What exactly is a “New Year Resolution”? Is it a chance to change yourself? A chance to better yourself? A chance to start over? Rumor has it, a “New Year Resolution” is a commitment one makes for reforming, whether that reformation is a lifestyle change, habit, relationship or something else that you always beat yourself up about.
Quite frankly, I call the idea of making a “New Year Resolution” a bunch of BS. Why? Well for starters I bet every one of those new faces in the gym will not be there in a month or so. Or how many of you decided you were going to cut back on your spending and then half a year later you go into withdrawals and find yourself on a shopping binge? What is the point in making this big resolution if it is not actually going to help you in the long run? What is the point in jumping on this bandwagon of “new year, new start” when really, every morning when you step out of bed is a chance for a new start?
Here is a New Year Resolution I am going to throw at you. How about you vow to better yourself everyday? The solution to making “New Year Resolutions” stick is to not wake up the next morning of the New Year and decide that it is the time to organize your entire office for the first time in months, only for it to become a mess again in a few weeks. But the solution is to take every day as a fresh slate. To wake up in March and say “It is a new day. I am going to make this day count.” And maybe, just maybe, you will like this new attitude you got going on and it will stick. Not because you made this huge lofty goal to go from couch potato to body builder at the strike of midnight, but because you were ready, recognized the flaw and dedicated to make that change in your life.
So, my fellow reader, here is my solution to your “New Year Resolution”- Do what you have to do to be your best. Whether its January 1st, 2013 or May 8, 2013, a new day is another chance to reform. If you really want to create change in your life, you will find your own motivation within to start and keep it going. All it takes is some heart, not a mantra.