Does the beginning of a new year make you think about your life, what you accomplished last year, and what you wish to do next year?
Do you feel the urge to make New Year’s resolutions?
We all want to believe that the upcoming year would be a great year, but would it? A lot of people believe so.
We start the year with great promises, but in the long run, resolutions fail.
If we fail to carry out our resolution, we might create stress and anxiety in the long term.
Why is this so?
Do You Make New Year Resolutions?
You can make resolutions on the eve of the New Year, and you can make resolutions at any other time.
It is usual to make resolutions on the New Year, maybe because of the force of habit or tradition or because everybody does at this time of the year.
Make useful and reasonable resolutions, and stick to them until you accomplish them. What’s the use of making them and not carrying them out?
The rules for making resolutions and carrying them out are the same, whether made on the eve of the New Year or at any other time of the year.
What Kind of New Year Resolutions Do We Make?
Here are a few examples of resolutions we might make.
- Rresolutions to lose weight.
- We promise ourselves and our friends and family to change any bad habit we might have.
- We promise to show more acts of kindness to people.
- If we are lonely, we make a decision to meet new people.
- We plan smart goals
- We might promise ourselves to start a new hobby.
- People promise themselves to achieve their goal, about which they have been daydreaming for a long time.
When Do We Make Resolutions?
The urge to make resolutions arises not only at the New Year but also at other times in response to specific situations or events.
You might watch a movie or read a book that strongly impacts you, making you want to make changes in your life. Sometimes, something or someone might inspire you to achieve a certain goal.
You might make resolutions in these situations and then begin enthusiastically to carry them out.
The problem is that the emotions calm down after a while, enthusiasm wanes away, and you might quit what you started.
We often make resolutions and promises to act in a certain way, improve our habits or life, behave in a particular way, study, look for a new job, or search for a partner.
We even start acting according to our resolutions, but this goes on only for a short while.
People often start with much noise but end in silence. People make resolutions enthusiastically and optimistically but then lose their enthusiasm and stop doing what they promised themselves to do.
Why We Don’t Follow Through with Resolutions?
Why do we not follow our New Year resolutions and other promises we make?
1. Most resolutions are triggered by emotions and not by common sense and reason. When it comes to action, we often discover that the resolution is too big, requires too much work, or that we do not really care about it.
2. We often expect immediate results, and if we don’t get them quickly, we quit.
3. A resolution made on the spur of the moment, triggered by emotion, is often short-lived.
4. Our habits and mindset stand in the way of fulfilling resolutions, especially when the resolution requires changing habits, learning new skills, or doing something new.
When starting on a new path or deciding to make changes and improvements, you need to give the matter some time and thinking.
Why start a new venture only to quit after a while? If you keep doing so, it will become a habit, and you might leave everything you start doing.
Before making any decision, you must be sure you want to carry it out and that it will improve your life. You also need to be sure that it will not harm anyone. Then, gather all your inner strength to persevere and to accomplish it.
How to Improve Our Chances of Fulfilling Our Resolutions?
You can increase your chances to follow your New Year resolutions and those you make at any other time of the year.
1. First, you must ensure that making a particular resolution is good and beneficial for you.
2. Use your common sense and ask yourself whether you really want to follow and fulfill this resolution.
3. It’s great to be enthusiastic, but a resolution also requires common sense and thinking, planning self-discipline and perseverance.
4. Start with simple resolutions, and when you accomplish them, move to greater resolutions.
5. Write down your resolutions and read them every day.
6. You need some degree of willpower and self-discipline to carry out resolutions. This is a skill you can develop and improve.
7. When you feel you are about to quit, remember the benefits of going through with your New Year resolution and how it will change your life.
8. Visualization and affirmations can also help.
9. Realize that sometimes, priorities change; therefore, You might discover that a particular decision you made is not necessary anymore.
Make New Year resolutions, but remember that they are not limited just to the New Year. You can make them at any time.
