New Year Resolutions

It’s time to remove the Christmas hats and start to light the fireworks. The days are counting down before 2013 comes to a close and the big 2014 starts. With a new year knocking on our door, we are sure to welcome an improved and better us by making New Year resolutions.

Yet again, we scribble down the changes we are about to make for ourselves on a piece of paper. The funny thing is, those changes we vow to make might not probably last for a month. We find ourselves going back to our old ways, old tradition, and old us. That is definitely not a pretty picture to look at.

I’d like to share a few tips on how to create effective New Year resolutions. Hopefully with these, we get to actually enact them in the long run.

Think Realistic

Think realistic. There are many promises we make to ourselves that don’t really push through. We get upset, depressed or even worse, furious when we don’t reach our own goals. Begin the year right by making promises that you think you can reach within your own time. Don’t rush things when they don’t go in your way.

Think Minimal

How many resolutions do we make that we don’t get to accomplish by the end of the year? A good guess is probably a lot. The possible reason for that is because we make too many resolutions that we could even count. Try creating at most 10 resolutions. The less they are, the more you can focus on them.

Think Systematic

A good example for this is the resolution of losing weight. When we say that we will lose weight, we don’t think of how we can actually achieve that. There should be specific criteria on how we can obtain one thing. Going back to the example, the criteria to lose weight is the amount of time to exercise and the calories to obtain. When we make resolutions, further expand it by looking for ways on how to obtain them.

Think Positive

This will bring us back to the first tip of thinking realistically. Sure, there are resolutions we’d like to reach that seem impossible. However, optimism can bring us halfway from reaching them.

Writing resolutions is never just once a year. We can make them whenever we want. We only happen to do that during New Year’s Eve because it sounds fitting to do so. But let us not give ourselves the notion that we can postpone the changes that will give us a fun and better life. The best tip among all that were given is this: start now.