Me” is one of the most commonly used terms around the end of the year. It’s an interesting notion that everyone waits toward the end of the year to reform themselves, but it makes sense because it’s an easy place and time to restart. New Year, New Me is a highly motivating phrase, making anyone who listens to it to aspire to greatness for themselves. Things such as becoming more physically fit, working harder at their jobs, and setting other personal goals are very common. Unfortunately, many of those goals are not met. You tend to just wander off or get distracted from it. It happens to the best of us. We just need to figure out how to stay on track.
Everyone’s got that bigger picture in his or her mind. Literally everyone. Some people don’t know how to get there, and for some of the luckier people, they know exactly how to get what they want. I figured out you need to set smaller goals. 2016, like every year, has a lot of unforeseen potential, as well as a ridiculous amount of obstacles, but that’s just life. It’s your choice, I realized, to either complain about not reaching your goals or at least try. I've still got stuff to work on and it's going to take some time to get there, but to try and fail is much better than not trying at all. Or you can go the more lighthearted route like my friend, Omar. New Year, New Me has been warped to his liking in recent weeks. He owes you money? Sorry, friend but his response would be “New Year, New Me.” He doesn’t know who you are in the New Year, therefore he owes you nothing. Try to hit him up to reconnect and he doesn’t like you? Again, you’ve struck out pal. You are left behind in the past.
At the bottom of it, this New Year, New Me stuff is just a saying. You don’t have to try to improve yourself if you don’t want to. But who doesn’t want a better year if they’ve got the opportunity to have one? I’ll take every chance to be a better man (or even a funnier man, like Omar) because it’s a chance to be better. Who wouldn’t want that? I’m willing to take those baby steps to reach my bigger goals. Things like being better with friends, being more physically fit, being more financially responsible and being more academically successful are a few of my own goals. They’re important to me and I would do a lot to make those goals a reality and if starting off working on the new me works beginning on January 1, so be it. I’m ready.
