New Year's resolutions become one of the most talked about and prevalent topics as each year begins to wrap up. Companies begin to advertise their products as something that can help you achieve your resolution goals. Infinite amounts of list are generated for people to use as inspirations for resolutions. Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, questions of your New Year's Resolutions come up.
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While resolutions are typically set for a positive improvement to our lives, could they actually be creating false hopes that eventually diminish the "new year, new me" spirit?
Looking at some of the most popular resolution goals people set for themselves, you generally find health and wellness changes, personal economic changes, relationship changes, etc. The commonality among these resolution topics is that they have the capability of being changed or improved at any time of the year, not just the beginning of the new year.
If these goals are so important and seemingly crucial for someone to accomplish, why are they waiting only till this specific time to do so? Wouldn't they just start them right when they feel there is a problem arising?
Health changes, being one of the top resolutions, have the least follow through. People may spend a week or two with the plans they have set up, but don't see the immediate changes that they are looking for and get discouraged, and almost instantly, stop. The goal gets put on the back burner for next year's resolutions.
The resolutioner is left disappointed in themselves and unhappy.
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We set these "New Year's Resolutions" to bring our spirits up and build a better, more positive life for ourselves. But in the end, we end up right back to where we were before or even less so.
Now I am not trying to be the Scrooge of New Year's Resolutions, but why should you have to wait till the end of the year to start working towards your goals? Go ahead and set your "New Year's goals," but start working towards them before January 1st. For something you feel is so important, you shouldn't put it off. Have your new routine set before the new year comes around and you will already be on your way to checking that list off. Not saving it in a Word document for next New Years.
There is no reason why you have to follow the unwritten rule that New Year's resolutions have to begin on January 1st. Break the stigma and start bettering yourself immediately. The more you put off your goals, the harder is getting to start them. Take your list and run with it.
