Do You Make New Year’s Resolutions?

My New Year’s resolution should have been to stop kidding myself that I’ll make a lifestyle change this year. No one likes cheap, skinny, sober bitch anyway.

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I never make New Year’s Resolutions. It seems pointless really. If there’s something that I want to do, I just get on with it. I’ve never understood the point in waiting for January 1^st. Considering how low the follow through is with New Year’s Resolutions (only 8% of people who made resolutions actually achieved their resolution), it’s really setting yourself up for defeat; but that doesn’t seem to stop many people from doing it anyways.

Here were the Top 10 Resolutions for 2015 (according to the Statistic Brain Research Institute). I’m sure that you won’t be surprised; these themes don’t seem to change from year to year. Let’s be realistic, everyone wants to lose weight, have more money, fall in love…

1. Lose weight
2. Get organized
3. Spend less, save more
4. Enjoy life to the fullest
5. Staying fit and healthy
6. Learn something exciting
7. Quit smoking
8. Help others in their dreams
9. Fall in love
10. Spend more time with family

If you’re serious about your New Year’s Resolutions, here are some tips from Psychology Today to help you succeed: 

1. Focus on one resolution, rather several and set realistic, specific goals. Losing weight is not a specific goal. Losing 10 pounds in 90 days would be
2. Don't wait till New Year's Eve to make resolutions. Make it a year long process, every day
3. Take small steps. Many people quit because the goal is too big requiring too much effort and action all at once
4. Have an accountability buddy, someone close to you to whom you have to report          
5. Celebrate your success between milestones. Don't wait the goal to be finally completed
6. Focus your thinking on new behaviors and thought patterns. You have to create new neural pathways in your brain to change habits
7. Focus on the present. What's the one thing you can do today, right now, towards your goal?
8. Be mindful. Become physically, emotionally and mentally aware of your inner state as each external event happens, moment-by-moment, rather than living in the past or future

 

I don’t call them New Year’s resolutions. I prefer the term, “casual promises to myself that I am under no legal obligation to fulfill”.

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Geri