It's time for your New Year's resolution. Are you ready? What have you decided to do, or not to this year? I have participated in this custom many years, and, I have to be honest, I've always failed. Keeping up a promise, even to myself, for an entire year is difficult. So, why do we do this to ourselves? This tradition is setting us up to fail at the beginning of the year.
I can just hear myself on January 2nd: 'Why did I eat that second cookie? I was supposed to lose weight this year. I set myself one goal this year. One. Yet I couldn't even fulfill it. Now the new theme for the year is failure.' Okay, so maybe that's a little farfetched, but my point stands.
To correct this problem, let's modernize it with a touch of reality. We shall now have a 'New Year's Day Resolution.' I know I can manage that. Then I can proudly admit "I did it! I lost an ounce on New year's Day!'
So, I urge you. Set the year up right with a dose of success. Give yourself a one day resolution.
I wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year!
I can just hear myself on January 2nd: 'Why did I eat that second cookie? I was supposed to lose weight this year. I set myself one goal this year. One. Yet I couldn't even fulfill it. Now the new theme for the year is failure.' Okay, so maybe that's a little farfetched, but my point stands.
To correct this problem, let's modernize it with a touch of reality. We shall now have a 'New Year's Day Resolution.' I know I can manage that. Then I can proudly admit "I did it! I lost an ounce on New year's Day!'
So, I urge you. Set the year up right with a dose of success. Give yourself a one day resolution.
I wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year!
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